Arizona Law Hurts Women And Families – Today, the National Coalition for Immigrant Women’s Rights released a statement condemning the anti-immigrant Arizona law.   You can read the statement here.  To learn more about the coalition and immigrant women, please click here.

On Friday, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a rabidly anti-immigrant bill that would require law enforcement officials to question people about their immigration status if the officer has a “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the U.S. illegally.  We believe that this new law legalizes and encourages racial profiling. “This bill is an [...]

April 26, 2010 Washington, DC – In late February, President Obama nominated Goodwin Liu to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  Liu, currently a professor at the University of California – Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, would be the youngest judge on the court by 16 years, if confirmed by the Senate.   [...]

April 20 is Equal Pay Day, which marks the day of the year a woman stops working for free. You read that right! The average American woman works nearly four months more to be paid the same as a man working a comparable job. According to the National Women’s Law Center, the average American woman [...]