Attorney General Eric Holder recently spoke at the Tribal Nations Listening Session on Public Safety and Law Enforcement, a conference sponsored by the Department of Justice in St. Paul, Minnesota. He talked about some new initiatives the DOJ will undertake to help reduce violence on native lands.
From the Star Tribune: [...]
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Reducing Tribal Violence
Domestic Violence Funding
While our economic troubles are taking their toll on the budgets of non-profits and public agencies, there is news of domestic violence funding remaining the same under the Obama administration.
In related news, we found this very useful link from the U.S. Department of Justice about how the recovery funds are being spent. [...]
Domestic Violence in the News
In Texas, Vice President Joe Biden visited the National Domestic Violence Hotline Center and talked about funding. From the Dallas News:
Money from the federal economic stimulus package is being made available to the National Domestic Violence Hotline Center and a teen abuse dating hotline, (Biden) said. The investment helps saves hospital costs [...]
Good News
The Avon Foundation for Women announced they will be giving money to help fight violence against women worldwide.
Washington, DC (March 3, 2009) /PRNewswire/ — One in three women worldwide experience violence in their lifetime, and in the U.S., a woman is assaulted every nine seconds. Around the world, services for victims are often vastly underfunded [...]
