EQUALITY
HUB

OUR
MISSION

The Equality Hub serves as a community that fosters larger-scale impact by spreading awareness and encouraging the development of new skills among youth. Its mission is to building bridges and breaking barriers, creating an all-inclusive space that treats and celebrates all individuals as equals. The Hub empowers young people to lead initiatives that educate others and inspire respect for humanity as a whole by encouraging open dialogue and taking action towards equity across all areas of diversity including race, gender, identity, and socioeconomics. issues/events/controversies at the global, regional, and local levels.

What we do

Teen changemakers promote awareness about femicides, child marriage, sexism, and inequalities all around the world.

Global Co Lab Network Implicit Bias Skills Training

We all have implicit biases even we don’t recognize, It is our duty to understand our biases and how to navigate those situations.

Racial Justice Art Challenge Video

An art challenge created to raise awareness and bring light to injustices through music, poetry and digital art.

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OverHERd Podcast

This platform promotes awareness around gender equity, as teen changemakers, through genuine discussions on social issues.

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Leadership

Precious Andin

Mentor

Vickie Crockett

Mentor

Caitlyn Power

Teen Ambassador

Samantha Tran

Teen Ambassador

Madeleine Gauldie

Secretary

Ana Valeria Buendia

Social Media Liaison

Gökçe Nur Güzel

Project Manager

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Globally, 750 million women and girls were married before the age of 18 and at least 200 million women and girls in 30 countries have undergone FGM.
The rates of girls between 15-19 who are subjected to FGM (female genital mutilation) in the 30 countries where the practice is concentrated have dropped from 1 in 2 girls in 2000 to 1 in 3 girls by 2017.
In 18 countries, husbands can legally prevent their wives from working; in 39 countries, daughters and sons do not have equal inheritance rights; and 49 countries lack laws protecting women from domestic violence.
One in five women and girls, including 19 per cent of women and girls aged 15 to 49, have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner with the last 12 months. Yet, 49 countries have no laws that specifically protect women from such violence.
In 2016, over 64.4% of products exported by the least developed countries to world markets faced zero tariffs, an increase of 20% since 2010.
Evidence from developing countries shows that children in the poorest 20 percent of the population are still up to three times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than children in the richest quintiles.
Social protection has been significantly extended globally, yet persons with disabilities are up to five times more likely than average to incur catastrophic health expenditures.
Despite overall declines in maternal mortality in most developing countries, women in rural areas are still up to three times more likely to die while giving birth than women living in urban centers.
Up to 30 percent of income inequality is due to inequality within households, including between women and men. Women are also more likely than men to live below 50 percent of the median income.

5.1 By 2030, end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.

5.2 By 2030, eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

5.3 By 2030, eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.

5.4 By 2030, recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.

5.5 By 2030, ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

5.6 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.

5.A Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.

5.B Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women.

5.C Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.

10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average.

10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

10.3 By 2030, ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard.

10.4 By 2030, adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.

10.5 By 2030, improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations.

10.6 By 2030, ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions.

10.7. By 2030, facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

10.A Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements.

10.B Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes.

10.C By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent.

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