UUSC ParTner
Equality Bahamas
Equality Bahamas is a grassroots, volunteer-led organization founded in 2014 to promote climate justice and women’s rights as human rights through public education, community engagement, and policy advocacy.
Partner Details
- Region: Caribbean
- UUSC issue area: Climate Justice
- 2020
About
Equality Bahamas was founded in 2014 as a rapid response to a Member of Parliament making a non-joke about domestic violence in the House. Since then, the organization has worked at the intersection of gender-based violence, international mechanisms, and climate justice for women displaced by disasters and people in migration in The Bahamas and across the Caribbean.
It played a key role in launching a national education campaign ahead of the 2016 gender equality referendum, aiming to address inequality in the conferral of citizenship and combat sex-based discrimination. Equality Bahamas has since expanded its work to confront the many intersecting issues impacting women, LGBTQ+ people, and migrant communities in The Bahamas.
UUSC has partnered with Equality Bahamas since 2020, providing support through message amplification, advocacy, and grant funding. Following Hurricane Dorian in 2019, the organization opened a donation center that quickly grew into a distribution hub serving more than 200 displaced families per week. Today, its work continues to advance climate and gender justice, with a focus on feminist policymaking in disaster response and recovery.
Partner Support & Grantmaking
UUSC prioritizes building relationships with grassroots groups focused on justice and alternatives to oppressive systems.
