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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Announces Annual Enforcement Report Briefing and Speakers WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Commission on Civil Rights announces that it will hold a briefing in support of its annual enforcement report on sexual assault in the military on Friday, January 11, 2013. Interested members of the public are invited to attend and no prior notice is required except for special accommodation requests. DATE AND TIME:...

SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Commission on Civil Rights announces that it will hold a briefing in support of its annual enforcement report on sexual assault in the military on Friday, January 11, 2013. Interested members of the public are invited to attend and no prior notice is required except for special accommodation requests. DATE AND TIME: Friday, January 11, 2013 at 9:30 am ET PLACE: Commission...

New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman of The Perecman Firm reviews an Iowa court decision that made international news: the court ruled that an attractive dental assistant could be terminated after her boss thought she was too ‘irresistible’ to work with. She had filed a gender discrimination lawsuit following the termination. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 28, 2012 A dentist fired his assistant of 10 years because he and his wife saw her as a threat to their marriage....

NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A bipartisan congressional conference committee agreed to include Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's (D-N.H.) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013. The inclusion and passage of this bill would lift a longstanding ban on abortion coverage for military women and their dependants who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. "The inclusion of the Shaheen amendment is critical in providing servicewomen...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Strangers committed about 1.8 million nonfatal violent crimes in 2010, or about 38 percent of all nonfatal violent victimizations during the year, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This represents a 77 percent decline from 7.9 million nonfatal violent crimes committed by strangers in 1993, according to the earliest available data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). During...

DERRY, N.H., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Drawing on real-life work experience, divorce coach and author Jenna Brooks offers a unique perspective on the targets of domestic violence in her debut novel, OCTOBER SNOW. "After years of witnessing the lengths that a battered mother will go to in order to protect her children, I decided it was time to express a more accurate perspective on these women," Brooks says. "As a culture, we regard them as weak, naive, and helpless - when the...

(Boston) – In a perspective article to appear in the Nov. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health (BUSM and BUSPH) report that health-care providers can play a critical role in helping to reduce and prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by screening and referring patients to appropriate resources. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a comprehensive report on the...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Intimate partner violence declined from about 2.1 million victimizations in 1993 to around 907,000 in 2010, according to a report released today by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). This was a 64 percent decline in the rate of intimate partner violence over the 18-year data collection period. The estimates in this report are based on data from BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey, which collects...

OTTAWA, Nov. 25, 2012 /CNW/ - The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, today marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by calling on all Canadians to work together to end all forms of violence against women and girls. The Minister also took the occasion of the 100(th) Grey Cup game in Toronto to salute several members of the Canadian Football League for their efforts to end...

In the news release, Six New Plaintiffs Join Sanford Heisler's $100m Gender Discrimination Class Action Against Forest Laboratories & Forest Pharmaceuticals, issued Nov. 5, 2012 by Sanford Heisler, LLP over PR Newswire, we are advised by the law firm that the dateline should read "NEW YORK" rather than "NEWARK, N.J." as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: Six New Plaintiffs Join Sanford Heisler's $100m Gender Discrimination Class Action Against...