For decades, tribes largely had been unable to directly access money in a U.S. program aimed at supporting crime victims nationwide — even as federal figures showed more than half of Native American women faced sexual or domestic violence at some point in their lives. On some reservations, Native American women are killed at a rate more than 10 times the national average.
Current international law news relating to Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities from IGOs and NGOs as reported by Steven C. Perkins, J.D., M.L.L. (scperkins @ gmail.com)
Thursday, September 20, 2018
US doubles tribal funding to fight violence against women
From the AP. By Mary Hudetz: US doubles tribal funding to fight violence against women.
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