Author: Faiza Jama Mohamed

Faiza Jama Mohamed is the Africa region director at Equality Now and led the effort to open the organization's Nairobi Office in 2000. She has more than 20 years of experience advocating for the legal rights of women and girls at the national, regional and international levels. Previous to joining Equality Now, Faiza was an active member of the women's movement in Somalia.
COVID-19 Threatens Decades of Progress on Gender Equality. This World Children’s Day, We Must Fight Back.

COVID-19 Threatens Decades of Progress on Gender Equality. This World Children’s Day, We Must Fight Back.

COVID-19 has left no one untouched, but it has had an especially pernicious impact on girls—most particularly those from already marginalized communities.

From a dramatic rise in sex trafficking in Malawi, to spiraling rates of sexual violence in India, from subversive restrictions on access to abortion in the U.S. to an increase in teen pregnancy and female genital mutilation in Kenya, it is clear that COVID-19 is an existential threat to gender equality.