Equality Now
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Headquarters Location: New York, NY
Founded: 1992
Mission: Equality Now works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls around the world. Working with grassroots women’s and human rights organizations and individual activists since 1992, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and mobilizes international action to support efforts to stop these abuses.
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violence against women, women's human rights, grassroots, violence, discrimination, abuse, advocacy, awareness, campaigns, litigation, female genital mutilation, sexual violence, trafficking, discrimination
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Leadership
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Leadership
Yasmeen Hassan.
Yasmeen Hassan became the Global Director of Equality Now in 2011 after having served as Deputy Executive Director and Director of Programs for three years. Before joining the organization, Ms. Hassan was with the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women where she worked on the implementation of CEDAW and the Secretary-General’s study on violence against women. She has…
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Financial Data
Overhead Ratio:
16.51%
Total Revenue:
$3,125,985
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Contact Info
Website:
E-Mail:
info AT equalitynow.org
Phone:
1-212-586-0906
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Address:
PO Box 20646
Columbus Circle Station
New York, NY 10023, USA
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Story:
In our global efforts to secure women’s rights, strategies we use include:
international advocacy through the Women’s Action Network, with membership of over 35,000 groups and individuals in over 160 countries who call on governments to guarantee women’s rights;
campaigns to raise awareness by highlighting individual cases of pervasive and severe violations against women and girls;
building partnerships and coalitions with grassroots women’s rights groups to amplify local and global advocacy;
strengthening international and regional human rights law and mechanisms that address the rights of women and girls;
conducting strategic litigation at national, regional and international levels to establish legal precedents on women’s and girls’ rights;
mobilizing financial and capacity-building support for partners on the ground;
using the media to bring these stories to the public.
Our work is focused into four main program areas:
Discrimination in Law
Sexual Violence
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Trafficking
Expert Reviews of Equality Now
Evidence of Impact Summary:
Equality Now supports women effect by violence though knowledgeable, pro-bono legal support. Additionally, they work in the legal and policy arenas to push forward a global human rights agenda.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Equality Now has been lead for many years by a dynamic executive director, experts also point out that they have committed staff, and are well networked. Additionally, it has an eye toward diversity. The website, translated into four languages, and diverse staff reflect this.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Experts suggested that Equality Now try to avoid taking on more work than it has the capacity to handle. Additionally, some suggest that the organization expand its work by reaching out to main stream investigative reporters. Another expert suggest that Equality Now, and similar organizations, may want to rethink its strategic planning process to be sure that it reflects a public good perspective.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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They offer very knowledgeable and principle advocacy. They are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and take on the hardest issues there are when fighting against violence against women. They take a principled stand on prostitution, pornography, those willing to include commercialized sexual exploitation in their work. They are a model human rights organization. | ||
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Equality Now is an indispensable feminist legal think tank, policy institute, and advocate for global gender equality. Their work has indefatigable courage, intellectual rigor, and media savviness. They have conducted undercover exposes of mail-order bride services and sex tours that have put the operators in prison, and have sustained the global campaign against FGM since Beijing in 1995 (and probably earlier). Their constant presence and voice at the United Nations has influenced the creation of UN Women, elevated the monitoring and accountability of nations and UN agencies re CEDAW, Resolution 1325, and MDG3, and ensured that eloquent and feminist legal minds are privy to high-level leaders on behalf of the global women's movement. But the most important impact of Equality Now's tireless campaign against laws discriminatory to women has been the reversal and reform of literally dozens of these laws in countries from Algeria to Bangladesh, Poland to Peru, Kuwait to Senegal. National women's NGOs around the world take advantage of the briefs, protocols and advocacy documents issued by Equality Now in their own campaigns, and we always know where to turn to get the information and recommendations right. | ||
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It works to assist victims of violence and abuse by helping them seek access to justice via the provisioning of pro-bono and high-quality legal services. | ||
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Up until very recently, their strength was leadership. The ED hands down represents the qualities she looks for in leadership- vision, courage, integrity, and making sure not to be ego-based. I don’t know who are going to hire now. ED been at the helm the last 10 years. A very well run organization. Their finances can withstand the toughest of scrutiny. They've been around for quite a while. I've been in their office they are well staffed and impressive advocacy staff. Equality Now is a high impact organization led by highly knowledgeable and talented women's rights leaders. | ||
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Equality Now is one of the few global organizations to maintain its website and publications in four languages, including Arabic. This inclusiveness is also reflected in the diversity of the staff, holding offices in Nairobi, New York, and London. | ||
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They have committed staff and large networks. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Equality Now just underwent a strategic planning processes. I see this dynamic: A lot of money is spent (thousands of dollars) to hire these professional strategic planners and they come in from a for-profit mindset and they look at these nonprofits and they look at their operations and staff members like chess pieces on a chess board. I find that trend very troubling. | ||
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Equality Now is excellent. My only suggestion would be to expand their public profile into mainstream newspapers, perhaps by developing relationships with investigative reporters. Also, they could leverage their impact by training female and male parliamentarians on the reform of discriminatory laws in their countries. | ||
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At times, the organization takes on too much and is unable to handle the high-demand. | ||
Leadership
Yasmeen Hassan
Global Director
Global Director
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