Jessica Neuwirth

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international women’s rights lawyer and activist

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Jessica Neuwirth  is an international women’s rights lawyer and activist.  She is one of  the founders of Equality Now, an international women’s rights  organization established in 1992, and the founder and Director of Donor Direct Action,  an offshoot project now hosted by the Sisterhood is Global Institute to  support women’s rights organizations around the world.  She is also a  founder of the new ERA Coalition,  mobilizing a renewed effort to get the Equal Rights Amendment into the  United States Constitution. To aid this effort, she has also written a  book Equal Means Equal, Why the Time for the ERA is Now.  In September 2018 she was appointed by Hunter College as Distinguished Lecturer and Rita E. Hauser Director of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.

PassBlue: An American Feminist, Honored by France, Carries On a Tireless Global Fight for Women’s Ri

 Jessica  holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in  History from Yale  University. She has worked for the human rights  organization Amnesty  International, for the Wall Street law firm of  Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen  & Hamilton, and for the United Nations  Office of Legal Affairs, as  well as the UN Office of the High  Commissioner for Human Rights. She  served as a special consultant on  sexual violence to the International  Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for  its landmark Akayesu judgment holding  that rape is a form of genocide,  and again worked for the Rwanda  Tribunal on the Media judgment holding  print and radio media accountable  for their role in the Rwandan  genocide. More recently she directed the  legal team that drafted the  judgment of the Special Court for Sierra  Leone convicting former  Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes  and crimes against  humanity. As a guest lecturer, Jessica has taught  international women’s  rights at Harvard Law School. 

“An American Feminist, Honored by France, Carries On a Tireless Global Fight for Women’s Rights”, Pa

Jessica is the recipient of the following honors and awards:  

  • Susan B. Anthony Award, National Organization for Women, New York City Chapter, 1997  
  • Special Citation, Advice Desk for Abused Women, Durban, South Africa, 2000  
  • Ms. Women of the Year, 2003  
  • Visionary Ending Violence Award, Harvard Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, 2005  
  • Edith I. Spivack Award, New York County Lawyers’ Association, 2009
  • New York Moves Power Women of the Year, 2015  
  • Civic Spirit Award, Women's City Club, 2016  
  • Women's eNews - 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, 2017
  • Chevalier, French Legion of Honor, 2021

  

“An American Feminist, Honored by France, Carries On a Tireless Global Fight for Women’s Rights”, PassBlue, October 2021 

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