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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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See more donation options Donate in the UKNone 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.
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.
Iran – Submission to the Human Rights Committee 136th Session October 2022
This submission for consideration of the List of Issues for Iran covers our concerns regarding about sex discriminatory personal status laws, the continued prevalence of female genital mutilation …
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Kyrgyzstan – Submission To The Human Rights Committee (CCPR) 136th Session October 2022
Our joint submission details our concerns with regard to laws related to rape and other forms of sexual violence, as well as harmful practices and procedures and practices which …
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I need the ERA because…a girl is not a wife – Child marriage
It is estimated by Unchained at Last that about 300,000 children were married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, the majority of which were young girls married to adult men. Hundreds of thousands …
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Latest News and Insights
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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The State We’re In: Sex discriminatory nationality laws in the Americas region
Our updated report found that there are six countries in the Americas region with nationality laws that discriminate on the basis of sex: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guatemala, Saint Lucia, Saint …
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Annual Day Against Sexual Violence in Bolivia comes with some hope this year
August 9th is the National Day of Solidarity with Victims of Sexual Violence and Against Sexual Violence of Girls, Boys, and Adolescents in Bolivia, a day we mark each year alongside our partners. …
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The State We’re In: Sex-Discriminatory Nationality Laws in Asia
At the start of the year 2022, eight Asian countries – Bangladesh, Malaysia, Brunei, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand – had sex-discriminatory provisions in their citizenship laws. …
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