The wider movement
Equality Now, founding member and Secretariat of the Hurra Coalition, has a strategic focus on movement building. Women-led movements are key to achieving progress, particularly in the face of resistance – working as they do outside of the hierarchies and politics of the status quo, harnessing and benefiting from a diversity of ideas, expertise, and intent. The Hurra Coalition benefits from collaboration and shared learning between these related coalitions that Equality Now is also a driving force of:
The Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law
The Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law (GCEFL) was launched in March 2020 as a concerted and strategic global effort to draw attention to and call for the reform of discriminatory family laws, as part of fundamental women’s rights and human rights issues.
GCEFL is led by a Coordinating Committee of eight leading women’s rights, human rights and faith-based organisations – Equality Now – where the Secretariat of GCEFL is currently based, Act Church of Sweden, Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM), Musawah, Muslims for Progressive Values, Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) represented by the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), Women’s Learning Partnership, and UN Women.
https://equalfamilylaws.org/about-us/