Last week the U.S. Congress approved legislation that gives more women legal recourse and better services against instances of abuse. President Obama is to sign the bill into law Thursday.
The Violence Against Women Act was first enacted in 1994, and was reauthorized in 2000 and again in 2005. Current authorization was left to expire in 2011. For more than a year, Congress has stalled on its re-enactment primarily because it has been broadened to include Native American women living on reservations, immigrant women and gays and lesbians.
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Violence against women affects an entire community
