Empower leaders whose lives were upended by discriminatory laws.

Dear John

As we’ve shared with you in recent letters and emails, and through the 16 Days of Activism and updates on legislation we’ve overturned, you have truly helped to change laws that relegate women and children to second-class status.

But now more than ever, we need your help.

As I write this email to you, more than a billion girls under 18 are poised to become the greatest generation of leaders in history. Your gifts to Equality Now made a real impact in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence.

To give women and girls a more hopeful future, I ask you to make a generous year-end gift today. Your support will make an even greater difference now, as our friends at InMaat Foundation are generously matching gifts, dollar-for-dollar, with a challenge grant of up to $100,000.

Please consider making a gift of $50, $100, or even $250 (or more) to Equality Now today - because that support will turn into $100, $200 or $500 if received by December 31.

Don’t delay! There are just 9 days left to multiply the impact of your support.
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Equality Now will put your gift to immediate use to embed gender equality in the law around the world.

With your gift, you stand with brave young leaders whose lives were upended by discriminatory laws. Here are three examples of how Equality Now has supported young women to break barriers and change the system for good:
Jaha Dukureh endured female genital mutilation (FGM) in The Gambia when she was a little more than a week old. While she was still a teen, she took her story public and began her association with Equality Now. Her tireless activism has led to the banning of female genital mutilation in The Gambia. Equality Now continues to work with Jaha to end FGM everywhere.
Zainub Afinnih, a French high school student, heard the horrific story of Noura Hussein, a Sudanese teenager, and took action to help change history. Forced by her father to marry, Noura’s husband raped her while male relatives held her down. She stabbed him in self-defense. Found guilty of murder, her sentence was death by hanging. Zainub used the power of social media to demand #JusticeForNoura. Equality Now amplified Zainub’s message, inspiring 1,745,814 calls for justice around the world, supported local lawyers, women’s rights activists, and Noura herself. As a result, Noura’s sentence was commuted, and her case spotlighted the issues of child and forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan.
In her home country of Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai began standing up for girls’ right to education. In retaliation, she and two other girls were shot while they were riding a bus. Malala refused to be silenced, and the world took notice. After pressure from Equality Now and others, the Pakistan government jailed the shooters and passed laws against violent extremists blowing up girls’ schools. We continue to honor Malala and her work.

Like Jaha, Zainub, and Malala, we won’t sit back and wait for equality to arrive! Please join our efforts to fight oppression by changing religious and customary laws and practices that deny women and girls their rights. Because when you change the law, you can change everything.
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The future is in the hands of the world’s girls and women. That is why Equality Now fights and changes laws that hurt them. But to prevail, your generous support is essential. In the name of girls everywhere, I implore you to send your most generous gift today.

Don’t miss your chance to make twice the impact before December 31.

Thank you for serving as Equality Now’s partner in changing unjust laws.
In solidarity,

Yasmeen Hassan
Global Executive Director

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