On Tuesday, August 11, the international human rights organization Amnesty International voted to adopt a policy “that seeks attainment of the highest possible protection of the human rights of sex workers, through measures that include the decriminalization of sex work” at their International Council Meeting in Dublin, Ireland. Women With a Vision was one of […]
WWAV’s Executive Director Deon Haywood will be presenting at the FREE HER Legislative Advocacy Conference this August 4-5th, 2015 at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School. She will be speaking on a panel covering legislative advocacy and political organizing based on the work of Women With a Vision. This two-day conference brings […]
Women With a Vision is excited to be one of Tulane City Center’s new community collaborative design projects for 2015. Through this program, Tulane City Center and Tulane School of Architecture faculty and students provide pro-bono design and planning services to New Orleans based non-profit and community-based organizations each fall. WWAV is Tulane City Center’s […]
WWAV Statement on Jindal Administration Cutting Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood Defunding Creates Barriers to Services for Low-Income Women and Women of Color In a move that will threaten the health of low-income women and other marginalized women across the state of Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal announced Monday that the Louisiana Department of Health and […]
Check out Women With a Vision’s new blog: http://myexistenceispolitical.com/ Stay tuned for writings, opinions, insights, and news from the staff and volunteers of WWAV, exploring issues important to our work: racial justice, gender justice, reproductive rights, violence against women and queer people, LGBTQ rights, sex worker rights, drug policy reform, harm reduction, and much more! […]