Dorchen Leidholdt
Female, Person
Who is Dorchen Leidholdt?
Dorchen A. Leidholdt is an activist and leader in the feminist movement against violence against women. Since the mid-1970s, she has counseled and advocated for rape victims, organized against "the media’s promotion of violence against women", served on the legal team for the plaintiff in a precedent-setting sexual harassment case, founded an international nongovernmental organization fighting trafficking in women and children, directed the nation’s largest legal services program for victims of domestic violence, advocated for the enactment and implementation of laws that further the rights of abused women, and represented hundreds of women victimized by intimate partner violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, the threat of honor killing, female genital mutilation, forced and child marriage, and the internet bride trade.
Leidholdt has lectured internationally on issues of violence against women and has published articles, book chapters, and two anthologies.
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- United States of America
- Education
- New York University School of Law
- University of Virginia
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on July 23, 2013
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