Equality Now was founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national women’s rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women, and adds an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse. Through its Women’s Action Network, Equality Now distributes information about these human rights violations to concerned groups and individuals around the world, along with recommended actions for protesting them. Issues of urgent concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence, reproductive rights, trafficking of women, female genital mutilation, and the denial of equal access to economic opportunity and political participation.
