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July 13, 2025


Women's Right to Bodily Autonomy

Reframing control of women's bodies


Global News

CATW on Combs Sex Tracking Verdict


States News

Florida records 700,000+ victims of human trafficking

Georgia election officials must certify results

Texas contradicts itself in explaining redistricting

18 states stop cities from enacting paid leave standards

FYI

Health provisions in Fed budget

Slow wage growth key to US inequality


Women's Right to Bodily Autonomy


A Conversation with Jennifer Hirsch


Hirsch is a medical anthropologist and professor of sociomedical science at Columbia University and author of Sexual Citizen which focuses on sex, power and assault on college campus. Her next book will be about coercion and self-determination in marriage, drawing on a case study of New York's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

A Sexual Revolution | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

After reframing the conversation around campus sexual violence, Jennifer S. Hirsch aims to do the same with forced marriage.
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Sex Trafficking



CATW issues a statement about the sex trafficking verdict of Sean 'Diddy' Combs



CATW states the federal Trafficking Victims, Protection Act (TVPA) does not meet the international standards of the UN Trafficking, which the US ratified.

CATW STANDS WITH SURVIVORS IN DISAPPOINTING SEAN "DIDDY" COMBS SEX TRAFFICKING VERDICT AND CONTINUES TO CALL TO AMEND THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT (TVPA) - CATW

New York, NY, July 2, 2025 - At the end of an eight-week trial and after 13 hours of deliberations, a jury in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York acquitted the hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs today of sex trafficking and racketeering charges but found Combs guilty of two counts of [...]
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States News


Florida records more than 700,000 people as victims of human trafficking in 2024 TheGuardian


After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage Propublica


18 states now stop cities from enacting paid leave standards Stateline


Rural North Carolina town forges ahead on clean energy, despite headwinds CanaryMedia


Local man who trafficked, exploited and raped minor girls sentenced to 50 years in prison DOJ


Georgia appeals court agrees: Local election officials must certify results GeorgiaRecorder


Texas contradicts itself in explaining redistricting move VoteBeatTx


Cochise County asks insurer to cover indicted supervisor's legal bills in Arizona election case VoteBeatArizona

For Your Information

Health Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill KFF


What is the 'Seven Mountains Mandate' and how is it linked to political extremism in the US? TheConversation


Slow wage growth is the key to understanding US inequality in the 21st century WACenterEquitableGrowth


From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes TheConversation

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Domestic Violence Headlines for the Week of July 7

Martin Mendoza is arraigned for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death, a Youngstown, Ohio man can't stop abusing despite four arrests now and Denver is putting a stalker behind bars for eight years.
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