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Promoting Economic Justice for Women

03/10/2020

Katy was determined to take back control of her life.

After years of abuse from her husband, she knew that it was time to leave. She did everything she could to stay safe—keeping her location confidential, blocking him on social media, asking her family not to tell him where she was—and began to create an independent existence.

The Real World Implications of #MeToo – Transforming the Legal Ecosystem Series Part VIII

12/17/2019

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, Viacom hosted the eighth roundtable discussion in the series “The Real-World Implications of #MeToo-Transforming the Legal Ecosystem” organized by FiscalNote, Her Justice and Thomson Reuters.

Why Marital Identity Theft Is So Hard To Fight

12/02/2019

Her Justice Equal Justice Works Fellow Naomi Young was interviewed by Law360 about financial abuse and marital identity theft

Her Justice on “In Focus with Cheryl Wills”

11/04/2019

Her Justice Managing Policy Attorney Rachel Braunstein (L) appeared with host Cheryl Wills (R) and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark (center) on “In Focus with Cheryl Wills” on Spectrum News NY1 discussing a lesser known type of intimate partner violence – financial abuse.

Her Justice in Crain’s

09/10/2019

Our 2019 Red Party was featured in Crain’s New York Business!

Her Justice in Crain’s

06/20/2019

Our 2019 Annual Photography Auction & Benefit was featured in Crain’s New York Business!

2019 Annual Photography Auction & Benefit featured in the New York Law Journal

05/13/2019

Our 2019 Photography Auction & Benefit was featured in the May 13 issue of the New York Law Journal.

Civil-rights groups show support for Paul Haggis’ rape accuser

05/09/2019

Read Page Six and Fox News coverage of the amicus brief filing by eleven civil-rights organizations — led by Her Justice — in support of Haleigh Breest, the publicist who accused Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis of rape.

Fear Of ICE Is Silencing Domestic Abuse Victims, Study Shows

04/11/2019

Director of Legal Services Hamra Ahmad is quoted in a Patch.com piece on the new report released by the ICE Out of Courts Coalition, of which Her Justice is a member.

One Year Later – The Aftermath of the Department of Justice Changing the Definition of Domestic Violence

04/01/2019

Senior Staff Attorney Esther Limb spoke with Lauren Lantry, a freelance journalist with Uptown Radio, about the change in the definition of domestic violence on the Dept. of Justice website.