From Equality Now… Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing +15 Review Process Equality Now has just issued Women’s Action 16.10, Update February 2010 – Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing +15 Review Process, which includes a representative sampling of explicitly discriminatory laws with respect to personal status (suffrage, citizenship, [...]

Take Action to End Early Marriage in Yemen Equality Now has just issued Women’s Action 34.1 — Yemen: End early marriages through enactment of a law enforcing a minimum age of marriage. Research shows that up to 50% of girls in Yemen are married before they are 18.   Despite the negative physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual [...]

We periodically receive news and information about our various supported charities, and take great pride in sharing them with you.  Here’s one such update from Equality Now. “…EqualityNow.org is a one-stop site for the group determined to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.” New York Times Magazine, August 23, 2009 [...]

Iran: Equality Now welcomes the news of Shadi Sadr’s release from prison on 28 July 2009 following her illegal arrest. Shadi Sadr, an Iranian human rights activist and lawyer, was violently beaten and abducted by plain-clothes officials while on her way to Friday prayers in Tehran on 17 July 2009. Shadi’s friends and family were [...]

Take Action against rape simulator games and the normalization of sexual violence in Japan 5/6/2009 Equality Now has just issued “Women’s Action 33.1 Japan: Rape simulator games and the normalization of sexual violence“. The Action focuses on the rape simulator game RapeLay, which is produced and sold in Japan, including through Amazon Japan. The aim [...]