The new VAWA includes the Closing the Law Enforcement Consent Loophole Act, which makes it a crime for a federal law enforcement officer to engage in a sexual act with anyone in their custody or while exercising their authority, regardless of consent.
originally appeared in The Daily Hampshire Gazette. It has been republished with permission.
One out of every six American women has experienced an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime . of women report experiencing unwanted sexual attention, sexual coercion, sexually crude conduct or sexist comments in the workplace. Women face sexual coercion and abuse in housing, online, in politics and on the street. Rates of sexualized violence are particularly high among young women, women of color, low-income women, disabled women and trans women. But change may soon be coming.
, which passed Congress as part of the 2022 fiscal year appropriations package. VAWA was last reauthorized in 2013, but expired in December 2018 due to Republican efforts to block the measure. VAWA funds crisis lines, counseling, victim assistance, emergency shelters and legal services for survivors throughout the country. Locally, VAWA funds
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