Biden introduces I-VAWA

Submitted by Kargan303 on Tue, 2007-11-06 15:25

Folks, we need to fight this. Release here. Excerpt:

'BIDEN/LUGAR Introduce the International Violence Against Women Act Groundbreaking Legislation Integrates U.S. Efforts to End Gender-Based Violence on a Global Scale

Washington, DC –Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) and Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN) introduced the International Violence Against Women Act, groundbreaking legislation which will, for the first time, integrate the United States’ efforts to end gender-based violence into U.S. foreign assistance programs.
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One in three women worldwide will experience gender-based violence in her lifetime, and in some countries, that’s true for 70 percent of women. Every day around the globe, women and girls face domestic violence, rape, forced or child marriage, so-called “honor” killings, dowry-related murder, human trafficking, and female genital mutilation. The United Nations estimates that at least 5,000 “honor” killings take place each year around the world and more than 130,000,000 girls and young women worldwide have been subjected to genital mutilation. A 2006 United Nations Report found that at least 102 member states had no specific laws on domestic violence.'

Also submitted by MANN user MrReality:

'The article states: "Feminists have cooked up a new plan to raid the U.S. Treasury for more feminist pork. They want Congress to pass the International Violence Against Women Act.

They are using a report issued in October by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called "In-Depth Study on All Forms of Violence Against Women." The report is said to be based on interviews with 24,000 women conducted by the World Health Organization.

Who better to introduce the act than Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., the leading advocate of ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women? Biden never saw a U.N. treaty or a radical feminist spending bill that he didn't like.

The WHO report asserts that one in three of the world's women, in some countries as many as 70 percent, experience violence in their lifetime, usually from their own partner, which is the rationale for calling it domestic violence. I'm surprised feminists don't claim 100 percent, because "violence" is broadly defined to include nonphysical "psychological and economic" actions."'

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The US really should stop putting innocent men on death row before dictating policy to the rest of the world.

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Submitted by Sosickoftheirlies on Thu, 2007-11-08 01:30

You don't need a study to confirm that nearly 100% of the military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan are in violent situations...

But Congress isn't too worried about that. Why? Because the feminists don't give a shit.

It's mostly men over there.

I love the "hot button" topics that they chose to report on: "Honor" killings and genital mutilation (aka female circumcision). I'm sorry if I don't get weepy about 5000 killings a year WORLDWIDE! And although 130 million is a lot of people (if the stat is even accurate), in the grand scheme it's 2.2% of the population worldwide. There are much bigger issues to deal with, and as I stated on a different thread, we need to be looking at the root causes of things to actually make some headway. Treating the symptoms of a disease leaves you sick, but tired on top of it because you've been busy chasing your tail.

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Submitted by xEODGuy on Thu, 2007-11-08 08:33

Didn't Biden once brag about growing up in a household in which his sister was allowed to hit him, but he was never allowed to hit back?

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Submitted by Sosickoftheirlies on Thu, 2007-11-08 17:04