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What will you do with the 5000 Dollars?
As a large and well established organization, Equality Now clearly deals with a lot of different issues. If Equality Now wins this grant, can you tell us with any specificity how the $5000 will be spent. Will it go towards operating expenses or channeled into a specific program, and if so, which one?
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Though we have multiple areas of focus, if we were to win this grant, we'd put it towards our Adolescent Girls' Legal Defense Fund. This Fund, which was established in 2008, includes cases that touch upon all of our program areas (FGM, Sexual Violence, Trafficking and Discrimination in Law). Donations to the fund help provide legal support, counseling and educational support to victims pursuing justice.
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To follow up on my AGLDF post from last week, here's the page where you can learn more about the cases that fall under this fund: http://equalitynow.org/agldf
It includes, for example, a case in Zambia in 2008 concerning the rampant issue of rape of schoolgirls by teachers in the country. In "R.M.'s" case, we worked with a pro bono lawyer who brought a civil case on her behalf of R.M. against the Ministry of Education, the school and the Attorney General. On June 30, 2008 the High Court in Lusaka passed a landmark decision awarding R.M. damages worth K45,000,000 ($14,000) for pain and suffering, mental torture, aggravated damages and medical expenses, which held up to an appeal in 2009.
A more current case we are working on concerns sex tourism, a form of commercial sexual exploitation which affects millions of children around the world. Equality Now is spearheading a civil case in the U.S. on behalf of a number of Brazilian girls who were sexually exploited by clients of a fishing tour company in Brazil run by a U.S. citizen. This U.S. citizen brought U.S. tourists on fishing trips to the Amazon. He and his employees would lure young girls from local indigenous communities, some as young as 12, onto his boats. We secured a law firm in Georgia to take the matter on a pro bono basis, and a civil suit has been filed in federal court in Atlanta (where the defendant is located). This is potentially a precedent-setting civil litigation against a sex tourism company. We believe that this may be the first civil action under the trafficking law on behalf of victims of sex tourism.
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