Our Mission
NAPAWF is the only national, multi-issue Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women's organization in the country. NAPAWF's mission is to build a movement to advance social justice and human rights for API women and girls.
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NAPAWF-Chicago is building momentum on the ground with monthly meetings and is getting ready to launch a community survey project on reproductive justice work in the local area.
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Recent Updates
API women won a major immigrant rights victory last week when officials within the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a proposed rule change that would allow undocumented immigrants to stay in the US while they apply for a waiver to remain with their families until they receive permission to obtain a green card. They would [...]
read more >>Today on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Miriam Yeung, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, will be the sole witness to oppose the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) in a Congressional Hearing. This legislation deviously attempts to use communities of color as foils to place a race- and sex-selection abortion ban by using [...]
read more >>“Georgia is on my mind.” On September 28-29, 2011, the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum will stand alongside the National Domestic Workers Alliance and over two dozen organizations (women’s delegation) in Georgia to bring visibility to the impact of Georgia’s new HB87 law, a copycat of Arizona’s SB 1070 legislation on women, children and [...]
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