By the National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith & Credit My friends told me I needed to get a restraining order, but I didn’t want to go through all the processes within the system . . . However, if I could go back and do it again, I would have gotten the restraining […]
By The National Legal Center on Children and Domestic Violence April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness that child abuse and neglect are preventable through reshaping system responses by centralizing the voices of the children they are charged to protect. There is consistent research that illustrates the high level of […]
By Meghan Dunlap Recovering from sexual assault can feel like you’re within a silo. You hear the statistics of 81% of women report sexual harassment or assault in their lifetime, and it pulls at your heartstrings, but it’s hard to grasp in real life. The reality is that every 68 seconds, an American is sexually […]
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As we recognize Women’s History Month, we are highlighting some of the Rising Stars of BWJP: members of our staff who are rising through the ranks and actively impacting the movement. These young women are continually striving for excellence and building on the legacy that our foremothers have built. Today, we are highlighting Rising Star, Amalfi […]
As we recognize Women’s History Month, we are highlighting some of the Rising Stars of BWJP: members of our staff who are rising through the ranks and actively impacting the movement. These young women are continually striving for excellence and building on the legacy that our foremothers have built. BWJP staff members are sharing about their fellow […]
As we recognize Women’s History Month, we are highlighting some of the Rising Stars of BWJP: members of our staff who are rising through the ranks and actively impacting the movement. These young women are continually striving for excellence and building on the legacy that our foremothers have built. BWJP staff members are sharing about their fellow […]
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Zoë is a graduate of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN, an all-women college, with one of the most diverse student campuses in Minnesota. Zoë has a background in team leadership and project management. She is looking forward to using her unique skills and experiences to support the operations and project management of the […]
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Sujata Warrier, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer, BWJP “We could think of feminist history as a history of snappy women. Perhaps we would be thinking of how what comes out of our own mouths is speaking this history[1]”. – Sara Ahmed As we enter March and Women’s History month, I am reminded of all the ways […]
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Gender-based violence thrives in power imbalance. Public defenders, champions of equal access to justice, play a crucial role in dismantling structures that perpetuate such violence. Sometimes, however, anti-IPV advocates and defense attorneys perceive themselves rooted on different sides of the justice divide. If this view sounds familiar to you, we’d like to invite you to […]
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