Procedural Issues in US Civil Domestic Violence Cases:

• Can a Petitioner Violate Her Own Order for Protection?
• Advocates in Minnesota Challenge Myths regarding Domestic Violence Orders for Protection
• United States Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Victims of Domestic Violence

Procedural Issues in US Criminal Domestic Violence Cases:

• Protecting Victims of Violence through the Domestic Abuse No Contact Order
• Two Minnesota Prosecutors Explain the Need for Increased Criminal Penalties for Strangulation in Domestic Violence Cases

Violence Against Women Issues:

• Protecting the Privacy of Sexual Assault Victims: Evidence of Prior Sexual Conduct

Domestic Violence Issues:

• Technology and Violence against Women
• The Importance of Confidentiality Between Domestic Violence Advocates and Domestic Violence Victims
• Minnesota's New Domestic Abuse Strangulaton Statute
• Barriers to Justice for Battered Mothers and Their Children
• Domestic Violence in the U.S. Military: Who Commits It, What the Victims Experience, and How the Military Responds
• "And Then He Choked Me: Understanding and Investigating Strangulation" by Allison Turkel
• Immigration Help for Individuals Surviving Domestic Violence
• Domestic Violence and the Right to Property in U.S. Caselaw
• VAW Activism Sets the Stage for Legal Change in Conformance with Women's Human Rights
• AWID Presentation: "New Tools for Changing Old Strategies in Combating Violence against Women"
• StopVAW at the AWID Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, 27-30 October 2005
• Presentation on Women and Armed Conflict
• A University Professor Tells How She Uses STOPVAW in the Classroom
• Expanding the Reach of STOPVAW
• New Tactics in Human Rights

Commentary on National Laws

• The Advocates for Human Rights and the Human Rights Department of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Comment on Proposed Amendments to the FBiH Law on Protection from Domestic Violence
• The Advocates for Human Rights Comments on Albanian Domestic Violence Law
• Commentary on the Polish Domestic Violence Law
• Commentary on the Draft Law on the Amendment to Article 3.65, Part 2, Item 1 of the Civil Code (Lithuania)
• Call for Comments on the Montenegro Draft Law on the Protection from Violence in the Family
• Former Lobbyist Discusses Azerbaijan's New Law on Trafficking
• The Advocates for Human Rights Comments on New Romanian Law on Domestic Violence
• The Advocates for Human Rights Comments on New Mongolian Domestic Violence Law

Regional Law and Policy

• Ukraine Amends Legislation on Domestic Violence
• An Important Victory
• The Advocates and Network Women's Program Conclude National Violence Against Women Monitor Two-Day Meeting
• Hungarian Domestic Violence Case before CEDAW: Victory or Another Pile of Papers for the Archives
• The Law on Protection against Domestic Violence in Bulgaria: Insights and History
• Russian Translations of Domestic Violence Training Modules Now Available

Reports

• United Nations Publishes "Forced and Early Marriage:  A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Countries With Selected Laws From Other Countries"
• United Nations Publishes "Legal Reform on Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union" 
• United Nations Releases "Good Practices in Legislation on Violence Against Women"
• An Overview of the International Human Rights of the Girl Child
• American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative’s CEDAW Assessment Tool Report for Moldova
• Research on Violence Against Georgian Women and Their Right to Adequate Housing