Speakers

Tsitsi Matekaire is Director, Regions. In this role with Equality Now, Tsitsi provides leadership to a global team campaigning to end sex trafficking and sexual exploitation across the world. With over sixteen years of experience, Tsitsi is a recognised legal expert on women’s rights, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, access to justice, women’s political participation, violence against women and girls. She is co-author, along with Samantha Ferrell-Schweppenstedde and Equality Now’s Jacqui Hunt, of “How Lifelong Discrimination and Legal Inequality Facilitate Sex Trafficking in Women and Girls,” featured in the Palgrave International Handbook on Human Trafficking (2019). Her writing and commentary have also featured in The London Economic, Eco Business, and Inter Press Service, among others.