The allegations of a gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house have raised a question many students never ask until they need the answer: What is my college required …
Federal law prohibits domestic abusers from possessing firearms, but that prohibition is only as strong as the mechanism a state builds around it. Nationally, gun possession is banned for people …
The recent civil lawsuit filed by a former Cornell student alleging sexual assault demonstrates that survivors of campus sexual assault have three paths to justice. Our explainer breaks down how …
WRDI Watch is the Women’s Rights Data Initiative’s bi-weekly newsletter tracking how laws, policies, and court decisions are shaping women’s rights across the United States. Most issues highlight key developments we’re monitoring, while occasional special editions take a deeper look at emerging trends, major policy shifts, or important state stories.
This week, I found myself sitting with something I haven’t felt in a while—the weight of everything happening across reproductive health policy.
The last time I felt this …
Note from Julie
Hi — I’m Julie, founder of the Women’s Rights Data Initiative.
I started WRDI because I was struggling to understand what was actually happening to women’ …
