28th February 2025
43 min read
Where you’ll find Equality Now at CSW69
The Team
Director, Equal Justice Academy
Europe and Central Asia
Jacqui Hunt is an established human rights lawyer and has advocated for women’s rights for over twenty years. Previously, as Equality Now’s Global Lead on Ending Sexual Violence, Head of Equality Now’s London Office, and technical legal expert, Jacqui provided strategic guidance and leadership on holding governments to account, under international law, on their commitments to protect women and girls from sexual violence. Jacqui has been with Equality Now since 2003, when she launched the organization’s European headquarters in London.
At Equality Now, Jacqui has spearheaded several successful campaigns, including the creation of a United Nations Working Group to end discrimination against women in law and in practice. During her tenure with Equality Now, Jacqui was seconded to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) for two years to support the International Women’s Commission for a Just and Sustainable Middle East Peace.
She has contributed to many of Equality Now’s pioneering reports, including
Jacqui’s commentary on sexual violence, nationality rights, sexism and sexist stereotypes, sex discrimination, and gender equality has also featured in Global Citizen, Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Huffington Post, and The Guardian.
Jacqui began her career at Amnesty International; she went on to work in the Amnesty International United Nations Office in New York and in special projects at Amnesty International USA. Before joining Equality Now, she practiced law at Linklaters and for a development finance institution that invests in building businesses and creating jobs in the developing world.
Jacqui holds a BSc (Hons) in Linguistic and International Studies from the University of Surrey, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and completed her legal studies at the College of Law (now the University of Law), London.
Outside of the office, Jacqui enjoys exploring, hiking in the beautiful countryside, and making a bit of a mess of pottery and woodwork.
She is available for interviews in English.
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28th February 2025
43 min read
Where you’ll find Equality Now at CSW69
20th June 2024
10 min read
Leveraging Sexual Violence Laws for Survivor Justice: Rethinking Accountability
4th November 2022
6 min read
Two-Finger Test: The Indian Supreme Court’s Important Reiteration of Ban
3rd March 2022
8 min read
Sexual violence laws are failing adolescents
22nd September 2021
3 min read
Special Manual developed for Investigators, Prosecutors and Judges working on Cases of Sexual Violence in Georgia
24th November 2020
6 min read
India’s justice system is failing survivors of caste-based sexual violence
24th November 2020
16 min read
The rape of India’s Dalit women and girls
12th December 2019
5 min read
Equality Now awarded Finland’s International Gender Equality Prize for changing discriminatory laws
31st July 2018
5 min read
Sexual abuse and exploitation in the aid sector
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13 April 2026
8 pages
A regional call to action urging governments in South Asia to address legal and systemic barriers to justice for survivors of sexual violence.
1 April 2026
68 pages
Equality Now’s report analyses gaps in Pakistan’s rape laws and justice system response, with recommendations to strengthen enforcement and survivor access to justice.
13 February 2026
Equality Now’s GREVIO submission on Georgia highlights backsliding on gender equality, shrinking space for human rights NGOs and remaining gaps in sexual violence response: non-consent-based rape laws, insufficient services for survivors and retraumatising practices.