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First lady urges Congress to take up Violence Against Women Act

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was joined at the White House Monday by members of Congress, the Clinton Administration and law enforcement to call for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, the 1994 law intended to provide law enforcement with the tools necessary to combat domestic violence. "We are here today to send a clear message that if we want to stop violence against women ... then we must reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act now," the first lady said at the forum. Mrs. Clinton was accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, Sen. Barbara

House approves anti-crime bill to fight violence against women

The House approved a sweeping anti-crime bill Friday that includes more than $3 billion to fight violence against women and seeks to protect women brought into the U.S. by the international illegal sex trade. The catchall legislation also has provisions that would make it easier for victims to collect compensation from terrorist states and would force states to pay costs when a criminal is released from prison and commits a crime in another state. It passed 371-1 and is expected to be approved by the Senate early next week. Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act has been a top priority

Cybercrime crackdown has nabbed 150

A summerlong crackdown on cybercrime has resulted in arrests or convictions of more than 150 individuals, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Thursday. As part of a 3-month-long collaborative probe, law enforcement officials across the nation have returned 117 criminal complaints stemming from an array of scams. The common thread: The crimes involved computers and the Internet. They bilked about 150,000 victims for losses topping $215 million. "Operation Web Snare is the largest and most successful collaborative law-enforcement operation ever conducted to prosecute online fraud, stop identity theft and prevent other computer-related crimes," Ashcroft told reporters. "We do not believe the Internet to

Report: Nations are not sufficiently preventing widespread violence against women

UNITED NATIONS Nearly 60 percent of women in Ethiopia are subject to sexual violence by a partner. Domestic violence and rape account for 19 percent of disease in women in developed countries. And in Colombia, a woman is killed by an intimate partner every six days, a study from the United Nations said Tuesday. Violence against women persists at high rates around the world, and governments are not doing enough to prevent it, according to the report from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The report, which synthesized information from various studies conducted in several countries, said while violence against women has been recognized

Study Shows a Racial Divide in Domestic Violence Cases

Confirming a longstanding trend in crime and society, a new Justice Department study released yesterday shows a sharp drop in domestic murders, particularly the killings of black men by their black women partners, which fell 74 percent over the last two decades. But the report also underscored how the face of domestic violence in America has changed. Even as the number of black victims has fallen, the number of white women killed by their husbands and boyfriends in fact rose slightly, to 876 in 1998 from 849 in 1976. The report itself did not address the reasons for this discrepancy