Staving off opposition from the National Rifle Association, the US House of Representatives voted 263–158 to strengthen the Violence Against Women Act.
As the Violence Against Women Act is set to expire this week, new research is confirming what many of us already see: that environmental disasters increase intimate partner violence.
In October, Nadia Murad became the first Iraqi to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaign to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Why has there been so little note of it? The massacre of gender has deep roots.
Little attention is paid to the alarming number of Indigenous women and girls who disappear or are murdered each year. A new report released by the Urban Indian Health Institute aims to shed light on these cases.
This story is excruciating not only because of the story that it tells, but in the underlying and—it would appear, unconscious—narrative that it contains. Mergers can have monetary benefits, but having a shared vision is far more important.
How social media amplifies the gaps in justice for indigenous women, and what nonprofits can learn from it.
When a community organizes itself and builds a commons together, there’s incredible richness available. As nonprofits, one of the most powerful things we can do is create self-reinforcing systems where people understand that their future is tied to the future of others.
Despite the Violence Against Women Act and the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, there is currently no system in place to collect comprehensive data on the number of missing and murdered Native women, which by itself makes Native American women more vulnerable to extreme violence.
Will Savanna’s Act be enough? Or is more outrage needed to address the abuse of Native American women and girls?
While the UK has declined to stop taxing feminine hygiene products, it did promise to pass some of the tax proceeds along to women’s groups. But its first round of grants includes a big one to an anti-abortion organization.
