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The Center for Women Policy Studies was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first feminist policy analysis, research and advocacy institution.

Our mission today is what it was then — to shape public policy to improve women’s lives.

Women's Health

Women & Poverty

US Foreign Policy & Its Impact on Women

Women Engaging Globally

Post Election Action Convening on US Foreign Policy

GlobalPOWER®

"No More Business as Usual"

The Barbara Waxman Fiduccia Papers on Women and Girls with Disabilities

Contract with Women of the USA®

The Contract sets out 12 key principles for women’s human rights. The Center works with elected officials in all 50 states to bring its promises home to women and girls in the USA.

US Policy Advocacy to Combat Trafficking (US PACT)

The Center’s leadership enables state legislators throughout the United States to craft state anti-trafficking laws and policies.

The US PACT Clearinghouse includes:

Interactive map of the United States with information on state policies and federal prosecutions on international human trafficking into the United States .
US PACT clearinghouse: Searchable annotated bibliography that includes an extensive collection of government publications, academic journals, non-governmental reports and books. This resource is currently in the process of being updated and will be available in early 2009.

Read the Center's Report Card on State Action to Combat International Trafficking, the first ever state-by-state analysis of state legislatures’ efforts to confront trafficking of women and girls into the United States.

Read the latest Center E-News HERE!

Women State Legislators Take A Stand for Reproductive Health Services in
National Health Care Reform

Read the letter signed by almost 100 legislators and former legislators that urges Congress to
"explicitly include all reproductive health care services among the "essential benefits" in any legislation they enact."

The Center is proud to announce the
U.S. women State Legislators
who will participate in the 2009
Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators
in Washington, DC, July 12 - 16.

Click here to learn more about the participants and program.

The Center convened the
2009 Strategic Action Convening
on reproductive rights and justice
in Washington, DC, June 12 - 14.

Click here to learn more about the participants and program.

HIV/AIDS is a women's epidemic worldwide...read more.