United Nations

Equality Now uses international law and United Nations mechanisms to advance the elimination of violence and discrimination against women. As a non-governmental organization with UN consultative status, Equality Now interacts in various ways with diverse UN bodies including the UN Human Rights Committee, CEDAW (Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Equality Now has also convened two “Arria Formula” meetings to bring peace activists from Afghanistan and the Middle East directly to the UN Security Council.

Equality Now campaigns that have involved the United Nations include the following:

Calling for the consideration of women candidates in the election of the next United Nations Secretary-General.

Participating in the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 and in the Beijing +5 Special Session of the UN General Assembly, which took place in New York in 2000 to review the implementation of the Platform for Action adopted at the Beijing Conference. Equality Now produced a report highlighting and protesting discriminatory laws still in force around the world, which was updated in 2004 in preparation for the Beijing +10 review process scheduled for 2005.

Calling for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women and Peace and Security in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Working with activists at the national level to prepare submissions for the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the status of women’s rights in various countries being reviewed by the Committee for their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Working with organizations in Mexico to submit a request to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to take action on the situation in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico, where hundreds of women have been murdered over the past ten years.

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