Bangladesh will also develop a National Action Plan on Violence Against Women to strengthen enforcement of its 2010 Domestic Violence Act.
Or the woman who became a critical force in combating domestic violence, helping to pass the Violence Against Women act in 1994?
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As a goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Kidman drew attention to the stalled International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), a domestic effort to address violence against women globally.
While a member of the Judiciary Committee, Biden authored the Violence against Women Act of 2000, which is seen as a major weapon against domestic violence and gender-based crimes.
Since the passage of the Act, annual incidents of domestic violence have dropped by more than 60 percent.
Vice President Joe Biden, who helped spearhead the original Violence Against Women Act in 1994 when he was a U.S. senator, said Thursday that domestic violence dropped by 64% since then.
The Vice President spoke movingly about the changes that have occurred since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act but also reminded us that three women a day still die as a result of domestic violence.
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Originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized since, the act provides support for organizations that serve domestic violence victims.
In the 2005 reauthorization, Congress once again strengthened the Act to improve the health care response to domestic violence, to include a new focus on prevention, and to expand protections for children exposed to violence.
Supporters credit the act with sharply reducing the number of lives lost to domestic violence over the past two decades.
Through the Affordable Care Act, women in many health plans will have access to domestic violence screening and counseling as a preventative service without co-payments, deductibles or other cost-sharing.
For the past 18 years, since Vice President Biden initially wrote the Act in 1994, VAWA has helped to decrease the rates of domestic violence across the country.
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