VAWA Re-authorization | Local Zonta Projects | Zonta International Projects | Resources

Building on the theme of the Commission on the Status of Women “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls”, “Zonta Says NO” is an annual campaign to raise awareness of Zonta’s efforts to end violence against women and girls here in the Yakima Valley and around the world.

Washington State Domestic Violence Statistics

View the Annual Domestic Violence Counts for Washington State

Advocacy Makes a Difference - Write to your Elected Representatives

Our Facebook campaign to get people to write to their legislators about VAWA helped bring sabout not only a good results (reauthorization), but also the chance to hear direct from the represenatives about the issues - see a letter from Maria Cantwell sent to one of our campaigners!

Survivor Tells the Story of her Years of Domestic Violence

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorized in 2022!

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) (S.2920) has been introduced into the Senate

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), enacted in 1994, recognizes the insidious and pervasive nature of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and supports comprehensive, effective and cost saving responses to these crimes. VAWA programs, administered by the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services, give law enforcement, prosecutors and judges the tools they need to hold offenders accountable.

Whenever the Act comes up for renewal, Zonta ‘s Campaign to say “No” to violence against women supports the reauthorization of VAWA !. See the press release from the White House on the 2022 re-authorization of VAWA.

Learn more:
Ten Things we would lose if Congress doesn't come up with a Real VAWA!
YWCA position on the VAWA reauthorization
National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women
Provisions in VAWA for Immigrant Victims of Violence Against Women in the United States

Encourage your congressmen/women to vote for the reauthorization of VAWA whenever it comes up for renewal and to include its Provisions related to Immigrant Survivors of Violence Against Women in the United States!

Senator Maria Cantwell - email Senator Cantwell
Senator Patty Murray - email Senator Murray
Representative Dan Newhouse - email Representative Dan Newhouse

Zonta Club of Yakima's Local Projects

Many of the local service grants that we award each year help women who have experienced domestic violence. See the full list of funded projects on our Service Projects page.

From 2011-2015, our Advocacy efforts in the Yakima valley were focused on raising awareness of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the Yakima Valley. Trafficking is an extreme form of violence against women.

 

Zonta International's Projects Overseas

Did you know that Zonta has Zonta has contributed more than US$32.7 million to our International Service and Zonta International Strategies to End Violence Against Women projects?

Zonta International is supporting three projects through the Zonta International Strategies to End Violence against Women (ZISVAW) Fund during the current Biennium.

• Adolescent Girls' Health and Protection in Peru
• Strengthening Response to Gender Based Violence Survivors in Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste
• Ending Child Marriage

 

Resources

Learn more about agencies that are leading the fight to end violence against women:

Zonta Says No - information on Zonta's efforts to combat Violence Against Women across the world.
National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence - providing a voice for the issue of ending domestic violence in Washington
Yakima YWCA - our local domestic violence shelter leads the fight against domestic violence in the Yakima Valley

Why Victims Don't Just Leave - Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence