The Third Annual NYC Candle Light Vigil for Missing and Murdered Women and Girls of Color

Woman Vow, Inc. Presents What About Us: The Third Annual NYC Candle Light Vigil for Missing and
Murdered Women and Girls of Color.

THE BRONX, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, November 3, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Woman Vow, Inc. & The NYS Taskforce for Missing & Murdered Women & Girls of Color presents our the Third NYC Annual Candle Light Vigil for Missing and Murdered Women and Girls on November 3, 2023, from 5:45 PM – 7:00 PM to be held on the Metropolis Corridor Park situated close to the fountain.

Do you know that In 2020, of the 268,884 ladies and girls who had been reported lacking, 90,333, or almost 34% of them, had been Black, in line with the Nationwide Crime Data Heart? In the meantime, Black ladies and girls account for solely about 15% of the U.S. feminine inhabitants, in line with census knowledge. The excessive charge at which ladies of shade go lacking is not mirrored in information protection of lacking individuals’ instances. Latinx persons are thought-about white.

In mild of so many latest lacking ladies of shade in New York and across the nation, Woman Vow is working to launch an NYS Taskforce consisting of a well-cultivated group to sort out the extended invisible wants of lacking and murdered BIPOC girls and ladies of shade. Sponsored by Senator Webb and Meeting Member Reyes (S4266A Webb/A5088A Reyes), $750,000 on this yr’s state price range was allotted to fund the NYS BIPOC Process Power laws, which might create a nine-person state panel to handle the epidemic of lacking and murdered Black, Indigenous, and Women and Girls of Color and to ensure that once they go lacking or are murdered, their instances are handled with the care and concern that they and their households deserve.

Moreover, the NYS BIPOC Process Power could be charged with growing insurance policies to extend group

training and to establish hubs the place abductions usually tend to happen. The Nationwide Taskforce for Missing and Murdered Women and Girls of Color is a response to fixing the pervasive silence when ladies/girls of shade are lacking, murdered, and unnoticed. Our mission is to arrange to advance past the problems of colorism and racial, financial, and structural oppression with communities on the helm of change.

Mentioned Senator Lea Webb: “We’ve an epidemic of lacking BIPOC Women and Girls within the US and in New York State the numbers maintain rising. At present, I stand with the advocates and households gathered collectively for the third annual Candle-Light Vigil for Missing and murdered Women and Girls of Color. I urge Governor Hochul to take vital steps towards a safer New York for all girls and ladies, by signing the NYS BIPOC Process Power Invoice (S4266A Webb/A5088A Reyes). This laws will set up a process drive to handle this hole in care and concern for BIPOC victims of abduction and human trafficking, educate communities to stop disappearances, and establish the foremost hubs in New York the place abductions happen. By signing the BIPOC Process Power laws, Governor Hochul might take vital steps towards a safer New York for all girls and ladies, addressing this epidemic of lacking and murdered girls and ladies.”

“Woman Vow is a beacon of hope for lacking girls and ladies of shade in New York,” stated Assemblywoman Karines Reyes, (D-Bronx), chair of the Meeting & Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Process Power. “In collaboration with them, we’re working to enhance our felony justice and social service helps for these girls and their households.”We are able to not wait on silent techniques to resolve group crises. The wants of ladies of shade typically go unsolved or under-prioritized, resulting in extended struggling for households and communities. Our household techniques are devastated. Legislative reform is critical to result in significant change to make sure the world is balanced for all of us – All we ask is to seek out us whereas we’re lacking and not once we are murdered – says Daybreak Rowe, Founder of NYS Taskforce and Woman Vow, Inc.

“Black girls and ladies deserve sources for their security. Traditionally, Black girls and ladies have been deprived however nonetheless have overcome large boundaries with little or nothing! Realizing this, it must be a precedence for lawmakers to help black girls and their households as a result of when black girls and ladies are protected, everyone seems to be protected!” Lakeisha Lee, Sister of Brittany Clardy – Minnesota State Taskforce

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