March 24, 2025 Assemblymember Nick Schultz Chair, Assembly Public Safety Committee 1020 N Street, Room 111 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Opposition to AB-379 (Krell) Criminalizing “loitering” Dear Chair Schultz: On behalf of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, I write to express…
RE: Support for S278 and S296 To the Senate Judiciary Committee, The Woodhull Freedom Foundation would like to strongly support S278 and S296. These two bills make amendments to Rhode Island’s Commercial Sexual Activity statutes to protect the health, safety,…
As a human rights organization working to protect the fundamental human right to sexual freedom, it’s no surprise that we’ve written repeatedly about age verification laws, which facilitate censorship of information critical to the exercise of our rights. In the…
To the Senate Judiciary Committee, The Woodhull Freedom Foundation strongly supports S810, which would decriminalize commercial sexual activity. The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is a national human rights organization focused on affirming sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. Since we…
Update 5/6/2025: On May 5, 2025, Woodhull Freedom Foundation sent additional input to Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (SR) on Violence Against Women and Girls to inform her forthcoming report "Forms of Sex-Based Violence Against Women and Girls:…
Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Advocates for the passage of the “Cecilia’s Act for Rights in the Sex Trades”, New York State Senate Bill S2513 and Assembly Bill A3251 relating to the decriminalization of sex work The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is…
February 25, 2025 Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Support A.1029 (Kelles) / S.3967 (Sepulveda) Dear Legislator: The Woodhull Freedom Foundation supports A.1029/S.3967, legislation to enable victims and witnesses to a crime to be able to seek help without fear of being…
Trump is back in office (which perhaps bears no reminding) – and with that come his draconian policies, both old and new, including the anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule. The global gag rule itself is some 40…
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.