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About the Women's Rights Project
Since 1972, the ACLU Women's Rights Project has worked to empower
women and advance
equality. Many people, before and since, have
contributed to our effort: ACLU
co-founders Jane Addams, Emily Greene
Balch, Crystal Eastman, and Jeanette Rankin;
Dorothy Kenyon and Pauli
Murray, Board of Directors members; Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
first Director
of the Project; and numerous others. Demanding basic economic
and social
opportunities for all women — regardless of race, class, or
national
origin — WRP works to ensure that women and their families can
enjoy the benefits
of full equality and participation in every sphere of
society.
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The Women's Rights Project focuses on four core areas:
Employment
WRP advocates on behalf of
low-wage immigrant women workers, works to eliminate welfare disparities, and
seeks to end workplace discrimination.
Violence Against Women
WRP is committed to
advancing battered women's civil rights, assisting women in their efforts to
keep themselves and their children safe, and challenging the housing and
employment discrimination experienced by so many battered women, especially
low-income and women of color.
Criminal Justice
WRP addresses the harms to
women and girls caught up in the criminal and juvenile justice systems,
including their conditions of confinement, and the impact of sentencing and
incarceration policies on women and their
children. Education
WRP
is
dedicated to ensuring that public schools do not become sex-segregated and
that girls and boys receive equal educational opportunities. |
San Bernardino County Agrees To Allow Religious Head Scarves In County Jails (11/3/2008)
ORANGE, CA -- San Bernardino County agreed today to institute policies that accommodate the First Amendment right to wear religious head scarves in jail.
Colorado Domestic Violence Survivor Seeks Justice In International Tribunal (10/22/2008)
WASHINGTON – In the first case brought by a survivor of domestic violence against the U.S. before an international human rights tribunal, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hear testimony today by Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales), whose three daughters were kidnapped by her estranged husband and killed.
ACLU Calls Again for Withdrawal of Regulations Jeopardizing Womens Health (9/26/2008)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union and all its state affiliates, including Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services asking the administration to rescind regulations that could seriously undermine access to reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.
ACLU Asks Bush Administration to Withdraw Regulations Jeopardizing Womens Health (9/24/2008)
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union will submit comments tomorrow to the Department of Health and Human Services asking the administration to stop regulations that could seriously undermine access to reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion.
Corrections Department Returns Women Held In New Jersey Men's Prison To Women's Prison After ACLU Lawsuit (9/4/2008)
TRENTON – Nine months after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging the transfer of women prisoners from Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, the state's prison for women, to New Jersey State Prison (NJSP), a men's supermax prison, the Department of Corrections (DOC) has transferred the women back to the women's prison.
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