04 November 2009

Brown Bag: Equality Now Mobilizes to End Injustice to Women

Brown Bag: Equality Now Mobilizes to End Injustice to Women
Thursday, November 5, 12:30PM to 1:30PM
Pacific Room at Tides

Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure. Thoreau Center and the New Field Foundation will host four Equality Now activists who will highlight their recent successes and talk about Equality Now’s new exciting project. The presenters include Agnes Pareyio, a Maasai activist working to end FGM and early marriage in Kenya, Kadidia Sidibe, a women's rights champion in Mali, West Africa for over three decades, Fanta Camara, and a young Malian FGM survivor-turned-activist Taina Bien-Aimé, ex-oficio, Equality Now Board of Directors (USA).

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