THE NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE'S VISION
We envision a national culture in which we are all safe, empowered and free from domestic violence.
THE NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE'S MISSION
Our mission is to lead, mobilize and raise our voices to support efforts that demand a change of conditions that lead to domestic violence such as patriarchy, privilege, racism, sexism, and classism. We are dedicated to supporting survivors and holding offenders accountable and supporting advocates.
OUR WORK
NCADV's Public Policy Office
The NCADV Public Policy Office collaborates with other national organizations to promote legislation and policies that serve and protect victims and survivors of domestic violence, and we work to change the narrative surrounding domestic violence.
We seek macro-level change in order to create a society in which domestic violence is never tolerated or minimized, in which victims and survivors are respected, and in which service providers have the resources to serve all victims and survivors.
In turn, we rely on our members and our partners’ members to provide grassroots support, contacting their congressional delegations and making their voices heard at the local level.
http://www.survivingeconomicabuse.org
Our mission is to raise awareness of and transform responses to economic abuse. We want everyone to understand what economic abuse is, how to recognize it in the context of domestic violence, and what they can do to support victim-survivors.
SEA is the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it.
The UK charity advocating for women whose economic resources have been controlled, exploited or sabotaged by a current/ex-partner.
One in six women in the UK has experienced economic abuse by a current or former partner. Economic abuse rarely happens in isolation; it normally happens alongside other forms of domestic abuse.
EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Rabid white supremacist are hell bent on banning books and manipulating school curriculums so that their version of history and what they believe is good or bad, right or wrong is all our young people will be allowed to learn. "Woke" has become a dirty word to them because it denotes those who are educated & informed.
For all the above reasons and more, we decided to post to social media this listing from the Resource Library on www.womensvoicesmedia.org to provide you with an excellent resource for all aspects of the history of civil rights in America. Please, set aside some time to educate yourself and/or to refresh your memory. Don't allow the fascists to deprive you from other rights: the right to read what you want and the right to be informed.
https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/intro
A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States
This guide offers a history of various movements by citizens in the United States to gain political and social freedom and equality. It highlights resources available through HUSL Library and HU Libraries, as well as a selection freely accessible Internet resources with a focus on authoritative content from civil rights organizations and government entities.
Civil Rights versus Human Rights
What is the difference between a civil right and a human right? Simply put, human rights are rights one acquires by being alive. Civil rights are rights that one obtains by being a legal member of a certain political state. There are obviously several liberties that overlap between these two categories, but the breakdown of rights between human and civil is roughly as follows:
Human rights include:
- the right to life
- the right to education
- protection from torture
- freedom of expression
- the right to a free trial
Civil rights within the United States include:
- protection from discrimination
- the right to free speech
- the right to due process
- the right to equal protection
- the right against self-incrimination
It is important to note that civil rights will change based on where a person claims citizenship because civil rights are, in essence, an agreement between the citizen and the nation or state that the citizen lives within. From an international perspective, international organizations and courts are not as likely to intervene and take action to enforce a nation's violation of its own civil rights, but are more likely to respond to human rights violations. While human rights should be universal in all countries, civil rights will vary greatly from one nation to the next. No nation may rightfully deprive a person of a human right, but different nations can grant or deny different civil rights. Thus, civil rights struggles tend to occur at local or national levels and not at the international level. At the international stage, we focus on the violation of human rights.
This guide will focus on the civil rights that various groups have fought for within the United States. While some of these rights, like the right to education, certainly overlap with human rights, we treat them as civil rights in most academic conversations. Typically, the reason used to justify a right to equal education or another human right is grounded in a civil right of due process or equal protection.
Social Justice
As Charles Hamilton Houston stated:
A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.
Howard University School of Law is dedicated to producing “social engineers” and has proven track record of success. The words of Charles Hamilton Houston are alive everyday in the work taking place at The Mecca's law school. Learn more about Social Justice issues here.
Author Credits
Over the summer of 2019, Kristina Alayan in her capacity as HUSL Library Director communicated with her former Georgetown Law Library guide collaborators and with the assistance of Victoria Capatosto, Research and Instruction Librarian at HUSL Library, transferred a copy of their original guide to HUSL Library for independent development. HUSL Library's edition of the guide is accessible through our website, where you’re currently viewing it.
The following law librarians at Georgetown Law Library created the original guide that was the basis for HUSL Library’s version:
- Kristina Alayan - Head of Reference
- Heather Casey - International & Foreign Law Reference Librarian
- Rachel Jorgensen - Reference Librarian
- Barbara Monroe - Reference Librarian
The Georgetown Law Library's original guide is available here: https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/civilrights.
Victoria Capatosto oversees the development of HUSL Library's edition of the guide with assistance from LIS graduate student interns and law students working at HUSL Library.
- During the Fall 2019 semester Claire Eldredge-Burns, HUSL Library’s remote public services LIS graduate student intern, completed extensive work to incorporate this guide into HUSL Library’s collection. Claire transformed the look and feel of this guide, implemented a protocol for image incorporation, and conducted a massive resource evaluation, successfully replacing Georgetown Law Library resources with HUSL Library resources.
- During the Spring 2020 semester Tori Stanek, HUSL Library's remote public services LIS graduate student intern, updated existing research, added in more HUSL resources, and edited the prose to fit the tone of Howard University. She also created new tabs on the Black Panther Party and the Womanist Movement.
- During the Summer 2020 semester Mike Poveromo, HUSL Library's remote public services LIS graduate student intern, created a new tab on the Black Lives Matter Movement and the created the Get Involved page.
- During the Summer 2020 semester John Miller, HUSL Library's remote public services LIS graduate student intern, created an extensive new section on Indigenous Peoples' Civil Rights, covering (1) Prior to 1492, (2) the Treaty Era, (3) the Removal Era, (4) Reservation Era, (5) the Allotment and Assimilation Era, (6) the Self-Government Era, (7) the Termination Era, and (8) the Self-Determination Era.
- During the Fall 2020 semester Yaa McNeil, HUSL Library's Research Fellow, created a new section on Transgender Rights in the United States.
https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/about-us/
We work to ensure that no one loses their rights because of pregnancy or because of their capacity for pregnancy, focusing on pregnant people who are most at risk of state control and criminalization: those who are low-income, of color, and drug-using.
We've maintained this mission since we were first established in 2001 as National Advocates for Pregnant Women.
We are guided by the principles of reproductive justice, a human rights framework created and led by Black women. SisterSong defines reproductive justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. Reproductive justice recognizes the interconnectedness of movements toward justice. Reproductive justice is environmental justice, immigrant justice, racial justice, economic justice, and trans justice.
The criminal legal system and family regulation system should never be involved in pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes.
All people are entitled to dignity, equality, and respect regardless of race, religion, national origin, immigration status, disability, gender, sexual orientation, capacity for pregnancy, or pregnancy.
The threat of pregnancy criminalization, like the criminal legal system itself, targets communities of color and is deeply rooted in racism. Even though our work requires that we engage with these systems, we must also commit to dismantling oppressive systems.
We are pro-choice doctors with years of experience in caring for miscarriage and abortion.
We are freely giving our time to you.
Reach us by PHONE orTEXT and we can give expert advice on self-managing your miscarriage or abortion.
- We are available 10AM to 10PM in all continental US time zones, and will respond within an hour.
- We will not ask your name or any personal details or health identifiers.
- Our texts and phones are confidential, private, and secure.
This site provides contact information for a number of other sites providing a variety of services available for help with miscarriagses and abortions.