{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://gwenmoore.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5443", "ICYMI: Congresswoman Gwen Moore Joins Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus in Honoring the 30th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act", "2024-09-13", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "WI", "Gwen Moore", "M001160", "gwenmoore.house.gov", "gwenmoore", "https://gwenmoore.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "**Watch Rep. Gwen Moore\u2019s remarks here**\n\n**Watch the full press call here**\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 On Thursday, September 12, 2024, Congresswoman Gwen Moore joined the Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus in honoring the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) via a press call. On the call, DWC Outreach Co-Chair Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Member Services Co-Chair Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and Communications Co-Chairs Gwen Moore (WI-04) and Shontel Brown (OH-11) spoke about the progress made through VAWA thus far, and the work that remains to protect women and girls from gender-based violence.\n\nWendy Chun-Hoon, Director of the Women\u2019s Bureau at the Department of Labor, also spoke about the Fostering Access, Rights, and Equity (FARE) grant initiative at the Women\u2019s Bureau, the first DOL grant program dedicated solely to supporting community-based organizations\u2019 efforts to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and harassment at work.\n\n\"We have so much more to do. It was very distressing to me to see us backslide during COVID, which demonstrates the vulnerabilities that women face. We had governors telling women to stay home where it\u2019s safe, but home was not a safe place,\u201d said Communications Co-Chair Rep. Gwen Moore (WI-04). \u201cIt is really important that we shore up the Crime Victims Fund so that our communities can be prepared when we see these upticks and we can build on the progress of VAWA until we rid our nation of gender-based violence once and for all.\u201d\n\nWe have to make sure that communities have the tools to not only react to violence, but to proactively address the root causes and understand its enduring consequences, said DWC Outreach Co-Chair Rep. Debbie Dingell (MI-06). \u201cSurvivors need housing, child care, legal assistance, counseling, food, financial assistance, and most importantly, space and time to heal physically, mentally, and emotionally.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Violence Against Women Act reminds us what\u2019s at stake [with funding the government ]... if you want to implement extreme cuts and even shut the government down, part of what\u2019s at stake is funding for women\u2019s shelters, transitional housing, funding for law enforcement to prosecute violent crimes against women, funding for training, funding for outreach, funding for education, and more,\u201d said Communications Co-Chair Rep. Shontel Brown (OH-11).\n\n\u201cThe illness, the sickness, that is violence against women and gender-based violence does not know title, it does not know geography, it does not know income, it affects all women in this country,\u201d said Member Services Co-Chair Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01). \u201cOne in four women still experience physical violence by their partner, and with the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women still impacting our communities, we must remain steadfast in the work ahead.\u201d\n\n\u201cEveryone deserves to feel safe and healthy in their homes and at work. We know that domestic violence permeates not just our personal lives but our workplaces too, and that gender-based violence and harassment is not just a safety issue, it\u2019s an economic one,\u201d said Wendy Chun-Hoon, the Director of the Women\u2019s Bureau at the Department of Labor. The Biden Harris administration has an unwavering commitment to ending gender-based violence, releasing the first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, which lays out a roadmap for a whole-of-government effort to prevent and address gender-based violence in the U.S., including at work. The Women\u2019s Bureau is committed to continuing the effort to eliminate gender-based violence in the world of work through the Fostering Access Rights, and Equity (FARE) grant.\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Gwen Moore led the 2013 reauthorization of VAWA, which strengthened tribal jurisdiction in domestic violence cases. This legislation also expanded tribal special domestic violence jurisdiction to include sexual violence, dating violence, stalking, and more. 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