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2025 BWJP Rising Stars – Saba Ghori

“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…

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What I Learned While Working with Young Survivors 

By: 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…

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GrokAI, NCII, and the Fight to Protect Women and Girls Online 

By: 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…

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Opening Doors for Trafficking Survivors

Each 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…

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Savanna’s Law: What Tennessee’s New Domestic Violence Registry Means for Safety and Accountability

By: 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…

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Thoughts The Days After- A Poem 

By 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…

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Reflections from the University of Miami’s Human Rights in the Americas Symposium 

By 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…

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Enter The Manosphere 

By: 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…

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One in Three Women. A Pandemic We Still Refuse to Confront. 

“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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Reclaiming the Holidays: A Season Rewritten With Courage, Comfort, and Joy

By Esther Aparicio, Diana Griffin, Sharonna Lee Across our BWJP community, survivors are powerfully reshaping the season into something that finally feels like safety, choice, and peace. And we hope you know, you deserve nothing less. Your stories and theirs remind us that reclaiming the holidays doesn’t always happen in…

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