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.
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In 2022 we made 30 expert submissions to the UN and regional bodies advocating for law and policy reform
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In 2022 we worked in tandem with 147 partners worked across 34 countries.
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Almost 55% of the discriminatory laws we’ve highlighted since 1999 have been fully or partially reformed
EXPLORE OUR WORK
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 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 Sexual Violence
Sexual violence is a human rights violation that predominantly affects women and girls as a consequence of systemic and structural inequality.
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.
Latest News and Insights
UNHRC Adopts Our Recommendations to the US
November 13, 2023
In September 2023, Equality Now, with the ERA Coalition, Unchained at Last, the US End FGM/C Network, and the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi), presented a submission ahead of the 139th session of the United Nations Human Rights ...
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Regional Civil Society Organizations in Solidarity to End Child Marriage in Eastern and Southern Africa
November 7, 2023
August 23rd-24th, 2023, was a diverse gathering where Equality Now, in partnership with UNFPA, hosted over 50 representatives of civil society organizations, ...
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Equality Now Statement Supporting Women & Girls’ Human Rights in the Current Israel-Hamas Crisis
October 23, 2023
Equality Now acknowledges the immense pain and suffering experienced by all people throughout the current crisis. We do not condone violence in any form and send our ...
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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.
Join us for our 2023 Make Equality Reality Gala
Join us in New York on October 11th as we celebrate International Day of the Girl Child with an evening of inspiring performances of music, drama, and comedy with art and advocacy supporting equality for women & girls.
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.
Words and Deeds: Sex Discrimination in Personal Status Laws
02 May 2023
The 4th UN Conference on Women in 1995 was the birth of The Beijing Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint ever ...
Sexual Violence and Disability in Kyrgyzstan: Law, Policy, Practice and Access to Justice
28 May 2023
Globally, an estimated 736 million women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner...
I need the ERA because...LGBTQ+ rights are human rights
28 June 2023
Because discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation is sex discrimination, the ERA will make it much...
Twenty Years of the Maputo Protocol: Where Are We Now?
04 July 2023
On July 11 2003, African heads of state and government representatives gathered in Maputo, Mozambique, to adopt one of the mo...
What will the impact of the metaverse be on human vulnerability?
12 July 2023
There is much hype around the development of the metaverse, a new digital space which has the potential to be so real and imm...
Ending Child Marriage in Eastern and Southern Africa: Challenges in Implementing Domestic Laws and the SADC Model Law on Child Marriage
22 August 2023
The Eastern and Southern African region has some of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with an estimated 31% o...
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