Human rights experts Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald and Professor David L. Richards discuss the importance of recognizing Non-State Torture as a human rights violation and how it especially affects women. They present their framework models, share women’s art and stories, and their UN activism that exposed why a new legally binding treaty on violence against women is needed as suggested by visiting professor Rashida Manjoo, previous UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald are feminists, independent scholars, human right defenders, and grass root supporters since 1993, of women who have survived non-State torture (NST) and human trafficking victimizations beginning in their youngest of years or as adults. As published authors and researchers with nursing backgrounds, they co-founded Persons Against Non-State Torture campaign, developing educational resources that are freely available to all. David L. Richards, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, with appointments in both the Department of Political Science and the Human Rights Institute. His published body of work on human rights includes more than two-dozen studies of gender-violence law, the measurement of government respect for human rights, women’s political/social/economic rights, and public support for torture, among others. He has also authored reports for governments and international organizations. David is the curator of Torture Blog (http://tortureblog.org) and currently working on a project studying the language of torture in narratives, as well as another project focused on best-practices in teaching college students about torture.