While there was plenty of talk during the presidential debates about the equality of women, one group remained unmentioned and invisible: immigrant women who suffer in silence at the hands […]
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Abused Undocumented Immigrants Fear Speaking Up
A recent op-ed on Fox News’ Latino website, describes first-hand how abused undocumented women fear speaking up because of risk of deportation.There is help for these women though, either through […]
Read MoreViolence Against Women Act Celebrates 18th Anniversary
This year marks the 18th anniversary of former President Clinton signing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) into law. This law, which was authored by then-Senator Joe Biden, is currently […]
Read MoreVAWA Reauthorization: Myths & Facts
The Violence Against Women Act is currently up for the reauthorization by Congress, but the conference committee has yet to meet to decide to reauthorize VAWA and they only have […]
Read MoreUpdate on Proposed Editions to Violence Against Women Act
HRI has been closely watching the developments as Congress attempts to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which is the basis of the protections afforded to HRI’s immigrant victims […]
Read MoreAbused Immigrants Count Too
Bill Holston and Chris Mansour co-wrote an editorial for the Dallas Morning News:
Read MoreProposed VAWA Bill Guts Protections to Abused Immigrant Women
Some members of the House of Representatives have proposed changes to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that could have disastrous consequences for the abused immigrant women Human Rights Initiative […]
Read MoreChanges to VAWA Could Backtrack Years of Progress
Since 1994 Congress has worked in a bi-partisan fashion to protect victims of domestic violence and sexual assault by enacting the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and then reauthorizing it […]
Read MoreViolence Against Women’s Act to be Considered for Reauthorization on February 2nd
The Violence Against Women’s Act is a law that has been in effect since 1994 and has been reauthorized by both President Clinton in 2000 and President Bush in 2005. […]
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