• Ending Discrimination of Women Worldwide

    Ending Discrimination of Women Worldwide

    Ending discrimination globally starts locally. South Los Angeles NOW is working to get the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women of CEDAW ratified in Los Angeles.

  • Building Leadership

    Building Leadership

    Having strong female leaders that hold up and raise women’s issues is vital the success of women and girls. South Los Angeles NOW is currently developing a leadership program to cultivate young women and girls into leadership positions.

  • Protecting Our Health

    Protecting Our Health

    South Los Angeles NOW believes that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and must enjoy the equal protection of the law against discrimination based on their sexuality, sex, gender, race, color, age, ethnicity, disability, language, religion, immigration status, national or social origin, or other status.

  • Reproductive Health and Justice

    Reproductive Health and Justice

    South Los Angeles approaches reproductive health and access from a reproductive justice framework. Reproductive Justice defined here as: is the complete physical, mental, spiritual, political, economic, and social well-being of women and girls, and will be achieved when women and girls have the economic, social and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, sexuality and reproduction for ourselves, our families, and our communities in all areas of our lives.

  • Working at the intersections

    Working at the intersections

    What we eat, drink, breathe, put on and play can all impact our health. South Los Angeles has particular environmental health and justice factors that is vital to ending health disparities.

  • Intimate Partner Violence

    Intimate Partner Violence

    Intimate Partner Violence is a silent epidemic plaguing Los Angeles families with fatal consequences. According to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), as many as 1 in 4 women will be abused by an intimate partner during her lifetime. Join us as we push to end intimate partner violence

  • South LA NOW

    South LA NOW

    South LA NOW with our fellow NOW sister Amy Wakeland and Friend

  • South Los Angeles NOW supports Eric Garcetti for Mayor

    South Los Angeles NOW supports Eric Garcetti for Mayor

    Vote LA, May 21, 2013

  • Open House Chapter Meeting, May 13th

    Open House Chapter Meeting, May 13th

    The South Los Angeles Chapter is having an Open House, this Monday May 13th, 2013. Please be contact Nourbese at nourbese@southlanow.org if you would like RSVP for the event

  Women’s lives are not composed along linear lines, rather we live at the crossroads of race and gender inequity, economic hardships, low employment and for many, a lack of access to health care options. South LA NOW is addressing theses issues by leveraging the strengths of South LA  community and neighborhood identity, parent involvement, community based organizations, and civic engagement – to empower women towards wellness.