Location: NYCLA Home of Law - 14 Vesey Street
Time: 6:00pm
Honorees: Jessica Neuwirth, president and founder of Equality Now, and Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of Equality Now
Jessica Neuwirth has devoted her life to the advancement and protection of women's rights worldwide - from taking on the U.S. sex tourism trade and trafficking in humans on a global basis to serving as an expert consultant to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on issues of sexual violence. Ms. Neuwirth holds a JD from Harvard Law School and BA from Yale University. In January 2009, she began a one-year leave as president of Equality Now and serves as director of the New York office of the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights. Her professional experience includes positions at Amnesty International, the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and the United Nations.
Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of Equality Now, works with national human rights organizations and individual activists, documenting violence and discrimination against women and mobilizing international action to stop human rights abuses. Ms. Bien-Aimé holds a JD from the NYU School of Law and a Licence in Political Science from the University of Geneva/Graduate School of International Studies, Switzerland. She joined Equality Now as its general counsel and became its executive director in 2001. She previously practiced international corporate law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
Equality Now: Founded in 1992, Equality Now is an international human rights organization with offices in New York, London and Nairobi, that works to protect and promote the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women across the globe.
Sponsor: NYCLA's Women's Rights Committee
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