On March 21, tens of thousands of women, men and their families will converge in Washington, DC, for a mass mobilization organized by Reform Immigration FOR America to call on Congress and the President to fulfill their promise to pass immigration reform. Please join the NAPAWF DC Chapter, other AAPI organizations and immigrant justice activists [...]

NAPAWF, in our role as co-convener of Women of Color Unite for Health Reform, co-wrote a letter to Congressional leadership, urging them to develop final legislation that will improve women’s health services, cover more people, make coverage more affordable and fair, and address health disparities.

Check out the article here.

Senator Menendez is expected to offer an amendment to the Senate’s health reform bill that will remove the five-year waiting period for legal immigrants to access Medicaid.  You can see the letter of support and endorsing organizations here.

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Yesterday, an anti-abortion amendment introduced by Senators Nelson and Hatch was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 54-45.  The Nelson amendment would have mirrored the Stupak amendment that passed in the House, banning abortion coverage in public and private insurance plans that receive federal funds.
Thank you for sending the right message to our [...]

Thank you for standing up for API women and girls on December 2.  All over the country, NAPAWF members took action to send a message to our lawmakers: API women need abortion care, and we won’t stand for health reform that ignores women’s needs.
Thank you for organizing call-in day activities, as NAPAWF’s Seattle chapter did, [...]

NAPAWF, along with 20 other allied organizations who care about including women in comprehensive health reform, will be in Washington, DC, on December 2 to send the message to Congress that API women need health care reform that includes the full spectrum of reproductive health care. Our legislators need to hear what women in this [...]

With great pride and much excitement, NAPAWF is ecstatic to announce the latest appointee from the Obama Administration. Our very own Kiran Ahuja has been named Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders!
Last month, President Obama signed an Executive Order reinstating the Initiative, which will work to “improve the [...]

November 13, 2009
The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH), and California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ) commend the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for taking the critical final step in removing a mandatory vaccination requirement for immigrant women and girls to receive the HPV vaccine. Today, [...]

November 9, 2009
The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) applauds the House of Representatives for passing a historic health care reform bill on Saturday, November 7, that includes major gains for Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women and girls.  With the House’s reform, insurance companies would no longer be able to discriminate based [...]