- Children and Families, Health
Gender-based violence (GBV), including intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence, is a public health priority that requires comprehensive public health solutions.
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- Gender-Based Violence
One out of every three women worldwide will be abused during her lifetime. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation, a public health epidemic, and a barrier to solving global challenges such as extreme poverty, HIV and AIDS, and violent conflict.
- Domestic Violence, Immigrant Survivors, Sexual Assault, Victim Services, Youth/Teen Dating Violence
PASSED! On September 13, 1994, Congress passed a groundbreaking law called the Violence Against Women Act. The bill finally put the full force of the federal government into efforts to stop domestic violence and sexual assault and help victims. Since then, it has provided the funds for a national network of shelters and rape crisis centers, services and supports for victims, training and education, and reshaped our criminal justice system. Since its passage, domestic violence against adult women has declined 64 percent.
- Girls
Call On Your Members Of Congress To Cosponsor The Girls Lead Act
Let’s resolve to help create a world without bias, stereotypes and discrimination – a world in which all women are free and equal and all of us can live in peace. There’s never been a more important moment to take a stand. Watch our video of advocates, friends, strangers and community members from all over the world commit to breaking the bias.
- Children & Youth, Coaching Boys Into Men, Sports for Development
In 2022 Pact enlisted Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) is to implement the Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) program throughout Tanzania by way of technical assistance and guidance working with local civil society organizations (CSO’s) in six regions of the country.
- Gender-Based Violence
Contact your congressmember and tell them to vote yes on the Safe from the Start Act!
Click here to contact YOUR individual congressmember and send a pre-written message urging them to pass this important bill. It’s easy, takes one minute, and makes a huge difference. Thank YOU for your help!
- Children and Families
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act is the cornerstone of the nation’s efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. First passed in 1974, CAPTA provides grants to states to prevent child abuse and neglect, improve how systems respond to it and funds small amounts of training and research on how to reduce maltreatment.
- Children and Families, Domestic Violence, Victim Services, Youth/Teen Dating Violence
Since its original passage in 1984, FVPSA has served over 1.3 million domestic violence victims and their children during one of the most vulnerable points in their lives. FVPSA provides critical funding that survivors rely on for domestic violence services such as housing, emergency shelter, transportation, childcare, and medical and legal counseling. Survivors and their families cannot wait for Congress to reauthorize this critical legislation!
- Children and Families, Domestic Violence, Economic Opportunity
This brief details the importance of domestic violence survivors having access to affordable, reliable, and flexible child care. Research shows that the inability to access affordable, reliable, and flexible child care can keep survivors out of the workforce, force them to remain with abusive partners for financial stability, and endanger the health, safety, and wellbeing of their children.
- Children & Youth, Gender-Based Violence, Sports for Development
In April of 2022, the Attorneys General Association and Basketball Africa League / NBA (BAL4HER) invited FUTURES to the BAL tournament taking place in Cairo, Egypt, to introduce the vital tenets of advancing allyship of professional athletes towards women and girls in their communities.
- Afghanistan, Emergency Response
Violent conflict, a devastating drought, and food insecurity affecting over half the population in Afghanistan are driving one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Assessments indicate this emergency will exponentially grow as Afghanistan’s economy teeters on the edge of total collapse and the country remains almost entirely dependent on external aid. Urgent action is needed to address the looming famine and avert a humanitarian catastrophe that will impact women and girls and other marginalized groups the most.
