Surviving at the Intersections- Barriers to Health for API Women by Shivana Jorawar, Esq., National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum is proudly taking part in the Health Equity Can’t Wait! blog carnival celebrating National Minority Health Month. Participating bloggers are health, consumer, women’s rights, and provider advocates committed [...]

Health Care is Always a Human Right By Christine Soyong Harley, Policy and Programs Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum is proudly taking part in the Health Equity Can’t Wait! blog carnival celebrating National Minority Health Month.  Participating bloggers are health, consumer, women’s rights, and provider advocates [...]

The National Governing Board of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum seeks energetic, visionary, fabulous, fierce nominations for new board members. Read our official announcement here! NAPAWF’s Mission Founded in 1995, NAPAWF’s mission is to build a movement to advance social justice and human rights for Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women and girls [...]

As ACA Faces a Supreme Court Challenge, Who Is at Stake? by Shivana Jorawar, Reproductive Justice Fellow March 23, 2012 Today marks two years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law. As it turns two, President Obama’s landmark health care reform will be challenged in the Supreme Court, and health advocates across the country [...]

NAPAWF, in partnerships with the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, is working on exciting new campaigns to bring a gender analysis to immigration reform efforts, particularly around enforcement, and to more closely link the women’s rights movements with the immigrant rights movements. This position will play a key [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum is the only national, multi-issue Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women’s advocacy organization in the United States. We are building a movement to advance social justice and human rights for API women and girls in the U.S. by increasing the leadership, power and visibility of API women and [...]

NAPAWF-Chicago Reproductive Justice Project Coordinator Opening – Aug. 15 Position Summary: The Chicago, IL chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum seeks an energetic consultant to help develop and implement a groundbreaking Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Reproductive Justice (RJ) focused community survey project. The two-fold purpose of the project is to: Better [...]