Women's Rights Network
Program Areas and Projects
I. U.S. Human
Rights Education & Advocacy Initiative
II. Global Network Against Domestic
Violence & Sexual Abuse
I. US Human Rights Education
& Advocacy Initiative
Overview: The goal of this Initiative is
to strengthen the capacity of anti-violence activists in the United
States to address domestic violence and sexual abuse by training
and supporting them to use human rights tools in all aspects of
their work. The Initiative is designed to:
- Give anti-violence activists new skills to
document, educate and organize against violence against women
in all of its forms.
- Provide anti-violence activists with
the framework and support necessary to build coalitions across
related issues and constituencies
that, together, address the full spectrum of women's rights
(such as reproductive health/rights, HIV/AIDS, and women's
economic empowerment).
- Help build a national US women's human
rights movement with a strong grassroots base as well as connections
to the
global
women's movement.
The Battered Mothers' Testimony Project
The Women’s Rights Network is pleased to announce the release
of:
Battered Mothers Speak Out: A Human Rights Report on Domestic
Violence and Child Custody in the Massachusetts Family Courts
Begun in 1999, the Battered Mothers' Testimony Project is the
current focus of WRN's work. This statewide project combines human
rights
fact-finding, qualitative research, advocacy, and community organizing
to document and address the injustices inflicted on battered mothers
and their children during family court child custody and visitation
litigation.
To our knowledge, the Battered Mothers' Testimony Project is
the first human rights initiative to address child custody and
domestic
violence issues.
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