Yasmeen Hassan is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now, an international human rights organization focused on women and girls’ rights. She is a native of Pakistan and has been involved in women’s rights since very early in her career, authoring the first study of domestic violence in Pakistan, which ultimately became the country’s submission to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Ms. Hassan served as editor of Equality Now’s first report on sex discriminatory laws in 1999 and has appeared in numerous media outlets to address the global situation of women, including Al Jazeera, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Prior to joining Equality Now, she was with the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women where she worked on the implementation of CEDAW and the Secretary-General’s study on violence against women. She also practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell and clerked on the D.C. Court of Appeals. Ms. Hassan holds a J. D. from Harvard Law School, where, among other subjects, she studied Islamic law and women’s rights.
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Moving Beyond Words: The Case for a Global Implementation Plan to End Violence Against Women and Girls
Huffington Post Impact [March 8, 2013] -
Fighting the Talibanization of Pakistan
The Washington Post [January 26, 2009] -
Make Equality Reality
Equality Now [November 7, 2014] -
UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Women
[2005] -
Violence Against Women: Stove Burning, Acid Throwing, Honor Killings
Women's International Human Rights Law [2000] -
The Haven Becomes Hell: A Study of Domestic Violence in Pakistan
Women Living Under Muslim Laws and Shirkat Gah [1995] -
Advancing Women: Leadership in Our Lives' Panel
Women's Refugee Commission/Thomson Reuters [May 20, 2014] -
Culture exceptions "threatens women's rights"
Al Jazeera [March 8, 2013] -
The Taliban's influence in Pakistan
Al Jazeera [April 28, 2009]