Unsafe by Design: The Brutal and Deadly Impact of Policing and ICE on Black and Brown Women in America

A Statement submitted to the United Nations for the 70th Annual Commission on the Status of Women.

Black and Brown women in the United States face systemic harm through policing, incarceration, and immigration enforcement. These harms are gendered, racialized, and rooted in histories of colonial control, slavery, and patriarchal governance. From lethal police encounters to immigration raids, women’s bodies, labor, and behavior are subject to state violence. The crisis of gendered state violence in the United States falls squarely within multiple human rights frameworks.

This statement was written by Barbara Horne, Board Member of AAPPA Group and Athletes United for Peace.