What we do

Everything we do at Equality Now delivers against one of four strategic aims, each addressing a key driver of global gender inequality: achieving legal equality, ending sexual violence, ending sexual exploitation, and ending harmful practices.

Equality Now leads the way in driving the legal and systemic change needed to end violence and discrimination against all women and girls, everywhere in the world, to the benefit of all.

Achieving legal equality

Discover how discrimination in the law affects women and girls, and society at large, and how Equality Now is driving legal reform globally.

Ending sexual violence

Discover how Equality Now uses legal reform, survivor-centered advocacy, and international collaboration to end sexual violence worldwide.

Ending sexual exploitation

Learn how we work to end sexual exploitation and abuse across physical and digital spaces in all its forms.

Ending harmful practices

Discover how Equality Now works to end harmful practices like child marriage, female genital mutilation, and bride kidnapping through legal reform and advocacy.

Women’s rights worldwide

Every woman and girl – no matter where she lives – deserves to be protected by laws that uphold her equality, dignity, and freedom and allow her to fulfil her potential.

Women’s rights & international law

Learn how Equality Now and civil society use international law to drive global gender equality and legal reform for women and girls.

Every year, our work leads to legal, systemic, and cultural progress that translates into real and positive change for millions of women and girls around the world. In 2024, we improved justice for over 52 million women & girls.

Our approach

Operating worldwide, alongside partners at national, regional and global levels, our proven and pioneering approach draws on our exemplary technical skills and understanding – as well as a diverse and invaluable range of political, social and cultural perspectives – to impact on every driver of legal and systemic change.

We are experts.

We inform and advise; working with governments, policy-makers, and civil society to craft better laws and guide more effective implementation in every part of the world.

We are catalysts.

We convene and connect; building coalitions and creating movements to collectively tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues, with partners at both grassroots and global levels.

We are reformers.

We challenge and champion; holding power to account through targeted advocacy and campaigns, while platforming and amplifying the most marginalized voices.

Find out more about our theory of change

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