Creating Safe And Healthy Communities
The ability to live safely in one’s community is one of the most basic elements of a dignified life. However, across the United States, young people – particularly young women, young people of color, immigrant youth, and LGBTQIA+ youth – are faced with active threats to their safety: sexual violence, discriminatory policing, immigration enforcement, and environmental degradation are daily and persistent in young people’s lives.
To ensure the safety of all young people, we need policies that support healthy, safe, and secure families and communities.
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Support the Young People’s Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda
Nov 16, 2024
Our view of liberation is a world in which we can live with justice, love freely, express our gender and sexuality, and define and create families of our choosing. The Young People’s Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda is a bold agenda that centers the needs and voices of young adults, particularly those who are LGBTQIA+ and people of …
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Advocates, Artists, and Students Rally for Reproductive Justice in Atlanta
Oct 22, 2024
/ Press Release
Atlanta — On Saturday, October 19, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, and URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, Representative Dr. Jasmine Clark (HD 108), and local activists and artists came together in Atlanta to celebrate the voices of young Latine, Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), …
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URGE Activists Attend Advocacy Day in Montgomery Alabama to Have their Voices Heard by Legislators
Apr 09, 2024
/ Press Release
MONTGOMERY, AL – Today, URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity, in partnership with Alabama Campaign for Adolescent Sexual Health (ACASH) and AIDS Alabama, convened for Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy Day at the State House in Montgomery. Advocacy Day was attended by over 100 activists having their voices heard by their state legislators. URGE, …
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