Dear JOhn,

With your support, we are mightier than misogyny.

This #GivingTuesday we want to show misogyny who’s boss and reclaim the rights of women and girls. Will you join us?

At Equality Now, we know that discriminatory laws don’t reverse themselves and change is not possible unless we all work together. This year, your support has led to great achievements for women and girls around the world:

1. On 2 December, Equality Now was awarded the International Gender Equality Prize by the Government of Finland (pictured above). Finland’s Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Equality, Thomas Blomqvist, presented the award to Equality Now’s Global Executive Director, Yasmeen Hassan, in the city of Tampere, Finland. 

2. In Tanzania, along with our partners, we worked to establish that child marriage is unconstitutional and that marriage under the age of 18 is illegal for both boys and girls.

3. We facilitated young Bolivian survivors of rape to address the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to set regional standards on the rights and treatment of adolescent girls in Latin America.  

4. In the United States, we are working closely with partners in Virginia, which is poised to be the 38th and final state necessary to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and guarantee full equality for women in the U.S. Constitution.

We are tenacious in our mission to ensure that every woman and girl is equal. It is a long journey but our hope comes from the courage of survivors we work with, whose voices change the status quo. 

And it comes from you, as we stand together to uphold the ideal that every woman should live safe, fearless and free. 

Join us this Giving Tuesday to support women and girls and show misogyny who’s boss!

In solidarity,

Evelyn Chen
Director of Development