A bill making its way through the federal system, instigated by a woman from Newfoundland/Labrador after a vicious beating from her intimate partner, has cleared another hurdle.

Georgina McGrath of Branch, St. Mary’s Bay first approached Senator Fabian Manning about ten years ago. The bill was introduced a second time a couple of years ago, and unanimously passed the Senate this week.

The National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence attempts to bring together all the jurisdictional issues on such violence as sometimes it’s provincial or territorial law which applies and other times federal law.

Manning says once Georgina’s Law passes through the House of Commons, the federal minister will be required to give a progress report on the five provisions of the national plan to the House and the Senate.

Senator Manning says her personal account before the Senate was a powerful tool of persuasion.

He says the stats are there: every six days in the country, a woman is killed by an intimate partner; the World Health Organization says every ten minutes a woman is killed in the world by an intimate partner.

“The most dangerous time for a woman is when she is planning on leaving the relationship.”