The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective is the only national coalition in the United States of women of color organizations and individuals working to ensure reproductive justice for communities of color. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the Collective was formed in 1997 by sixteen women of color organizations, and is now comprised of approximately 80 local, regional and national grassroots organizations. The mission of SisterSong is to amplify and strengthen the collective voices of Indigenous women and women of color to ensure reproductive justice through securing human rights.

SisterSong is currently working on our Reproductive Justice training program with the goal of increasing usage of the human rights framework by social justice organizations, both women of color and mainstream. We provide these trainings to local organizations as well as organizing regional trainings that bring together representatives from multiple organizations in a region. Our Reproductive Justice 101 trainings are designed to introduce the human rights framework to social justice activists, to help them view their work and their lives through a human rights lens, and to give them the initial tools to reframe their programmatic and advocacy work using the human rights framework.

In addition, we’re expanding our training program through the development of our RJ 102 training module, which will focus on opportunities and obstacles for incorporating the Reproductive Justice framework into movement-building work to make human rights functional for achieving concrete victories. This more intensive training will help participants re-orient their organizations, programs, and coalition building activities, to apply the framework to their local and regional organizing, and to strengthen their capacity to work with diverse movements to achieve palpable results. Finally, SisterSong is also working to increase the leadership and visibility of women of color from all ethnic groups in the U.S. human rights movement by linking women of color reproductive justice organizations with the emerging U.S. human rights movement.