Cyclone Freddy Has Put Women & Girls in Malawi At Greater Risk of Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
June 12, 2023
By Tara Carey, Global Head of Media, Equality Now “Cyclone Freddy was a terrible experience, and now many women who lost th...
Celebrating Our Progress: Our 2022 Impact Report
June 12, 2023
In 2022, the world witnessed a dramatic erosion of the rights and freedoms of women and girls, including in Afghanistan, Iran...
Online Abuse: US Supreme Court Rulings on Tech Companies’ Responsibility to protect users from harmful content
June 8, 2023
By Amanda Manyame, Digital Law and Rights Expert, Equality Now On May 18, 2023, the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Twitt...
Uzbekistan’s strides against gender-based violence: Strengthened protections and the path to further reforms
June 8, 2023
Uzbekistan adopted a new law against gender-based violence, which came into force in April 2023. Equality Now welcomes the ad...
Sexual violence in Bangladesh: How years of activism by CSOs led to landmark amendment to the Evidence Act
May 11, 2023
We have a shared vision of addressing violence and discrimination against girls and women in the world and believe that all o...
A Ruling on Marital Rape in India is Coming Up. Here’s Why You Should Be Watching Closely
May 4, 2023
In what could lead to a landmark ruling on the long-standing issue, the Supreme Court of India will hear a group of petitions...
It’s Time for Governments to Change Sex Discriminatory Laws
May 3, 2023
Every five years since 1999, Equality Now has highlighted explicitly sex-discriminatory laws that need to be reformed in our ...
The Culture of Impunity Needs to Be Addressed
April 25, 2023
In the first few months of 2023 alone, multiple cases of rape and sexual misconduct against women and children have been repo...
Climate change in Malawi is putting women and girls at greater risk of sexual and gender-based violence
April 24, 2023
By Tsitsi Matekaire and Tara Carey It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from t...
Ending discrimination against women in family law is vital for economic progress
April 18, 2023
By Hyshyama Hamin, Campaign Manager, Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law Discriminatory family laws and policies that ...
Let Girls Learn: What happened after Sierra Leone lifted the ban on pregnant girls attending school?
March 30, 2023
Three years ago today, President Julius Maada Bio announced that the Government of Sierra Leone had lifted the ban prohibitin...
Equality Now’s Statement on the Denial of Entry Into Georgia of Its Legal Advisor
March 30, 2023
On March 28 2023, Equality Now’s Eurasia Legal Advisor, Dariana Gryaznova, who has been working with us since September 202...