Ending online sexual exploitation and abuse (OSEA) is one of the most pressing issues of our time, yet key challenges remain in both preventing and prosecuting the practice. The scope and scale of the internet and digital connectivity and increasingly ...
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Learn more about Equality Now’s recent amicus brief in defense of the ERA, and what else is coming up for the Equal Rights Amendment in the ...
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On November 26, 2021, a Resident Magistrate in Kenya’s Shanzu Law Court delivered a landmark ruling, finding a prominent businessman who holds Canadian and UK passports, guilty of trafficking 12 Nepalese women and girls into Kenya and sentenced him to 60 ...
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In Sierra Leone on 20 December 2021, 21-year-old Maseray Sei died from complications arising from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The young woman, who was subjected to the human rights abuse with other young women, is reported to have bled to death. FGM in ...
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On October 11, 2021, the Coalition against Sexual Violence against girls and adolescents in Bolivia, comprised of Equality Now, The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights, Bolivia (CLADEM-Bolivia), The Legal Office of ...
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In early 2021, Kenya became only the 17th country out of the 42 state parties to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the Maputo Protocol, to submit a report on its implementation ...
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Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Created in 1992, the United Nations established IDPD as both an annual celebration of people with disabilities as well as a call to mobilize support and action for critical issues relating to ...
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Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the use of defamation lawsuits to retaliate against and silence women who have publicly denounced gender-based violence – including survivors who have spoken out against their own abuse. This form of ...
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At Equality Now, we know that discriminatory laws don’t reverse themselves and that change is not possible unless we all work together. Giving Tuesday is this week, and we want to do our part to ensure that more resources are devoted to helping make ...
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Sexual violence thrives in silence. It thrives in the silence of communities who excuse it as a ‘private issue’. It thrives in the silence of law enforcement who dismiss victim testimonies as not credible. And it thrives in the silence of the law ...
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