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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.

Read the Center's Resource Guide for State Legislators: Model Provisions for State Anti-Trafficking Laws, the first comprehensive set of model laws that cover every aspect of anti-trafficking policy.

Read the latest Center E-News!

President Obama Declares
January 2010 as
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Click here to read the Presidential Proclamation and learn more about the Center's decade of work on international trafficking of women and girls as a violation of women’s most basic human rights.

Read the Center's updated
State Anti-Trafficking Laws Fact Sheet and learn which states passed laws in 2009

The Center launches the
South Asia Initiative on Women and HIV/AIDS Policymaking.

Click here to learn about the program and particicpants.

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

Read the letter signed by more than 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."