The COVID-19 crisis has magnified structural inequalities and systematic violations across the world. In Kenya, the situation is no different. There has been an escalation in cases of gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, with women and children bearing the brunt.

This submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women details concerns regarding Russia's sexual violence laws, procedures, and practices that are effectively denying survivors access to justice.

This submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women details concerns regarding Uzbekistan's sexual violence laws, procedures, and practices that are effectively denying survivors access to justice.

This submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women details concerns regarding Bolivia’s failure to protect adolescent girls from sexual violence and provide survivors access to justice.

We need a strong inclusive women’s movement that acknowledges that we are complex and diverse beings, that we won’t always agree on the approach but that we always need to engage with integrity and respect while trying to avoid the patriarchal snares that seek to divide us.

The submission deals with our concerns about sexual violence laws and procedures in Russia that deny justice to survivors and constitute violations of Russia's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

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Globally one in three women are subjected to violence in her lifetime, and one in 10 girls have experienced “forced sexual acts”. On 27 May 2020, Equality Now joined with the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women to co-host an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender-based violence against women.

The submission deals with our concerns about sexual violence laws and procedures in Russia that deny justice to survivors and constitute violations of Russia's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).