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 […]
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 […]
TODAY is the national day of action to honor the lives and uplift the stories of Black women and girls who are victims of state and structural violence. The invisibility of the violence that Black women face in local and national media has shown the need to elevate the ways that both race and gender […]
The Louisiana legislative session began on April 13th, and WWAV has been working to bring the issues impacting our communities to the table, and advocating for policies that will improve the lives of marginalized women and their families in Louisiana. Several bills introduced this session pose a threat to our community’s basic human rights — […]