President Bush today signed into law U.S. Senator Joe Biden’s (D DE) Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 2005. The legislation increases funding for women’s shelters and law enforcement training and also focuses on other crucial aspects of domestic violence and sexual assault, such as treating children impacted by violence, enhancing health care for rape victims, holding repeat offenders and high-tech stalkers accountable, and easing housing problems for battered women.

See the full release here.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 5th, 2006 at 3:27 pm and is filed under general. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Also, you can trackback from your own site.