“It’s important to treat people with kindness and empathy. Just because somebody has a charge doesn’t mean they’re a monster. That distinction is important.” -Patrick Cunningham, Defense Based Advocate, National Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors This month we are featuring some of the Rising Stars of BWJP who are rising through the ranks and actively impacting our movement. Meet Patrick Cunningham, an…
#BWJP Announcements #News“The driving force for me is this need to make change from the grassroots, at the community level, and start changing these stories for women.” - Saba Ghori, Director, Center on Global Rights for Women March is Women’s History Month, and Sunday is International Women’s Day and to celebrate this month we are featuring some of…
#BWJP Announcements #NewsBy: Megan BeldenESQ. Senior Attorney Advisor, National Restraining Order Center One in three. That’s how many teens will experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by someone that they are in a relationship with during their teenage years.1 My first job as a real-life attorney, actually representing survivors of intimate partner violence in court, was at the non-profit Break the…
#Gender Based Violence #NewsBy: Rachel E. Barkley, JD MBA, Staff Attorney, National Center for Legal Approaches to Prevent Family Violence Late December 2025, X users began leveraging GrokAI, X’s automated chatbot, to create nonconsensual sexually suggestive and explicit images of women and children. These images, which were developed through Grok’s image generation tools and its recently…
#Gender Based Violence #NewsEach January, Human Trafficking Awareness Month invites us to confront a form of violence that is widespread, often hidden, and deeply interconnected with other forms of harm. Human trafficking—including both sex trafficking and labor trafficking—rarely occurs in isolation. While sex trafficking often receives more public and media attention, labor trafficking…
#Gender Based Violence #NewsBy: Jennifer Waindle, MS, Deputy Director, National Center on Legal Approaches to Prevent Family Violence Tennessee has begun implementing a new law designed to increase public awareness and safety by registering repeat domestic violence offenders. Formally known as “Savanna’s Law,” House Bill 1200 was signed by Governor Bill Lee on…
#Gender Based Violence #NewsBy Avery-Grace Blanco, SAVES National Clearinghouse, National Legal Center on Children and Domestic Violence Project Assistant “Thoughts the Days After” is a deeply personal piece about the aftermath of being stalked and attacked by someone I once considered a close friend. It explores the slow, painful unraveling of trust—the moment when…
#Gender Based Violence #NewsBy Saba Ghori, Center for Global Rights for Women at BWJP In November 2025, I had the privilege of representing the Center for Global Rights for Women (GRW) at BWJP at the University of Miami’s Human Rights in the Americas Symposium, a week-long gathering of human rights leaders, scholars, and…
#Gender Based Violence #NewsBy: Rachel E. Barkley, JD MBA, Staff Attorney, National Center for Legal Approaches to Prevent Family Violence I was born in 1996. I grew up in a home with a family computer that took up space in our recreation room, and eventually, secured my own coveted lime green Dell Inspiron…
#Gender Based Violence #News“Justice isn't just punishment for the accused. It's systematic accountability. It's institutions admitting when they've failed sexual assault survivors, when negligence caused harm, and then having the courage to change...This moment began with Epstein’s crimes, but it’s going to be remembered for survivors demanding justice, demanding truth, demanding accountability." …
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