Let's stop treating violence against women as just a woman's issue. Whether it's hundreds of thousands of women being brutalized in the United States and around the world, or just a single friend whose boyfriend took advantage of her one night - when a woman is attacked on account of her gender, it is a human rights issue. And so long as it continues, the conscience of our nation cannot rest.

You can read the op-ed piece he wrote for the Chicago Defender on this issue here.

Gillian Parrillo
SacWomen