A Culture of Shame: Sexual Violence and Access to Justice in Uzbekistan
November 23, 2021
Around the world, rape and sexual abuse are everyday violent occurrences. Rape is always an act of violence and an expression...
Ending Online Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Women and Girls: A Call for International Standards
November 15, 2021
Online sexual exploitation and abuse are growing at an alarming pace globally. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable as...
Failure to Protect: How Discriminatory Sexual Violence Laws and Practices are Hurting Women, Girls, and Adolescents in the Americas
September 16, 2021
Being able to live a life free from violence, including sexual violence, is a fundamental human right. Despite this, sexual v...
Eliminating Caste-Based Sexual Violence in India – Recommendations for the prevention of sexual violence against Dalit women and girls
August 31, 2021
These recommendations have been collated by the National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) with support from the ...
Sexual Violence in South Asia: Legal and Other Barriers to Justice for Survivors
April 20, 2021
Protection gaps in rape laws and barriers to accessing justice continue to lead to effective denial of justice for survivors ...
Courage: Survivors of child marriage in Georgia share their stories
December 7, 2020
This publication tells the stories of seven women, victims of violence, who were forced to marry as children. Some were able ...
UK Women and Girls Manifesto 2019
December 1, 2020
The upcoming UK General Election offers an opportunity for all political parties to explicitly support equality for women. Wo...
Justice Denied: Sexual Violence & Intersectional Discrimination – Barriers to Accessing Justice for Dalit Women and Girls in Haryana, India
November 24, 2020
Dalits – officially designated as Scheduled Castes by India’s Constitution – are at the bottom of caste and cla...
Honor over Justice: How Kuwait’s Penal Code is failing to protect the human rights of women & girls
November 19, 2020
This document, produced in partnership with Abolish Article 153, is an analysis of the domestic provisions with reg...
SOAWR Strategic Plan 2020-2024
November 9, 2020
For more than a decade and a half, the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition has remained ...
Submission to the Republic of Ireland’s Independent Review of the Operation of Part 4 of The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, 2017
September 18, 2020
Submission to the public consultation on the Republic of Ireland’s Independent Review of the Operation of Part 4 of th...
Rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender-based violence against women
August 12, 2020
On 27 May 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (UN SR VAW), Ms. Dubravka Š...