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We use the law to change the world. Join us.

Social change often begins with legal change and so we use the power of the law to create enduring equality for women and girls everywhere.

We use the law to change the world. Join us.

Social change often begins with legal change and so we use the power of the law to create enduring equality for women and girls everywhere.

What We Do

At Equality Now, we believe in creating a just world for women and girls. Since 1992, our international network of lawyers, activists and supporters have tackled the most difficult issues, challenged ingrained cultural assumptions and called out inequality wherever we see it.

133 partners worked in tandem with across 36 countries in 2021
12 legal cases supported with our expertise in 2021
41 expert submissions made to the UN and regional bodies advocating for law and policy reform in 2021

The Issues and Regions

Achieve Legal Equality

A lack of legal equality promotes violence and discrimination, yet almost every country in the world has laws that treat people differently on the basis of sex and/or gender.

End Sexual Violence

Sexual violence is a human rights violation that predominantly affects women and girls as a consequence of systemic and structural inequality.

End Sexual Exploitation

Sexual exploitation, a form of sexual abuse, is when someone abuses or attempts to abuse another person’s vulnerability or their own position of power or trust for sexual purposes.

End Harmful Practices

The term 'harmful practices' covers forms of violence or ritual discrimination, primarily committed against girls and women, that have become culturally normalized.
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None of us can afford to sit back and wait for equality to arrive – we need to act now.

With the power of your support, we can challenge injustice; we can stand against sexual violence; we can protect and advance hard-won rights, and we can amplify the voices of survivors – so every girl can enjoy the safety, choice, and respect she deserves.

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None of us can afford to sit back and wait for equality to arrive – we need to act now.

With the power of your support, we can challenge injustice; we can stand against sexual violence; we can protect and advance hard-won rights, and we can amplify the voices of survivors – so every girl can enjoy the safety, choice, and respect she deserves.

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Our Resource Center

Explore in-depth resources on women’s rights issues, including sexual violence, sexual exploitation, harmful practices, and legal discrimination from our expert network of lawyers and activists.

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Ukraine-Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women- 83rd Session 2022

We present the following submission in advance of the 83rd Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (‘the Committee’), taking place between 10 and …

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Palestine – Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – 85th Session 2022

Equality Now and YWCA Palestine present the following submission in advance of the 85th Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination …

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Singapore – Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – 85th Session 2022

The issues and practices detailed in this submission highlight the State’s failure to fulfill its duty to protect women and girls from FGM/C (article 2(c) …

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Latest News and Insights

World Teachers Day: Will Tanzania heed the call to let girls learn?

As the world marks World Teachers’ Day, we cannot help but reflect on the staggering number of 120,000 girls annually in Tanzania who are permanently and arbitrarily denied the wisdom, guidance, and counsel of …

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Women, Life, Freedom: A Statement of Solidarity with Women in Iran

This statement is also available in Farsi and Arabic. We stand in solidarity with those in Iran who are demanding accountability from their government on this incident. We support the United Nations demand for a …

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Our Stand on the Non-Authentication of Nepal’s Gender-Progressive Citizenship Amendment Bill by the President

The Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD), Nepal, and Equality Now express disappointment over the refusal by Nepal’s President, Bidya Devi …

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Equality Now and its partners welcome the call by UN Special Rapporteurs to the Government of Sierra Leone to take action to end female genital mutilation

The UN Special Rapporteurs Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, …

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