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  Equality Now - Bryna Subherwal · [email protected]
February 3, 2020 at 4:46 PM

NEWS: Making Equality Reality

Equality Now Dear JOhn, It is officially the second month of 2020 and our team of human rights lawyers and advocates have been hard at work across the world, working with hundreds of officials, journalists and survivors. Here’s a round up of what we’ve been doing to #MakeEqualityA…
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  Bryna Subherwal - Equality Now · [email protected]
January 25, 2020 at 2:00 PM

Equality Now Recommends 🎬📚🎧

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Was one of your new year’s resolutions to consume more #feminist content? Well we have you covered! Here’s your first 2020 round up of recommendations from our staff and supporters for books, movies, TV shows, podcasts and more that act as a megaphone to wo…
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  Equality Now - Yasmeen Hassan · [email protected]
January 23, 2020 at 8:07 PM

It takes great courage...

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Over the years, I have worked with many survivors of sexual violence and one of the most powerful ways to support them is to listen to them and believe them. Survivors have an incredibly difficult time coming forward and face a series of obstacles from the …
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  Equality Now - Divya Srinivasan · [email protected]
January 16, 2020 at 12:00 PM

Marital Rape is Rape

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Marital rape is not a crime in India. It needs to be. TAKE ACTION NOW Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code explicitly allows a man to rape his adult wife: “Sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife... is not rape.” Laws which permit …
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  Equality Now - Emma Thompson · [email protected]
January 9, 2020 at 12:36 PM

We march once again. STAND UP, FIGHT BACK

Equality Now Dear JOhn, When our rights are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK. We are proud to be partnering with Women’s March Global on 18th Jan 2020 for the March For Our Human Rights - the first women's rights march of the new decade.  This year’s March for Ou…
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  Equality Now - Evelyn Chen · [email protected]
December 31, 2019 at 9:00 PM

Before midnight

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Today is your last chance to invest in the rights of women and girls in 2019. Give the gift of gender equality to yourself and every woman and girl in your life. Here in the U.S. we are fighting for equality under the Constitution, to eliminate child marri…
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  Equality Now - Yasmeen Hassan · [email protected]
December 31, 2019 at 2:00 PM

Let's end 2019 on a high note!

Equality Now Dear JOhn, At the end of another eventful year, I wanted to say thank you for all that you do to ignite, facilitate and support the movement for equality for women and girls. Supporters like you help us win victories for women and girls every day that add up to signi…
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  Equality Now - Evelyn Chen · [email protected]
December 30, 2019 at 8:00 PM

There's still time to invest in women & girls in 2019

Equality Now Dear JOhn, In the past few weeks, you’ve heard stories of women and girls who have faced discrimination, violence and legal inequality. For Equality Now to protect the rights of these women and girls and help them gain justice, we need your support. A donation to Equ…
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  Equality Now - Kate Kelly · [email protected]
December 27, 2019 at 1:00 PM

We are mightier than constitutional inequality.

Equality Now Dear JOhn, We are mightier than constitutional inequality. Women’s rights are under attack in the United States—from reproductive rights to protections against sexual assault and harassment. This is a constitutional crisis and the only permanent solution is the Equal …
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  Kate Kelly - Equality Now · [email protected]
December 23, 2019 at 4:17 PM

The Utah activists fighting for the ERA

Equality Now   Dear JOhn Thanks to tireless grassroots activism we are headed into 2020 with Virginia on the verge of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment. Equality Now supported activists across the state to inform people, change their minds, and help usher in a much more ERA-frie…
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  Equality Now- Evelyn Chen · [email protected]
December 21, 2019 at 8:00 PM

We are mightier together.

Equality Now JOhn, we are mightier together. Your support is changing lives. Together we have brought issues like sexual violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation and sex trafficking to the forefront of legal, media, and popular attention. You have helped us abolish ove…
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  Equality Now - Tamar Dekanosidze · [email protected]
December 18, 2019 at 1:00 PM

Would wearing tights have changed anything?

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Mightier than an out-dated system. This is Salome's story. Would wearing tights have meant I wouldn’t have been attacked? One night, in my hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia, I was walking back from work when a man and two boys started catcalling me. Suddenly the…
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  Equality Now - Flavia Mwangovya · [email protected]
December 13, 2019 at 1:00 PM

She is mightier than FGM.

