The Advocates applies international human rights standards to advocate for women’s rights in the United States and around the world. The Advocates works with local organizations to document human rights abuses against women, including domestic violence, rape, employment discrimination, sexual harassment in the workplace, and trafficking in women and girls. The Advocates has partnered with organizations in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus,  Central Asia, Morocco, Nepal , Mexico, and Haiti, as well as in Minnesota.  Staff and volunteers conduct in-country research through close collaboration with local women's non-governmental organizations, using traditional human rights fact-finding methods to document violations of women's human rights. 

The Advocates also provides training on legal reform related to violence against women and consultation on new laws to legal professionals and women’s organizations in the United States and overseas.

The Advocates' Stop Violence Against Women website is an online forum for information, advocacy, and change.

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 Women's Human Rights Publications