Mobilizing Youth-Led Advocacy
The Challenge:
How to enable youth and community to benefit directly from the 160 Girls victory?
A successful constitutional claim against state discrimination may become a useful legal precedent, but is not easily accessible to those it aims to help.
Although 94% of victims confide in a parent or guardian, only 0.02% of cases are reported to police.
70
%
of girls fear reporting brings shame to their families.
The Solution: 160 Girls Virtual Justice Clubs
The Equality Effect surveyed children and youth on how to implement the 160 Girls victory directly in their communities. They said their parents’ generation posed the biggest challenge to making girls’ rights real. They advised e² to create 160 Girls Justice Clubs.
160 Girls Virtual Justice Clubs (VJCs) enable youth to become justice advocates through videos, poetry, original art, music, dance and interactive activities. VJC leaders in turn educate their peers and community members about the 160 Girls law, and the need to ensure access to justice for rape survivors. They contribute to the weekly editions of the 160 Girls Justice Journal, which they distribute in local communities. The VJCs provide a critical opportunity for youth to partner with police to support their peers and demand justice.
