Who We Are
The Team
Every Woman is a coalition of 3,000+ women’s rights activists in 147 countries advancing a global treaty in the form of an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) dedicated to ending violence against women and girls.
Nicolette Gamara
Coalition Coordinator
Every Woman Staff Team
Lisa Shannon
Cofounder & CEO
Patricia Elias
Chief of Global Diplomatic Campaign
Global Working Group
Gladys Mbuyah Luku, Country Vice President, Federation of Women Lawyers Cameroon, Cameroon Marie Nyombo Zaina, Director, National Network for the Defense of Women’s Rights, DRC Dr. Morissanda Kouyaté, Cofounder, The Inter-African Committee On Traditional Practices, Ethiopia Charity Binka, Executive Director, Women Media and Change, Ghana Ruth Anyango Aura, Chairperson, Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya, Kenya Gaby Razafindrakoto, Coordinator, Federation for the Promotion of Women and Children, Madagascar Obioma Nwaorgu, President, Global Health Awareness Research Foundation, Nigeria
Manizha Naderi, Executive Director, Women for Afghan Women, Afghanistan Azra Jafari, former Mayor, Nili, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Saira Rahman Khan, Associate Professor, School of Law, BRAC University,Charity Binka, Executive Director, Women Media and Change, Ghana Ruth Anyango Aura, Chairperson, Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya, Kenya Gaby Razafindrakoto, Coordinator, Federation for the Promotion of Women and Children, Madagascar Obioma Nwaorgu, President, Global Health Awareness Research Foundation, Nigeria
Albena Koycheva, Coordinator, Womens’ Human Rights Training Institute, Bulgaria Sanja Sarnavka, President, Be Active Be Emancipate, Croatia Martha Jean Baker, former Vice President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, England Margaret Owen, Founder/Director, Widows for Peace through Democracy, England Carol Mann, President FemAid and Women in War, France Orit Sulitzeanu, Executive Director, Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, Israel Lois Herman, Founder/Coordinator, The Women’s UN Report Network, Italy Medea Khmelidze, Program Manager, Georgian Harm Reduction Network, Lithuania
Viola van Bogaert, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Aruba, Aruba Silvia Vega, Gender Expert, Instituto de Formación Femenina Integral, Bolivia Maria De Lourdes Alcantara, Expert, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, Brazil Rodrigo Jimenez, Director, Fundación Justicio y Género, Costa Rica Yasmín Silvia Portales Machado, Activist, Writer, Cuba,
Ghada Hammam, Country Program Manager, Diakonia, Egypt Hassan Khani, Founder, International Peace Foundation for Culture Promotion of Human Rights Observance, Iran Asmaa Al Ameen, Iraq Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Chair, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Afaf Jabiri, Founder, Jordanian Women’s Union Aid Centre and Shelter, Jordan Nabila Hamza, President, Foundation for the Future, Jordan Jinan Usta, President, Lebanese Society of Family Medicine, Lebanon Dr. Alaa Murabit, Ashoka Fellow, Founder, Voice of Libyan Women, Libya Stephanie Willman Bordat, Practitioner, Morocco Saida Kouzzi, Founding Partner, Mobilizing for Rights Associates, Morocco Fadoua Bakhadda, Executive Director, The Association Marocaine de Planification Familiale, Morocco,
Vidya Sri, Honorary Chair of the Global Working Group, United States Yolanda Muñoz Gonzalez, Gender and Disabilities Rights Expert, Canada Jo-Anne Dusel, Coordinator, Provincial Association of Transition Houses & Services of Saskatchewan, Canada Laurie Tannous, Attorney and Expert in Human Trafficking, Canada Jeanne Sarson, Founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture, Canada Lise Martin, Director, Canadian Network of Women’s Shelters, Canada Megan Walker, Executive Director, London Abused Women’s Centre, Canada Peg Hacskaylo, Executive Director, District Alliance for Safe Housing, USA Denise Kindschi Gosselin, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, Western New England University, USA Cris Sullivan, Director, Research Consortium on GBV, Michigan State University, USA Lindsay Robertson, Founding Director, International Human Rights Clinic, University of Oklahoma, USA Judy Lear, Former National Chair, Gray Panthers, USA David L. Richards, Cofounder, CIRI Human Rights Data Project, USA Denise Scotto, Founding Chair, New York State Bar Association International Section’s Women’s Rights Committee, USA Ratchneewan Ross,
Dorinda Cox, Director, Inspire Change, Australia Margie Charlesworth, Board Member, Australian Women Against Violence Alliances, Australia Annie Cossins, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia Amy Barrow, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Australia Natalie Wade, Chairperson, Australian Lawyer’s for Human Rights’ Disability Rights Subcommittee, Australia Ruby Awa, Founding Member, Women’s Rights Action Movement, Fiji Vandhna Narayan, Director, Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre, Fiji Tevita Seruilumi, VAW Expert, Attorney, Fiji Hazel Hape, Indigenous Expert, New Zealand Caroline Herewini, Executive Director, Te Whare Tiaki Wahine Refuge, New Zealand Petra Butler, Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jackie Blue, Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner, New Zealand
Expert Committee Members for content Treaty
Core Platform Committee
Sara Andrews, USA; Ruth Anyango Aura, Kenya; Stephanie Willman Bordat, Morocco; Susan Burke, USA; Petra Butler, New Zealand; Mari Davtyan, Russia; Angela Hefti, Switzerland; Jackie Jones, UK; Saira Rahman Khan, Bangladesh; Morissanda Kouyaté, Ethiopia; Albena Koycheva, Bulgaria; Ronagh McQuigg, Northern Ireland; Stephanie Ortoleva, USA; Francisco Rivera, USA/Latin America and the Caribbean; Anne Scully-Hill, Denmark; Tevita Seruilumi, Fiji.
Volunteer Research & Admin Team
Abir Ahmed, India; Lindsay Apperson, USA; Carla Benton, USA; Karolina Deuth, USA; Taylor Dutch, USA; Veronique Fourment, USA; Arianna Frontera, Italy; Maria Gargano, USA; Sasha Grossman, USA; Meredith Gusky, USA; Yogitra Jothi, UK; Anna Nikoltchev, France; Maria Pachon, USA; Arianna Stefencavage, USA; Caitlin Stone, Australia; Maddalena Zarcone, USA; Virginia Slutu, USA/France; Kennedy Avery, USA; Katerina Hazimihalis, USA; Tatyana Roberts, USA; Iris Kuqi, Albania; Tatyana Roberts, USA; Amy Brittan, USA; Margarita Belozerova, USA/Russia.