Equality Now Dear JOhn, She is mightier than female genital mutilation. This is Caroline's* story. When I was 10 years old my father came to get me from my grandmother’s home. At 4am, I and three other girls were woken by my father who informed us that we were going to be cut beca…
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  Equality Now - Judy Gitau · [email protected]
December 12, 2019 at 8:31 PM

A VICTORY FOR THE GIRLS. If you deny a girl her education, we’ll see you in court.

Equality Now Dear JOhn, A victory for the girls of Sierra Leone I was in court earlier today when the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice ruled that the government of Sierra Leone breached the right of girls to education by prohibiting pregnant gir…
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  Equality Now - Yasmeen Hassan · [email protected]
December 10, 2019 at 2:00 PM

Gender equality isn’t just good for women.

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Human Rights Day was first celebrated in 1950. When Equality Now was formed in 1992, human rights abuses that happened to men were "political" and of international concern, while violations against women were considered "cultural" and of local concern. Dome…
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  Equality Now - Evelyn Chen · [email protected]
December 3, 2019 at 10:00 PM

An equal world for women & girls - let’s meet our goal together

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Giving Tuesday is almost over! Donate Today Your donation today will further our work to end sexual violence, harmful practices, legal inequality and sexual exploitation of women and girls. Your gift to Equality Now will support our legal team to change …
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  Equality Now - Evelyn Chen · [email protected]
December 3, 2019 at 1:01 PM

Mightier than misogyny

Equality Now 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? Donate Today At Equality Now, we know that discriminatory laws don’t reverse themselves…
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  Equality Now · [email protected]
November 29, 2019 at 10:00 AM

BUY ONE GET ONE TREE: Peace, love & equality

Equality Now Hi JOhn, Black Friday is upon us and this year we've got a different kind of offer for you. Buy one, get one tree! We’ve launched a new range of Peace, Love and Equality Now tees and sweatshirts, and until next Tuesday we’ll plant a tree for every order too. Shop N…
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  Equality Now - Niki Kandirikirira · [email protected]
November 27, 2019 at 1:00 PM

The Women’s Movement: Defining a new inclusive future

Equality Now Dear JOhn, As January 2020 falls into view - I wanted to share with you, as a fellow activist, some thoughts on what next year might hold for the women’s rights movement and for our work here at Equality Now. The environmental crisis, the struggle for control of finit…
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  Equality Now · [email protected]
November 25, 2019 at 7:45 PM

Just around the corner

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Giving Tuesday is just around the corner! Mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 3 and help reclaim the rights of women and girls all around you. At Equality Now, we know that laws don’t reverse themselves and change is not possible unless we all work to…
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  Yasmeen Hassan - Equality Now · [email protected]
November 21, 2019 at 9:40 PM

What a night celebrating the arts, activism, literature and women’s rights!

Equality Now ? Dear?JOhn, Changing laws and mindsets is only possible through persistent activism and on Tuesday night at our annual Make Equality Reality Gala?we honored Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Scarlett Curtis, who use the written word to do just that.The positive energy in t…
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  Equality Now - Alexandra Patsalides · [email protected]
November 20, 2019 at 2:29 PM

States promised to protect children’s rights. They are failing.

Equality Now JOhn,  30 years ago the Berlin Wall was dismantled and the world wide web was created. We have made incredible progress in complex areas. But in some straightforward issues, like protecting the rights of children, progress has stalled. Today is the 30th anniversary of…
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  Equality Now - Bryna Subherwal · [email protected]
November 9, 2019 at 2:00 PM

NEWS: Making Equality Reality

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Our team of human rights lawyers and advocates have been hard at work across the world, speaking with hundreds of officials, journalists and survivors. Here’s a round up of what we’ve been doing to make equality a reality with your support. The Beijing Pla…
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  Bryna Subherwal - Equality Now · [email protected]
October 30, 2019 at 4:27 PM

Equality Now Recommends 🎬📚🎧

Equality Now Dear JOhn, What are you reading or listening to these days? Do you find yourself at the end of a good book or an interesting podcast and wonder what should come next? Well good news, it’s time for your latest round up of recommendations from our staff and supporters …
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  Equality Now - Jean Paul Murunga · [email protected]
October 24, 2019 at 6:00 AM

VICTORY: Landmark ruling against child marriage upheld in Tanzania

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Yesterday, the Tanzania Court of Appeal upheld the landmark 2016 ruling by the High Court against child marriage. A landmark ruling demanding girls have equal protection under the law. In 2016, Rebeca Gyumi, Director of our partner Msichana Initiative, bro…
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  Equality Now - Flavia Mwangovya · [email protected]
October 11, 2019 at 2:00 PM

