While he notes the inexcusable inaction by Congress to extend the Violence Against Women Act or to pass the International Violence Against Women Act, he could have added that because of Senate inaction, the United States is one of only seven countries that have not yet ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Drones can extend targeted violence into countries with which the U.S. is not at war.
On Wednesday, women from both parties raced to hold news conferences in which they promoted bills (or in the Republicans' case, a germ of a bill) that would extend the Violence Against Women Act, replete with upsetting personal anecdotes meant to demonstrate the need for reauthorization, if not bipartisanship in seeking it.
-- ISIS now demonstrates both the intent and the ability to extend its violence, its "retribution," well outside its desert arena.
Like many of today's so-called jihadists, it was not though about the presented enemy but rather being able to extend their violence in the realm of a war, justified or not, waged against soldier or civilian.
It would increase the availability of free legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, extend the definition of violence against women to include stalking, and provide training for civil and criminal court personnel to deal with families with a history of violence.
WASHINGTON -- Despite a late-stage intervention by Vice President Joe Biden, House Republican leaders failed to advance the Senate's 2012 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, an embattled bill that would have extended domestic violence protections to 30 million LGBT individuals, undocumented immigrants and Native American women.
When it extends to violence or cross-fertilises with radical ideologies, second-generation angst is a serious problem.
In recent months, Brown spoke out in favor of allowing women in combat, supported extending the Violence Against Women Act and was one of the strongest Republican voices condemning Rush Limbaugh's derogatory comments about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.
But Vote for Marriage NC has failed to mention that on 27 separate occasions, lower courts in Ohio assumed they were barred from extending domestic violence legal protections to those couples before the state's Supreme Court definitively resolved the issue.
