Achieving legal equality
Discover how discrimination in the law affects women and girls, and society at large, and how Equality Now is driving legal reform globally.
Everything we do at Equality Now falls into one of four broad themes: achieving legal equality, ending sexual violence, ending sexual exploitation, and ending harmful practices.
Discover how discrimination in the law affects women and girls, and society at large, and how Equality Now is driving legal reform globally.
Discover how Equality Now uses legal reform, survivor-centred advocacy, and international collaboration to end sexual violence worldwide.
Learn how we work to end sexual exploitation and abuse across physical and digital spaces in all its forms.
Discover how Equality Now works to end harmful practices like child marriage, female genital mutilation, and bride kidnapping through legal reform and advocacy.
See how we’re responding to a fast-changing, often hostile, world to ensure we continue to secure rights and transform futures.
Learn how Equality Now and civil society use international law to drive global gender equality and legal reform for women and girls.
Every year, our work leads to legal, systemic, and cultural progress that translates into real and positive change for millions of women and girls around the world. In 2024, we improved justice for over 52 million women & girls.
Operating worldwide, alongside partners at national, regional and global levels, our proven and pioneering approach draws on our exemplary technical skills and understanding – as well as a diverse and invaluable range of political, social and cultural perspectives – to impact on every driver of legal and systemic change.
We inform and advise; working with governments, policy-makers, and civil society to craft better laws and guide more effective implementation in every part of the world.
We convene and connect; building coalitions and creating movements to collectively tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues, with partners at both grassroots and global levels.
We challenge and champion; holding power to account through targeted advocacy and campaigns, while platforming and amplifying the most marginalized voices.
Find out more about our theory of change