CSW67 Offers A First Look at a Digital Gender Equal Future
March 21, 2023
The sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), the largest annual meeting on gender equality hos...
International Day of Happiness: What Brings Us Joy at Equality Now
March 20, 2023
March 20th marks the International Day of Happiness, celebrated by the UN to recognize the importance of happiness in the liv...
One More Step, Madam President
March 19, 2023
Dear President Samia Suluhu Hassan, congratulations on the second anniversary of your presidency in Tanzania. Indeed under yo...
Digital Inclusion is Vital for Strengthening Women’s Rights in Africa
March 16, 2023
By S.Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director at Equality Now The internet has a pivotal role to play in empowering women and gi...
CSW67 Week One: The urgent need for the Global Digital Compact
March 13, 2023
The sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York is underway. During the first week, we c...
Helvi Sipilä Keynote Address: Women’s human rights and technological innovations
March 9, 2023
Equality Now’s Global Executive Director, S. Mona Sinha gave the following remarks as the keynote address at the 17th I...
Digital rights are vital to addressing tech-facilitated trafficking and sexual abuse
March 9, 2023
Equality Now’s Global Lead on Ending Sexual Exploitation, Tsitsi Matekaire, presented the following remarks at Technolo...
Solidarity with human rights defenders in Georgia
March 8, 2023
On March 7, 2023, Georgia’s controversial “foreign agent” law passed the first reading in the Georgian Par...
Joint Statement on International Women’s Day: Equality in Law for Women and Girls in a Digital Age
March 8, 2023
On International Women’s Day, we are reminded of the work still to be done to advance the gender equality agenda in a digit...
5 Reasons to Give this International Women’s Day
March 7, 2023
March 8 is International Women’s Day, a moment to celebrate women’s social, economic, cultural, and political achievement...
What could the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the ERA mean for equality in the US?
February 27, 2023
Update: On 28 February, 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its disappointing decis...
FGM in the Maldives – The Dilemma of Culture, Religion, and the Law
February 25, 2023
By Zayan Ismael, General Secretary at Uthema, Maldives As one of the smallest countries in South Asia, the Maldives has gaine...