Action Alert: Join NOW on 8/8 for Sisters in Suffrage Recognizing Diversity Webinar
National NOW invites you to an educational and timely webinar examining diversity in the women’s suffrage movement and the present-day movement for voting rights.
issue: Promoting Diversity & Ending Racism
NOW Honors 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, NOW is proud to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a critical civil rights law guaranteeing non-discrimination protections to people with disabilities in all areas of public life. Signed into law on July 26, 1990, the ADA served as an important milestone for the rights of people with disabilities in our Read more …
NOW Celebrates the Life of John Lewis — And We Pledge to Honor His Legacy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At Congressman John Lewis’s last appearance in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the historic 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge—where state troopers launched a vicious attack on peaceful demonstrators that left him with a fractured skull,–– he returned to a message that he advocated for throughout his life, the power of the right to vote. Already diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, John Lewis looked back on that day and said, “We were Read more …
Trump’s Effort to Deny Asylum to Victims of Violence is Inhumane
WASHINGTON – One of the cruelest initiatives yet proposed by the Trump Administration threatens to send victims of violence applying for asylum in the U.S. back home to face even more violence or perhaps death. The National Organization for Women (NOW) and our allies in the domestic violence and sexual assault prevention communities have worked for over 20 years to Read more …
SCOTUS Ruling on Birth Control Endangers Reproductive Health of Millions
WASHINGTON ,D.C. – Religion is no excuse for bigotry—but the Supreme Court has carved out a new exemption for employers who want to impose their personal beliefs over the health and rights of their workers. By allowing virtually any employer or university to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that contraception be covered by insurance plans without out-of-pocket Read more …
