Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Allies Respond to UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls’
On January 30, 2025, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the National Survivor Network (NSN), and Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) submitted a response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur (SR) on Violence Against Women and Girls’ call for input to inform an addendum…
Woodhull Supports Decriminalization Efforts in New York
Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Advocates for the passage of the “Cecilia’s Act for Rights in the Sex Trades”, New York State Senate Bill S2513 and Assembly Bill A3251 relating to the decriminalization of sex work The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is…
Woodhull Supports Immunity for Sex Workers in New York State!
February 25, 2025 Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Support A.1029 (Kelles) / S.3967 (Sepulveda) Dear Legislator: The Woodhull Freedom Foundation supports A.1029/S.3967, legislation to enable victims and witnesses to a crime to be able to seek help without fear of being…
The Reinstated Global Gag Rule
Trump is back in office (which perhaps bears no reminding) – and with that come his draconian policies, both old and new, including the anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule. The global gag rule itself is some 40…
Criminalizing Sex Work Does Not Improve Safety or Public Health
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.
No, Sex Trafficking will not Spike During the Super Bowl, but Harmful Police Actions will
Want to hear an outright lie told often around this time of year? Here’s one: the Super Bowl is “the single largest human-trafficking incident in the United States.” This 100% false statement, lacking any evidence, was made in 2011 by…
Woodhull Freedom Foundation Releases New Fact Checked report “The Super Bowl is not a large human trafficking event.”
Woodhull Freedom Foundation, as part of its Fact Checked by Woodhull initiative, has released today its latest report to combat the often-perpetuated myth – and often sensational media headlines – that sex trafficking increases during one of the biggest and…
Woodhull Cries Foul! At Slate of Alarming Bills Introduced in Oklahoma Seeking to Rollback Human Rights
Emboldened by President Trump’s election, Senator Dusty Deevers, an ultra-conservative abortion abolitionist, pastor, and Oklahoma State Senator, ignores the separation between church and state, Constitutional rights, and human rights in two slates of proposed bills. The first slate of eight…
