issue: Stopping Violence Against Women

NOW Vice President Erin Matson interviewed by USA Todays’ Olivia Barker about why Mel Gibson’s latest scandal reminds us why domestic violence is a public health crisis: “Tape recordings purported to be Gibson unleashing a barrage of insults, racial slur…

Amy Lieberman of WeNews reports that “When Mexico decriminalized undocumented migration from the nations south of its border through its country two years ago, it also started allowing migrant victims of violence access to humanitarian visas. However, th…

An editorial by The Washington Post states: “Swiss officials who refused to extradite director Roman Polanski to the United States to face punishment for a long-ago sex crime said they didn’t have enough information. Maybe they neglected to read the undi…

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson writes: “After authorities announced Monday that they were denying the U.S. request to have Polanski extradited, one of the famed auteur’s lawyers called the decision ‘an enormous satisfaction and a gre…

Associated Press’ Jennifer Peltz interviews NOW President Terry O’Neill about the firing of a Wall Street banker and whether her sexual harassment lawsuit reveals that there is still no equality in the work place — especially on corporate America: “Bu…