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…
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…
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.
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…
At the start of the new year, Meta made waves when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced they would be changing their content moderation policies to eliminate censorship on their platforms, Threads, Instagram, and Facebook. Zuckerberg claimed it was time to “get…
It’s nonsensical and draconian, and now, it’s reality: Pornhub is inaccessible in 16 U.S. states due to age-verification laws. Generally, as James Factora writes, such laws “force sites containing ‘material harmful to minors’” to “utilize age verification” and limit users’…
It might be unsurprising, but that doesn’t make it any less shocking: Republicans in Texas have introduced H.B. 1549, a bill that would restrict sales of pleasure products at “big-box” stores and other non-adult retailers. The bill carries significant penalties…
