HISTORY

-Domestic violence, FGM, child marriage, rape

-not part of the of established human rights organizations
-Jessica Neuwrith
-Navanethem Pillay
-Feryal Gharahi
-1992- foundation of Equality Now- in New York
-aim: protect + promote the human rights of women
-acts of violence against women = violatons of the fundamental
human rights
-Equality Now- build consciousness
-offices: New York, Nairobi, Kenya, London, Lebanon
(2019)
 Early Success

-Equality Now- global campaign- to combat FGM

- UNICEF joined- $91 million to end FGM

-series of campaigns against U.S. companies

-sex tourism- crime

-campaign- end the unequally treatment of men and

women (1999)
-more and more organizations joined

-from a small group –into a global organization

 mission statement!
Achieve legal and • Legal advocacy-
systemic change that • providing the resources needed
addresses violence
and discrimination through legal aid and championing
against women and to change oppressive laws
girls around the
world.
• Regional partnership-
• Having people on the ground that
work closely to make real change
in their communities
• Community mobilization-
• Defining the problem
• Designing strategies to combat the
problem
• Engaging the community to
implement the objectives
 • Categorize rape as a crime against a person’s
Equality now is right to bodily integrity, removing references
to honor and morality
campaigning for laws to; • Ensure the definition of rape is based on
consent and a wide range of coercive
circumstances, and not reliant on the use of
force, threats, or deception 
• Ensure all forms of non-consensual sexual acts
are covered by the definition of sexual violence
• Ensure all types of sexual violence are
criminalized, including marital rape
• Remove provisions which allow for a
perpetrator to escape punishment by
marrying their victim
• Repeal provisions that provide lenient
sentences for a man who kills his female
relatives.  
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SEXUAL TRAFFICKING
VIOLENCE Sexual Exploitation in
Travel and Tourism
Paraguay
Equality Now tackles
Article 137 of the sexual exploitation in
Paraguay Penal Code travel and tourism,
provides a lower penalty often called “sex
for sexual offences against tourism”, a global issue
adolescent girls between that cuts across
the ages of 14 - 16 than national borders and
for rape of a child or a state lines.
woman.

ACHIEVE
LEGAL
EQUALITY
Kuwait
allows girls as young as 15
Article 182 of Kuwait’s Law
no. 16 of 1960 promulgating
the Penal Code allows an
abductor to escape
punishment if he marries the
person that he abducted. 
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HARMFUL
PRACTICES
United States 
Section 93 of the
Mississippi Code 1972
years old to be married
with parental consent,
while prohibiting the
marriage of boys under
the age of 17.
Some stories to be heard:

Case of Serat-Canada-FGM
text

Case of Salome-Georgia-
sexual violence

Case of Rebecca-the UK-

prostitution
Why gender equality?

-1 in 3 women will text

experience physical or
sexual violence
-This equality bad for
everyone
-How women-men treated-
level of peacefulness
-Need to have a voice to be
heard
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Source:
https://www.equalitynow.org/