Recent Campaigns
- Ongoing campaign against sex tourism companies Big Apple Oriental Tours and G.F. Tours, and calling on the US Attorney General to prosecute such companies under the Mann Act and Travel Act.
- Calling for Japan to ban video games that simulate rape – eroge, with specific focus on the game RapeLay – under the belief that it promotes and normalizes sexual assault. As a result, RapeLay was removed from Illusion Software's website and several Japanese H game producers and other eroge-affiliated websites have decided to block all non-Japanese IP addresses. Equality Now reports it has "received an unprecedented amount of hate mail, including death and bomb threats" over this campaign. However, it was later reported by Sankaku Complex that Equality Now's claims were not honest. This campaign has found criticism. Various concerns have been stated and legal foundations of this campaign have been questioned in an online petition, and a web site has been set up which argues that campaigns such as Equality Now's against fictitious depictions are in violation of Article 18 and Article 19.
- Calling on the king of Saudi Arabia and Saudi Minister of Justice to end enforced marriages and divorces.
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