It is ironic that the month of March, established by the U.S. Congress, in 1987, as “Women’s Month of History”, may this year be remembered as the month in which the U.S. House of Representatives failed to reauthorize one of the most powerful legal tools for the protection of ALL women against violence: the Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA. On February 12, 2013, the U.S. Senate took up its version of VAWA as Senate Bill 47. S. 47 did pass with strong bipartisan support, but unfortunately 22 male senators, (with all 22 members belonging to the same political party), voted against the...