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| Formation | 1992 |
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| Purpose | Human rights |
Founders | Jessica Neuwirth Navanethem Pillay Feryal Gharahi |
Global Executive Director | S. Mona Sinha |
| Website | equalitynow.org |
Equality Now is a non-governmental organization founded in 1992 to advocate for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls. Equality Now works through public policy channels to create a just world for women and girls.[1] Through a combination of regional partnerships, community mobilization and legal advocacy the organization works to encourage governments to adopt, improve and enforce laws that protect and promote women and girls' rights around the world.
Equality Now's four main issue areas are ending sexual violence, ending harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation, ending sexual exploitation including the trafficking of women and girls, and ending discrimination in law, including the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States.
As of 2019,[update] the organization has offices in New York, United States, Nairobi, Kenya, London, United Kingdom, and Beirut, Lebanon.
Gloria Steinem serves as the chair emeritus of the board.
- ^ "Vision & Mission". Equality Now. Retrieved 2020-07-06.