# EQUALITY NOW

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1107613
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [04926476](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04926476)
- **Registered:** Jan. 13, 2005
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1107613


## Contact

- **Address:** c/o Azets Holdings Ltd, Burnham Yard, London End, BEACONSFIELD, Buckinghamshire
- **Postcode:** HP9 2JH
- **Phone:** 07445 699371
- **Email:** ukinfo@equalitynow.org
- **Website:** www.equalitynow.org



## Activities

**Objects:** TO PROMOTE THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS (AS DEFINED IN THIS CLAUSE) OF WOMEN AND IN PARTICULAR:1.  TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THE MAINTENANCE AND OBSERVANCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO WOMEN, AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;2.  TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY AS RELATES TO WOMEN, BY DISSEMINATING MATERIALS REGARDING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE VIOLATION OF SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS;3.  TO PROCURE, THROUGH INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY, THE ABOLITION OF DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN;4.  TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO NEEDY VICTIMS OF BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY WOMEN;&quot;DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS&quot; MEANS THOSE HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH:(1)  CONSTITUTE FREEDOM FROM GENOCIDE, SLAVERY OR THE SLAVE TRADE, UNLAWFUL FORCED LABOUR, EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING OR TORTURE; OR(2)  ARE ENSHRINED OR INCORPORATED INTO THE DOMESTIC LAW OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT IS SOUGHT TO PROMOTE THOSE RIGHTS; OR(3)  DEFINED IN ANY INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON HUMAN RIGHTS (INCLUDING THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS OF 1950, AND ANY SUCH DECLARATION RESOLUTION OR CONVENTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS OR ANY OF ITS ORGANS OR AGENCIES OR ANY TREATY OR INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BY ANY MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS THAT IS REGISTERED UNDER ARTICLE 102(1) OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, INCLUDING IN ALL CASES ANY SUPPORTING DOCUMENT AND ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT AND INCLUDING THOSE RULES AND LAWS WHICH FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY AND WHICH MAY BE DESCRIBED AS &quot;INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW&quot; WHICH CAN BE ENFORCED IN RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL).&quot;INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS&quot; MEANS ANY RIGHTS SECURED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW, WHICH DO NOT FALL WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS.

**Activities:** Equality Now works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls around the world. Working with national women&#x27;s rights organisations and individual activists, we document violence and discrimination against women and girls and add an international action overlay to support their efforts to advance equality rights and defend individual women who are suffering abuse.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
- **Who:** Children/young People, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- **Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WORLDWIDE.
- Throughout England And Wales





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Chadia El Meouchi |  | April 2, 2022 |
| Julia Mary Middleton |  | March 15, 2024 |
| Melissa Berman |  | Jan. 1, 2025 |
| Michelle Ann Harrison |  | Feb. 1, 2026 |
| Shalin Punn |  | Sept. 1, 2025 |
| Sharmila Sinha |  | Jan. 10, 2023 |
| Yasmin Waljee |  | April 28, 2023 |




