Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Groups Warn that House-Passed Health Bill Would Harm Victims of Domestic and Sexual Assault, Urge Senate to Reject the AHCA Washington, D.C. – As national organizations working to end domestic violence and sexual assault in the United States, we are very disappointed that the House…
Surviving sexual assault is sometimes only the first part of a long ordeal, but it doesn’t have to be this way. When Grace Watkins went to the hospital after she was raped at 18 by a Notre Dame student while his friends photographed the assault, she was told that it…
Originally published on Change.Org on April 15, 2017 By A.J. Walton and Joshunda Sanders. Eighteen-year-old Grace Watkins didn’t think she’d be subjected to further pain and humiliation soon after she was raped by a Notre Dame athlete while his friends filmed the violent attack. But that’s exactly what happened when…
Originally published on Pacific Standard on April 3, 2017 By Melissa Gira Grant. A new report goes past sensationalized stories to show what trafficking really looks like — and what those who have been trafficked themselves are doing to end it. If you were asked to imagine what a survivor of human…
