National Stalking Awareness Month, 2025, 1027-1028 [2025-00228]

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 1027-1028]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00228]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 4 / Tuesday, January 7, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Proclamation 10879 of December 31, 2024

                
National Stalking Awareness Month, 2025

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                During National Stalking Awareness Month, we honor the 
                courage and resilience of the millions of people in 
                America who have suffered from stalking and recommit to 
                ensuring every American feels safe and protected from 
                this abuse. And we recommit to building a world where 
                every person can walk through life knowing they are 
                safe, secure, and will be treated with respect.

                For the one in three women and one in six men who have 
                endured stalking, the fear it causes can be all-
                consuming. No matter where it was committed or who it 
                was committed by--at home, at work, online, or by a 
                stranger or a neighbor--stalking can destroy a person's 
                sense of security and safety. And it can have immense 
                consequences on their lives: some have to leave 
                everything behind to flee at a moment's notice or are 
                haunted by their experience forever. It is wrong.

                For too long, people refused to talk about stalking and 
                other forms of gender-based violence, leaving survivors 
                feeling alone, isolated, and forgotten. That changed 
                with the passage of the landmark Violence Against Women 
                Act more than 30 years ago--a law I was proud to write 
                and champion as a United States Senator. It helped 
                shine a harsh light on the scourge of gender-based 
                violence in America and ensured that survivors were 
                getting the support they needed. In 2022, I signed a 
                reauthorization of the law, giving survivors of 
                stalking more support and cracking down on 
                perpetrators. It expanded the jurisdiction of Tribal 
                courts to prosecute non-Native perpetrators of stalking 
                and other gender-based violence, while ensuring 
                survivors can bring a civil lawsuit in Federal court 
                against someone who shared intimate images of them 
                online without their consent.

                My Administration has taken action to crack down on 
                stalking and gender-based violence in America. We 
                released our Nation's first-ever National Plan to End 
                Gender-Based Violence, laying out a strategy to best 
                support survivors, work on prevention, and ensure 
                perpetrators are held accountable. The Department of 
                Justice's Office on Violence Against Women has 
                continued providing grants to community organizations, 
                prosecutors, and law enforcement to stop stalking and 
                other gender-based crimes. And to ensure victims have a 
                safe place to call home and rebuild their lives, the 
                Department of Housing and Urban Development has 
                provided tens of thousands of emergency housing 
                vouchers. Furthermore, I established the White House 
                Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse to 
                make sure we are stopping gender-based violence 
                committed online.

                My father used to say that one of the greatest sins a 
                person could commit is the abuse of power--and that is 
                fundamentally what stalking is. During National 
                Stalking Awareness Month, we recommit to supporting 
                survivors of stalking and reaffirm that harassment, 
                abuse, and violence have no place in America.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
                of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 2025 
                as National Stalking Awareness Month. I call on all 
                Americans to speak out

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                against stalking and to support the efforts of 
                advocates, courts, service providers, and law 
                enforcement to help those who are targeted and send the 
                message to perpetrators that these crimes will not go 
                unpunished.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of 
                the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                ninth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2025-00228
Filed 1-6-25; 8:45 am]
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