A Georgetown Law graduate, Tzili Mor currently serves as the New York Director of Equality Now, a pioneering international human rights organization working to promote and protect the rights of women and girls globally. She joined Equality Now after having served as a Gender Justice Adviser in Afghanistan with the International Development Law Organization where she worked with the country’s first ever special prosecution Unit on Violence Against Women and to promote women’s access to justice. Tzili previously worked with Amnesty International focusing on the risks faced by women human rights defenders working in closed societies or on controversial issues.  Working as a regional human rights specialist with the American Bar Association based in Central Asia, she worked with judges, lawyers and law students on domestic incorporation of international human rights standards, and helped launch the first national judicial corruption courtroom monitoring network in Kyrgyzstan. At the Center for Reproductive Rights, Tzili oversaw fact finding missions documenting the impact of U.S. foreign policy on health, speech and association rights.  She also helped launch the Center’s work on HIV/AIDS around the first UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on that issue. 

Tzili served as a teaching fellow (2006-08) and Acting Director and Visiting Professor (2008-09) of the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law.  During her time with the Clinic, Tzili focused on women’s human rights in the areas of HIV/AIDS, housing, property, land, and inheritance, sex and race discriminatory customary laws, and gender-based violence.  She supervised student-led legal research and fact investigations on the impact of sex and race discriminatory laws in Africa, South America, and the United States.

Tzili has engaged UN bodies and global and local institutions on human rights, law, and gender initiatives around the world, working with myriad national and international initiatives and organizations, including Amnesty International where she currently serves as an expert member of the Women’s Human Rights Coordination Committee.