ABOUT EQUALITY NOW
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Founded in 1992, Equality Now is an international human rights
organization that works to protect and promote the rights of all
women and girls around the world. Our campaigns are centered
on four program areas: Legal Equality, End Sexual Violence,
End Harmful Practices, and End Sexual Exploitation, with a
crosscutting focus on the unique needs of adolescent girls.
Equality Now combines grassroots activism with international,
regional and national legal advocacy to achieve legal and
systemic change to benefit all women and girls, and works to
ensure that governments enact and enforce laws and policies
that uphold their rights. Equality Now is a global organization
with partners and members all around the world.
Equality Now wishes to thank the tireless efforts of the following organizations and individuals, including in the assistance for
research and preparation of this report, especially:
info@equalitynow.org
www.equalitynow.org/state
facebook.com/equalitynoworg
instagram.com/equalitynoworg
@equalitynow
linkedin.com/company/equality-now
Catherine Harrington, Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
Alicia Wallace, Equality Bahamas
Arab Women Organization (Jordan)
LECORVAW (Lebanon)
Bridget Wooding, OBMICA (Dominican Republic)
Fernando Bissacot and Radha Govil, UNHCR
Liesl Muller, Centre for Child Law, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Dechen Lama and Sabin Shrestha, Forum for Women, Law and Development (Nepal)
Family Frontiers (Malaysia)
Beatrice Duncan, UN Women
We are extremely thankful to the women and girls who contributed their voices to the case studies in this report.
We acknowledge the contribution of Equality Now staff:
Antonia Kirkland, Divya Srinivasan, Katherine Payne, Bryna Subherwal, Emma Stoskopf-Ehrlich, Dima Dabbous, Paleki Ayang,
Bárbara Jiménez-Santiago, Ana Elena Obando, Esther Waweru, Enock Welemba, Sahar Al Bashir and Mary Kimemia in
researching, drafting and producing this report and Jacqui Hunt, Niki Kandirikirira and Faiza Mohamed for reviewing the report.
We would also like to thank:
Designers: Caroline Boyd and Aline Nasar
Translators: Prime Production Ltd and Thomas Forycki.
Photographers: Photographs from our partners via Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action, Forum for
Women Law and Development, Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, Family Frontiers, and UN Women/Ryan
Brown, as well as LeoPatrizi, TommL, Phynart Studio, JohnnyGreig, belterz, FatCamera, and NickyLloyd via iStock.
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