#ANIQA RAIHAN FULL#
It is commonly believed that Palestinian citizens of Israel - officially known as Arab Israelis - enjoy full equality in the Jewish State. Most people agree that the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been occupied since 1967. Much less thought and literature is dedicated to the treatment of Palestinians living inside modern-day Israel proper. I decided to head over there and see for myself.
It’s no secret that there is an occupation happening in and around Israel. And their villages are under constant threat of demolition. Distributed by of Arab Bedouins in Israel’s Negev desert are denied power, water, sewage, and roads by the state. She led a movement against campus sexual assault at the George Washington University. Survivors everywhere deserve support, security, and peace of mind, and it’s long past time our laws reflect that fact.Īniqa Raihan is a writer, activist and community organizer with a focus on violence against women. And, of course, we need universal background checks on all gun sales, no matter where they occur. We need legislation requiring law enforcement agencies to report offenders for inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. We need specific systems to remove weapons from dangerous people, including laws allowing law enforcement to seize weapons found while responding to reports of intimate partner violence. We need thoroughness and uniformity across state lines. But that alone won’t be enough to ensure that abusers don’t have access to deadly firearms. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have introduced legislation to close the boyfriend loophole on the federal level. Six of those states are in the top 10 with the highest rates of gun deaths. Meanwhile, 13 states have no laws at all to prevent domestic abusers from owning or buying new guns. And just four require law enforcement to proactively remove guns from offenders rather than wait for them to be turned in. Twenty-seven states require convicted abusers and those subject to protective orders to relinquish their firearms, but only half of those specify whom the weapons should be given to. The federal law prohibiting gun ownership for abusers doesn’t actually outline a mechanism for them to hand over weapons they already own. Oregon’s new law makes it the 24th state to officially close the loophole, but there’s still much work to be done. Over 1,000 women are murdered each year by current or past husbands or partners - that’s three women a day or one woman dead each time you sit down for a meal.Īnd though the story of the battered wife is not an unfamiliar one, a recent study at the University of Pennsylvania found that over 80 percent of intimate partner violence incidents reported in 2013 involved current or past dating partners, while current and past spouses accounted for less than 20 percent of incidents.Īs Americans continue to get married later and less frequently, the nationwide population of unmarried adults will grow, which is why closing the boyfriend loophole should be a top priority for lawmakers across the country. While this news received relatively little coverage, it’s a huge step forward and will unquestionably save lives. While federal law is already supposed to prevent gun ownership by domestic abusers, the law’s outdated definition left out those who didn’t live with or have children with their victims - hence, the boyfriend loophole. The new law will prevent anyone from buying or owning a firearm who’s been convicted of stalking or domestic violence, as well as people with active protective orders against them. Just one day after the devastating Valentine’s Day shooting in Florida, the Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill to close what’s called the “boyfriend loophole” in its gun laws. While Republicans and Democrats gridlocked over the best way to prevent shootings, the Oregon Legislature took action to prevent a particularly deadly form of gun violence - and it didn’t involve arming teachers or outlawing AR-15s. Yet Congress is still dragging its feet on guns. It’s now been just over a month since 17 teenagers were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, culminating in a march that brought nearly a million people to the capital.
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