Malika Saada Saar's blog
Helping "Invisible" Mothers and Their Families
by Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
April 21, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
Sentencing alternatives for incarcerated mothers, such as family-based treatment programs, promote evidence-based outcomes and cost-effective approaches--and honors the sacred ties between mothers and their children.
In Labor and In Chains
by Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
October 6, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)
Using restraints on women in prison during labor and delivery is cruel, inhumane and degrading and rarely justified on security grounds. Our video profiles a woman shackled during childbirth.
The Common Ground Honor Code
by Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
July 3, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
An Open Letter to Chris Brown and Rihanna
by Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
March 10, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
To Be Free from Gender Violence: Our Most Basic Human Right
by Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
October 29, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
Mothering as a Reproductive Right
by Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
December 11, 2007 - 9:18am (Print)
Where is the reproductive rights community in the over-incarceration of mothers and the almost systematic severance in the mother and child relationship as a result of maternal incarceration?
A New Reproductive Rights Discourse
by Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights
October 29, 2007 - 7:03am (Print)
A new reproductive health movement must include language about mothering with dignity. For vulnerable mothers, mothering with dignity means opportunities to heal from sexual violence, child welfare practices, education, and alternative sentencing to maternal incarceration and sentencing reform.
