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The article reports, “Inside a small Steubenville, Ohio, courtroom filled with sobbing and exhausting emotion, Judge Thomas Lipps found Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond guilty Sunday of raping an intoxicated 16-year-old girl.

Today is National NO MORE Day, marking the the public launch of the country’s first unifying awareness symbol against domestic violence and sexual assault. Today we are joining others in saying NO MORE, and renewing our commitment to teach our families, friends, partners, neighbors, colleagues, and communities how to prevent, recognize, and respond to domestic and sexual violence.

This blog reports, “Sunday marks Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and we are providing an update on the Working Group’s progress. As co-chairs, we are personally committed to this work, having first-hand community and clinical experience in seeing and treating the devastating effects violence has on the lives of women and their families.”

“‘This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time,’ he continued, ‘but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.'”

The article reports, “Transgender women in Latin America also face far more difficulties when it comes to accessing HIV prevention and care, as well as to medical services, due to transphobia, an unchecked form of discrimination, which makes these women targets for discrimination, violence and sexual abuse.”

“Women’s History Month is a time to remember those who fought to make that freedom as real for our daughters as for our sons. Written out of the promise of the franchise, they were women who reached up to close the gap between what America was and what it could be. They were driven by a faith that our Union could extend true equality to every citizen willing to claim it.