Lantos Commission Wants Women Protected
Publication Date
21 April 2010
Publication Author
Gary Feuerberg
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The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on “Violence Against Women: Strategies and Responses” on Capitol Hill for the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). Gary Barker, ICRW’s director of gender, violence and rights who was among the panelists who testified, said programs designed to “work with boys and adult men to question societal ideas about what it means to be men and boys” are needed.
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