Fairness in the Courts
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Our 2023 Action Agenda outlines the six key legislative priorities on which we believe we can achieve progress and on which we will focus our advocacy resources throughout the coming year: • Advancing pay equity through pay transparency • Increasing women’s economic security by increasing the minimum wage • Ensuring equality under state and Federal constitutions • Ending nonconsensual drug-testing of pregnant patients • Ensuring enforcement of Title IX for all students • Expanding employment protections for survivors
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Are you a pregnant person seeking medical care from a hospital? Did you know that hospitals have been found to routinely drug test pregnant people without their informed consent? This could be happening to you without your knowledge and may lead to harmful consequences such as: Your children being taken away from you Invasive child welfare investigations Lost bonding time with your newborn The inability to breastfeed
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A webinar launching our online victim advocates training course.
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We canvassed judges nationally to ask what they wish they had known before presiding in adult victim sexual assault cases. Judges Tell presents 25 points followed by commentary and sources.
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A summary of suggestions, for judges to judges, about how to minimize trauma throughout sexual assasult trials.
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Ten tips on creating a judicial education program based on NJEP's 40 years of experience in the field. Excerpt “Sex offense trials are “more difficult…to preside [over] from a legal and technical standpoint, a personal and emotional viewpoint, and a public scrutiny and public pressure perspective.”
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Suggestions, developed for judges by judges, about how to incorporate understandings of sexual violence into the during the pre-trial, trial, and sentencing phases of an adult victim sexual assault case.
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This webinar explores what it means to take a victim-centered, multidisciplinary approach to sexual assault cases and highlight crime victims’ rights.
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A description and order form for the self-directed DVD version of NJEP's curriculum Understanding Sexual Violence for judges and court personnel.
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The complete set of the eleven Information and Resource Sheets we have produced to educate courts, schools, parents, teens, and the community about teen dating violence.
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The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, works on behalf of tens of thousands of survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking across the country, representing state, tribal and national victim advocacy organizations, civil, human,and women’s rights advocates, and faith based organizations.
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