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25 Sep 2023, 12:03 pm
The law professor and Krav Maga instructor also discusses what readers will find in her forthcoming second book "Fearless Speech," why only criminalization is likely to incentivize potential online abusers to stay put, and what encourages her to continue advocating for women's rights in the face of death threats. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 6:41 am
Domestic Violence and Abuse According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 10 million men and women are the victims of physical abuse at the hands of a romantic partner every year in the United States. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 9:16 pm
Together, the two women formed the nonprofit organization Consumer Advocates for RCFE Reform. [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 10:57 am
For a victim or advocate seeking to make a complaint and achieve redress, the accountability process is bewildering, opaque, and slow-moving. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 11:01 am
Over an 18-month period, at least eight women have been prosecuted for using drugs while pregnant in this rural jurisdiction of barely 37,000, a tally without any recent parallel that women’s advocates have been able to find. [read post]
15 Apr 2021, 10:00 am
If you want to divorce a spouse who has physically, mentally, or financially abused you, it is essential that you have a skilled legal advocate in your corner. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 11:28 am
”Laura Track, legal director at the West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund — a not-for-profit advocating for women’s equality through legal initiatives — says it “boggles the mind” how litigants without any legal training can attempt to make the complex legal arguments required at the court of appeal level. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 10:36 am
Again, here the Thunder Bay police want names, and the women advocating on behalf of the victims cite fear of retaliation. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 4:30 am
Between the 1870s and the 1930s, at the height of racial segregation and lynching, and amid the campaign for woman suffrage, women's rights supporters and African American activists tried to expand understandings of rape in order to gain legal protection from coercive sexual relations, assaults by white men on black women, street harassment, and the sexual abuse of children. [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 4:33 am
Since its founding in 1987, Las Americas has served close to 70,000 persons, with a strong focus on women, children, families, the LGBTQ community and asylum seekers. [read post]
17 Jul 2017, 2:16 pm
Marijuana advocates in Vancouver, Canada send a message resonating all the way to New Jersey. [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm
The Continued Fight for Equality At a certain level of generality, women’s rights advocates still seek the rights laid out in that 1848 document. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 5:46 pm
The statistics speak for themselves: domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to U.S. women between the ages of 15 and 44; an estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year; and 1 in 4 American women are abused by their partners. [read post]
30 Jul 2022, 5:30 am
Abortion-rights advocates have also turned to these kinds of guerrilla tactics: In the years before the right to legal abortion was established in Roe v. [read post]
13 Jun 2009, 6:00 am
Based on statistics, women and "older" elders are most likely to be victimized. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 4:00 pm
When facing a protective order, you want an advocate who can uncover the facts in your case and protect your rights throughout the legal process. [read post]
9 Oct 2012, 8:58 am
Chalk this one up to an odd legal battle, but advocates for those who enjoy engaging in rough but consensual sex say that a Missouri case could lead to the criminalization of their lifestyle. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 8:50 am
Locally, the Women Against Abuse Legal Center provides free legal advocacy and representation for Philadelphians experiencing relationship violence in family law matters such as Protection From Abuse and custody cases. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 2:30 pm
But some young women live in an abusive home, or a home where it would not be safe to disclose a pregnancy. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 8:48 am
For decades, advocates have protested and journalists have reported on the problematic system and the abuses suffered by the civilly committed women. [read post]
