1998-1999 Annual Report

Equality Now in action:

The Women’s Action Network is the core of Equality Now’s work. As of year-end 1999, the Network consists of more than four thousand groups and individuals in more than one hundred countries around the world who take action in response to appeals on behalf of individual women, participate in campaigns on broader women’s issues, and channel information and strategy on their own concerns back through the Network. All Women’s Actions are issued in English, Spanish, French and Arabic to promote equal access to information and to facilitate grassroots participation. Equality Now has undertaken the following sixteen Women’s Actions to date:

  • Reproductive Rights in Poland
  • Gender-Based Political Asylum in Canada: The Case of Nada
  • Rape and Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Trafficking of Women to Japan: The Death of Maricris Sioson
  • UNICEF Funding for Efforts to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
  • Rape in South Africa: The Durban Train Station
  • Domestic Violence and Judicial Bias in the United States
  • The Medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt
  • Gender-Based Political Asylum in the United States: The Case of Fauziya Kassindja
  • Abortion Imprisonment in Nepal: The Case of Lok Maya
    Adhikari
  • Consideration of Women in the Election of the United Nations
    Secretary-General
  • Sex Tourism from the United States: Big Apple Oriental Tours
  • Censorship of the Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation in
    The Gambia.
  • Slavery in Ghana: The Trokosi Tradition
  • Trinidad and Tobago: The Imminent Execution of a Battered Woman and Her
    Defenders
  • Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+5 Review
    Process

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