Thread by @didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020.This part is called: Ending Violence Against Women
Only one party has a specific plan to end the scourge of violence affecting women & non-binary individuals.This strategy includes reauthorizing #VAWA & fully enacting it’s protections. 1/11

#Democrats are committed to ending sexual assault, domestic abuse, and other violence against women. 2/11 #DemPartyPlatform #ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAWA

#Democrats will act swiftly to overcome #Republican #obstructionism and reauthorize and expand the Violence Against Women Act 3/11 #DemPartyPlatform #VAWA

#Democrats know we must better protect #NativeAmerican women, women with disabilities, #children and young women, transgender women and other #LGBTQ+ people, and other groups who are disproportionately affected by sexual assault and domestic abuse. 4/11 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats will expand services for survivors of violence against women, including by expanding access to housing, legal assistance, and victim advocate services. 5/11 #DemPartyPlatform #ViolenceAgainstWomen #DomesticViolence #LGBTQIA

#Democrats will support danger assessment and lethality training for law enforcement officers and community partners to help curb domestic violence homicides. 6/11 #DemPartyPlatform #DomesticViolence #domesticabuse

#Democrats recognize that sex workers, who are disproportionately women of color and #transgender women, face especially high rates of sexual assault and violence, and we will work with states and localities to protect the lives of #sexworkers. 7/11 #DemPartyPlatform

#Democrats will enforce and provide tools and resources for schools to implement Title IX, which requires schools and institutions of higher education to properly investigate sexual misconduct, 8/11 #DemPartyPlatform #TitleIX #Sexualabuse

Tools and resources to properly implement #TitleIX include: peer-on-peer sexual harassment and violence training and counseling ; take appropriate action; and prevent future sexual misconduct. 9/11 #DemPartyPlatform #Sexualabuse

#Democrats will increase resources to eliminate the national backlog of untested rape kits so that more survivors can see justice be served. 10/11
#DemPartyPlatform #RapeKits #SexualAssault

And #Democrats will support federal and state legislative efforts to make “revenge porn” and other unauthorized disclosures of intimate images a civil and criminal offense.11/11
#DemPartyPlatform #RevengePorn #SexualAbuse