Don’t give rapists power over women

We need state laws that protect women, safeguard children and deny safe harbor to rapists who seek continued control over the women they’ve attacked.

National Organization for Women Condemns Assaults Against Sudan’s Women

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On April 11, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was arrested and forced from power by a military coup after thirty years of dictatorship rule. Women were at the forefront, organizing peaceful protests against Bashir, that began on the

Head of NOW rallies abortion-rights supporters in Rhode Island

“The Trump administration has given a blank check to the religious right to enact a fundamentalist vision of government that is straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.”

NOW Celebrates the Centennial of the Senate Passing the Nineteenth Amendment

WASHINGTON, D.C. — One hundred years ago, on June 4th, 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment and sent it off to the states for ratification. The amendment is brief, simply stating: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not

NOW Celebrates Pride Month, Honors Stonewall Anniversary

WASHINGTON D.C. — This Pride Month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 June Stonewall Uprising in New York City. Three nights of resistance at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in New York’s Greenwich Village ignited the modern LGBTQIA+ movem