The blog about Social Issues
From the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Website:
May 18th is HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD). This annual observance is a day to recognize and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective HIV vaccine. It is also a day to [...]
Here’s something we got via an Email Tip: The group, Mother’s of Lost Children will hold a silent vigil in front of the Whitehouse on Mother’s Day. From their press release:
MOTHERS OF LOST CHILDREN TO GATHER FOR
WHITE HOUSE VIGIL ON MOTHERS DAY
12 Noon Press Conference with Grieving Moms from Across America
Mothers from [...]
Here’s an interesting article we found on Huffington Post by Tom Perrelli, Associate Attorney General of the United States. He talks about the important role colleges and Universities play in helping end Sexual Assault.
September 2009 marked the 15 year anniversary of President Bill Clinton signing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) into law. [...]
Here’s a story we found via NPR, about the making the Facebook experience safer for young people:
The head of Britain’s online child protection agency met with Facebook executives Monday in Washington to try to convince them to embed his agency’s “panic button” on the site’s pages, so children can report any disturbing contacts [...]
Click the image to visit the website of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center for more information about Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Heres’s an an update of a previous story, France: Move to Make Emotional Abuse a Crime.
From The New York Times:
France’s National Assembly approved Thursday night a proposal to add “psychological violence” to a law intended to help victims of physical violence and abuse, despite doubts that the law is specific enough to have [...]
Found via the Feminist Daily News:
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) reprimanded her colleagues in a floor speech Thursday for their two-month-long hold on the confirmation of Judge Susan Carbon as the Director of the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW). President Barack Obama first nominated Carbon to be director of the [...]
We found this encouraging story at Alternet
Finally some good news for a change! According to a congressionally mandated study, child abuse has significantly declined since the early 1990s.
How much of a decline are we looking at? Physical, sexual and emotional abuse combined dropped 26 percent between 1993 and 2006, and when you [...]
From the Whiie House Blog:
The White House’s Commitment to Combating Violence Against Women
Lynn Rosenthal, February 2, 2010
For six months now, I have held the first-ever White House position dedicated to combating violence and sexual assault against women and continuing the important work of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Every morning when I’ve walked into [...]
Found via Care2.com: First lady Michelle Obama talks about the growing problem of childhood Obesity in the United States.
“Medical experts have warned that our children are on track to be less healthy than we are.” – First Lady Michelle Obama
We should be ashamed of that fact.
Michelle Obama is leading the charge against childhood obesity. We’ve [...]
