Violence Against Women
Living free from violence is a human right. Yet millions of women and girls around the world encounter rape, domestic abuse, mutilation and other forms of gender-based violence. Too often no one is held accountable for these crimes. With your help, we can urge governments to hold perpetrators responsible and put an end to this cycle of violence against women. Take action to stop violence against women!
 Bill passes protecting women's human rights Women exercising the right to vote. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to make the Office for Global Women’s Issues permanent. This office is a key provision of the International Violence against Women Act (IVAWA) and a major step forward in combating violence against women and improving women’s healthcare, education and economic stability. The Foreign Relations Authorization bill must now be voted on by the Senate. For the bill to be signed into law, we’ll need to keep the pressure on and continue letting Congress know that we care about women’s human rights worldwide.  Stimulus funding for Native Women © AFP The economic stimulus package the U.S. Congress recently approved includes hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Services. This victory is due in part because of AIUSA and the 2007 AIUSA report, Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA. |  The Price of SilenceIn this new music video collaboration, 16 global artists celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The artists in the video include Yungchen Lhamo, a Tibetan musician who was born in a Chinese labor camp and at the age of 22 trekked across the Himalayas with her two-year old son to escape oppression from the Chinese regime. 
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Women's RightsWomen face human rights injustices, in addition to gender-based discrimination. Women and children account for most casualties of war and make up most of the world's refugees, displaced and poor populations.  Violence against Alaskan and Native American womenNative American and Alaska Native women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than women in the United States in general. | International Violence Against WomenAt least 1 out of every 3 women worldwide are beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. Women's Human Rights DefendersWomen's activism is on the rise around the world despite government and individual opposition. Support the millions of women who have made defending women's human rights their life, including:
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