‘Ban political violence vs women’

‘Ban political violence vs women’

FORTY-TWO lawmakers on Tuesday filed House Bill 8393, which seeks to define and punish violence against women in politics, or VAWP.“While existing laws address gender-based violence, they nonetheless fail to capture the political dimension of these attacks,” the lawmakers said in the bill’s explanatory note.They said the Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act “is limited to violence within intimate or domestic relationships.”The Safe…