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domestic violence against men
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DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) announced today that it has received a $15,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon, for the Iowa Men's Action Network's (I- MAN) efforts to address the lack of significant male participation in preventing domestic violence. I-MAN designed this project to help local domestic violence agencies engage men in their prevention work. While this project aims to engage all men, I-MAN is specifically looking to engage minority men in Iowa. As a result of the rural nature of the state and the relatively small numbers of racial/ ethnic minorities, culturally specific services and resources are often limited and difficult to access. A public education and awareness campaig...
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A Kanawha County circuit judge has voided West Virginia's regulations for domestic-violence programs, saying they discriminate by denying abused men access to publicly funded shelters and female abusers access to treatment. In a decision received Tuesday, Judge James C. Stucky said Family Protection Services Board rules for licensing domestic-violence shelters, certifying advocates and distributing state funding distort lawmakers' intent and violate the West Virginia Men & Women Against Discrimination's right to free speech.
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DAYTON -- Internationally-recognized social activist and speaker Tony Porter, addressing domestic violence to the handful of community members gathered at Omega Baptist Church on Wednesday night, acknowledged he was preaching to the choir. But that, he said, is who will make the difference to end spousal abuse and violence against women.
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FARMINGTON -- On Oct. 20 Safe Voices held its annual meeting to celebrate a year of accomplishments and recognize the work of community partners throughout Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin Counties. This year three community members and organizations were honored as Community Heroes. Jerry Cayer, executive vice president of Franklin Community Health Network, responded to the 2011 domestic violence homicides with No Excuses: A Call to Men, an initiative to engage men against domestic violence in Franklin County. He was also instrumental in offering ownership of the Farmington office building to Safe Voices free of cost.
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Representatives of the Colorado Men Against Domestic Violence Campaign Lately the media has been full of stories of men behaving harmfully within institutes of power, privilege, and prestige. While each of these incidents is deplorable, what we fail to shed light on is the cultural construct and social structure in which they occur. In each, there is a sub-story of good men who failed to act.
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TIME FOR A CHANGE System stacked against men in domestic violence cases
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From hippie to yuppie Vishu Magee came to Taos in 1970, settling here for good in 1973. "It was the vague idea of living close to the land, learning from the old ways, and creating a new life based on my '60s experiences and almost two years of spiritual search in India," Magee recalls. "It worked. I passed through the many tests of raising a family and starting a business." Magee admits that, now 35 years later, "I may look more yuppie than hippie, but I can honestly say that I have created a life and a family which upholds the integrity of what brought me here in the fi rst place." Magee continues to live the '60s ideal of promoting peace. He is a founder of MEN, Men Engaged in Nonviolence, a group of area men who have taken a stand against domestic violence in the community.
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People often mistake domestic violence for being a woman's problem," said Dennis Brown of the Unitarian Universalist Men Against Domestic Violence. "The truth is the U.S. Justice Department estimates that 90 percent of all domestic violence victims are female, and most abusers are male. That means it's time for good men to stand up and speak out against this crime.
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Two brothers were arraigned Monday on charges that they bound a woman with duct tape and beat her savagely, until she escaped and was found bloodied on New Haven Avenue, police and court officials said Monday. Police wouldn't answer any questions about the assault Monday, and only said in a terse news release that Scott Titus, 45, and Brian Titus, 47, were arrested after binding the woman and beating her near the E-Z Access self-storage facility at 540 New Haven Ave., just after 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Other authorities said that the attack appeared to be a domestic dispute, because family violence protection orders were entered against both men at their arraignments, and court documents show that the victim knew her attackers and identified them to police.
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Gordon E. Finley rightly argues that the federal government should stop excluding male victims from protection under the Violence Against Women Act. ("Fatal flaws: VAWA 2005," Commentary, Tuesday). Data from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that members of both sexes suffer from , yet the criminal justice system does not take against men seriously. For example, the average sentence for an unprovoked killing of a husband is just seven years, compared to 17 years for the killing of a wife.
