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Victory for Domestic Abuse Survivors: Women’s Law Project Scores Win in Superior Court
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed that the General Assembly meant what it clearly stated when it adopted a law in 2006 requiring insurers to pay claims to innocent victims whose homes and automobiles are damaged by the intentional acts of their abusive spouses. See Opinion and more.
Co-founder of WE ADVANCE, Maria Bello, to receive Bradwell Award

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Women under Siege | Syrian-American tells UN of cultural reasons why rape in Syria may be underreported

By Women Under Siege — July 30, 2012
Safa Sankari, a member of our Syria team, spoke at the UN on July 18 as part of a presentation of our first findings of a data analysis of our crowdmap of sexualized violence in Syria. Sankari, who is Syrian-American, is the co-founder and president of the Syrian American Medical Society’s Michigan Chapter Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps in the humanitarian and medical needs of Syrians. WMC’s Women Under Siege Director Lauren Wolfe also spoke. You can read her testimony here.

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