Girls are not “assets”

Equality Now Dear JOhn, It’s International Day of the Girl. We’ve got work to do.  Child marriage violates girls' rights and limits them from living up to their full potential. 12 million girls are married in childhood every year, and far too often this is allowed by law.  Child…
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  Equality Now - Bárbara Jiménez-Santiago · [email protected]
October 6, 2019 at 4:10 PM

5 minutes to improve our relationship

Equality Now Dear JOhn, We would be nothing without the support of people like you.  Your voice matters. We want to hear it. We want to know: What matters to you? How can we improve our conversations?  Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey about Equality Now’s c…
See More from Equality Now - Bárbara Jiménez-Santiago
  Equality Now - Yasmeen Hassan · [email protected]
October 2, 2019 at 5:00 AM

“Honor” is not a defense for murder

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Last week in Pakistan, a court convicted Qandeel Baloch's brother of her murder and sentenced him to life in prison. He had confessed to killing her three years ago, saying “of course” he had murdered her. He said her acts of posting “controversial” statem…
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  Equality Now · [email protected]
September 30, 2019 at 3:32 PM

Make Equality Reality Gala to honor Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  Equality Now - Bárbara Jiménez-Santiago · [email protected]
September 28, 2019 at 1:58 PM

It's not complicated. Girls should not be forced to be mothers.

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Today is International Safe Abortion Day, where activists across the world stand together to demand access to safe abortion for all women and girls. Protecting girls from forced pregnancy in Argentina “We’re talking about girls who are 10, 11, 12 years old…
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  Equality Now - Emma Thompson · [email protected]
September 26, 2019 at 10:57 AM

"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."

Equality Now Hi JOhn, At the beginning of September we were honored to launched a partnership with Margaret Atoowd, Fane Productions, and VINTAGE around the highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood’s newest novel, The Testaments. In the past few weeks we have seen …
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  Equality Now · [email protected]
September 24, 2019 at 9:27 AM

They labelled my sister a traitor. They tortured her.

Equality Now   Dear JOhn It’s been almost 500 days since Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested alongside other women in Saudi Arabia. Their ‘crime’? Campaigning for women’s rights in the Kingdom. Loujain's sister is calling on us all to take action Yesterday Lina, Loujain's sister, to…
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  Equality Now - Emma Thompson · [email protected]
September 12, 2019 at 6:05 PM

Good Things Comes To She Who Waits...

Equality Now Hi JOhn, Simply put, this movement wouldn’t be the same without you. Everyday, thanks to your support, Equality Now is working to make equality a reality for women and girls around the world. I, and everyone here at Equality Now are so grateful to you for your commit…
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  Bryna Subherwal - Equality Now · [email protected]
September 8, 2019 at 12:00 PM

Equality Now Recommends - Special Literary Edition! 📚📚📚

Equality Now Dear JOhn, It’s time for your latest round up of recommendations from our staff and supporters that act as a megaphone to women's rights. This month we are doing something a bit different in honor of International Literacy Day and our partnership with Margaret Atwood’…
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  Equality Now - Emma Thompson · [email protected]
September 5, 2019 at 4:00 PM

Calling all Margaret Atwood fans, Equality Now has an exciting giveaway for you...

Equality Now Hi JOhn, We hope you are as excited as we are for the release of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, the highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale! Thanks to VINTAGE, we have a signed, first edition copy of The Testaments to give away to one lucky reader. As a th…
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  Equality Now - Naitore Nyamu Mathenge · [email protected]
September 4, 2019 at 7:30 PM

Girls in Tanzania are being denied their right to education

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Education changes lives. That’s why access to education is universally recognized as a basic human right. When government policies arbitrarily deny girls these rights, we need supporters like you to stand with us to make a change. 55,000 girls in Tanzania …
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  Equality Now - Emma Thompson · [email protected]
September 2, 2019 at 5:10 PM

Equality Now, Margaret Atwood, and the upcoming release of The Testaments

Equality Now Dear JOhn, "Events of the past few years have shown us how we can never take progress for granted. The Testaments could not be more timely for those of us working on gender equality – we need to remain vigilant, persistent and make ourselves heard."  Yasmeen Hassan, Eq…
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  Equality Now - Evelyn Chen · [email protected]
August 26, 2019 at 8:07 PM

