Rape, sexual assault, and violence are severe human rights violations, violating victims’ human rights to life, health, personal freedom and security, as well as their right not to be tortured or exposed to other inhuman, cruel or degrading treatment. Sexual violence impacts all people, but women—particularly trans women of color—suffer disproportionately as a consequence of systemic and structural inequality.
Ending sexual violence is essential for the success of every part of the sexual freedom movement. From reproductive justice to sex workers’ rights, from gender self-determination to queer and trans liberation, all fights for sexual freedom rely on freedom from sexual violence.
The Woodhull Freedom Foundation works to end sexual violence and to create alternative forms of accountability, including those offered by the restorative and transformative justice movements, in response to sexual violence so that survivors have options outside of the criminal legal system.
Summit Programs
Press Releases
- Woodhull Participates in Day of Action in Albany, NY 2023
- Woodhull Announces Human Rights Commissions 2021
- Woodhull Supports Rights of Sex Abuse Victims to Share Stories in Supreme Court Brief 2020
- Woodhull Freedom Foundation Announces Support of Efforts To Protect Health Care 2017
- Women’s Freedom From Violence in Jeopardy! 2012
- Human Rights Victory 2011
Coalition Sign-Ons
- Woodhull Urges United Nations to Address Violence Against Women and Girls
- Re: Concerns Regarding the TAKE IT DOWN Act
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
- Letter in Support of Rhode Island H6140
Decriminalize Sex Work
- Letter in Support of Rhode Island S0402
Decriminalize Sex Work
- Wood Hull Signs on to Letter on Sex Worker Pride Day to Human Rights Organizations Urging US Congress to Pass SAFE SEX Workers Study Act
Sex Workers Project
- Letter Opposing ALI Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses, Tentative Draft No. 5, May 4, 2021
- Global Civil Society Letter on Gender Persecution Policy
- Response to Shootings at Gold Massage Spa
Red Canary Song
- Support for the Community Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2019
Decrim Now DC