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Jessica Neuwirth (born 10 December 1961) is an American lawyer and international women's rights activist. She is one of the founders of Equality Now, an international women's rights organizations established in 1992, and the founder and director of Frontline Women's Fund, a project hosted by the Sisterhood is Global Institute to support women's organizations around the world. [1]
Other pro-ERA organizations at the convention included the Order of Women Legislators, Women's Democratic Club, Equal Rights Coalition of Utah, League of Women Voters, Equal Rights Legal Fund, Utah Welfare Rights Organization, and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. [2]
Carol Jenkins alongside Carolyn Maloney, Heidi Schreck and Huma Abedin at ERA night after a performance of Suffs musical in April 2024. Jenkins was co-president and CEO of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women's Equality, [9] sister organizations dedicated to the passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) is an American non-profit gender justice/women's rights organization that was founded in 1974. ERA is a legal and advocacy organization for advancing rights and opportunities for women, girls, and people of marginalized gender identities through legal cases and policy advocacy.
Equality Now was founded in 1992 in New York by attorneys Jessica Neuwirth of the United States, Navanethem Pillay of South Africa and Feryal Gharahi. The founders believed that acts of violence against women were violations of the fundamental human rights guarantees as stated in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that the human rights movement to that point had neglected women ...
The author and legal scholar pays homage to those who've worked over the last century plus to secure women's rights. Kate Kelly’s “Ordinary Equality” Shows Us How Vital It Is That We Finally ...
ERAmerica was founded as a coalition of groups in 1976 and consisted of over 200 organizations. [2] The headquarters were based in Washington, D.C. [3] The purpose of the organization as to seek ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The group was ultimately unsuccessful after the ERA failed in 1982. [4]
The act was finally passed in Congress in 1920 after much commotion and action, giving women nationwide the right to vote. Fifty-one years later in 1971, August 26 was first recognized as National ...