Time is running out on Women’s Equality Day

Equality Now Dear JOhn,  Today is Women’s Equality Day, a day to commemorate the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Still almost 100 years later, women are still not equal in the U.S. Constitution. We need your support to ensure that all women and girls are treated equally to me…
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  Equality Now - Evelyn Chen · [email protected]
August 23, 2019 at 7:25 PM

A constitutional crisis

Equality Now Dear JOhn,  Women’s rights are under attack in the United States--from reproductive rights to child marriage still being legal in 48 states. It is a constitutional crisis, and the best solution is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA would guarantee the rights o…
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  Equality Now - Shelby Quast · [email protected]
August 21, 2019 at 9:46 PM

Most people don’t know this....

Equality Now Dear JOhn,  I recently attended the launch of the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative led by USAID and the White House. Together, U.S. departments, bi-partisan members of congress and the private sector, pledged increased aid to protect and promote t…
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  Emma Thompson - Equality Now · [email protected]
August 20, 2019 at 8:00 AM

“Where did you get that and where can I get one?!”

Equality Now Hi JOhn, “Where did you get that and where can I get one?!” I hear this A LOT when I’m wearing one of Equality Now’s “Misogyny Bores Me” t-shirts or totebags. It’s no wonder really. Misogyny is exceptionally boring after all. So we put our heads together and decided…
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  Bryna Subherwal - Equality Now · [email protected]
August 7, 2019 at 7:10 PM

Equality Now recommends 🎬📚🎧

Equality Now Dear JOhn, Whoop! It’s time for your latest round up of recommendations from our staff and supporters for books, movies, TV shows, podcasts and more that act as a megaphone to women's rights. Enjoy - and if you have any top tips then send them our way. Books New Daug…
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  Tsitsi Matekaire - Equality Now · [email protected]
July 30, 2019 at 11:02 AM

What is sex trafficking? And how can we end it?

Equality Now   Dear JOhn, Tuesday July 30th is World Day against Trafficking in Persons. It’s a chance to reinforce the urgent need to create and implement laws that seek to end sex trafficking – the illegal trafficking of humans for sexual exploitation – around the world.  Traff…
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  Equality Now - Bryna Subherwal · [email protected]
July 26, 2019 at 6:03 PM

Child "Marriage" Laws at Risk; March for Survivors and Margaret Atwood. Your monthly round up from Equality Now

Equality Now   Dear JOhn, Even though July means “summer vacation” for many in the northern hemisphere, we’ve been busier than ever. With all that has been happening, here is a reminder of the work your support has led to in the past month. Women’s and girls’ rights must be centr…
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  Equality Now · [email protected]
July 25, 2019 at 5:17 AM

Thank you for subscribing

Hello JOhn,?Thank you for subscribing to Equality Now. We can only make equality a reality with the support of people like you.By signing up for communications you consent to us further contacting you about our actions and campaigns and how you can get involved, including whether you can help wi…
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  Jean Paul Murunga - Equality Now · [email protected]
July 19, 2019 at 1:42 PM

Landmark ruling against child "marriage" at risk

Equality Now   Dear John, Child “marriage” is a human rights violation that harms girls and women, along with their families and communities. Despite global commitments to protect girls, we once again find ourselves defending hard won victories.   Next week our partners in Tanzani…
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  Antonia Kirkland - Equality Now · [email protected]
July 16, 2019 at 5:26 PM

The Global Goals: What do they mean for women and girls?

Equality Now   Dear John, Have you heard of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Ever wondered what they actually mean for women and girls?  Four years ago, 193 nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a set of 17 goals aimed at ensuring that nations commit…
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  Flavia Mwangovya - Equality Now · [email protected]
July 10, 2019 at 1:09 PM

URGENT: Liberia is backtracking on outlawing FGM

Equality Now   Dear John, Last month, the Legislative Arm of Government in Liberia backtracked on efforts to criminalise Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the country. They deleted sections from the proposed Domestic Violence Bill (2014) that had sought to outlaw the practice. T…
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  Equality Now · [email protected]
July 9, 2019 at 2:19 AM

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Hello John,?Thank you for subscribing to Equality Now. We can only make equality a reality with the support of people like you.By signing up for communications you consent to us further contacting you about our actions and campaigns and how you can get involved, including whether you can help wi…
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  Equality Now · [email protected]
June 28, 2019 at 7:34 PM

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