MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett award Equality Now $15 million gift to advance women’s and girls’ rights
March 23, 2022
USA, New York, March 23, 2022 – Equality Now, a leading international women’s rights organization that harnesses the ...
Africa making progress on tackling gender-based violence thanks to multi-sectoral approach but shortfalls remain, finds new report
March 23, 2022
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 23, 2022 – A new report has found countries in Africa are making progress in addressing and preventin...
Following another death from FGM in Sierra Leone, 130 women’s rights groups around the world call on the government to criminalize FGM
February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022 – Following yet another tragic death in Sierra Leone due to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), women’s...
National and international laws are failing to protect women and girls from online sexual exploitation and abuse
November 15, 2021
USA, New York, Nov 15, 2021 – Online sexual exploitation and abuse (OSEA) of women and girls is increasing at an alarmi...
Special Manual developed for Investigators, Prosecutors and Judges working on Cases of Sexual Violence in Georgia
September 22, 2021
TBILISI, GEORGIA - A new manual, aimed at improving access to justice for victims of sexual violence in the Georgian crimina...
Rape laws across the Americas insufficient, inconsistent, and poorly enforced, leaving women at heightened risk of sexual violence
September 15, 2021
USA, New York, September 15th - A new report by international human rights organization Equality Now reveals how rape laws a...
India’s government must do more to end caste-based sexual violence, say Dalit women’s rights activists
August 31, 2021
INDIA - Dalit women’s rights activists in the National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) are voicing serious concerns ab...
Status of women’s and girls’ rights in Kenya, 26 years after Kenya committed to the promotion of gender equality
July 30, 2021
NAIROBI/LONDON/WASHINGTON D.C. July 30, 2021 - It has been more than 26 years now since more than 180 governments, includin...
#EndCasteBasedSexualViolence campaign launched by National Council of Women Leaders
July 19, 2021
INDIA, July 19, 2021: National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) is a newly established coalition bringing together from acro...
Rape laws across South Asia insufficient, inconsistent, and poorly enforced, leaving women at heightened risk of sexual violence
April 21, 2021
INDIA, New Delhi, April 21 - A new report reveals how laws on rape in South Asian countries are insufficient, inconsistent, a...
Women’s rights organizations challenge Mali’s lack of anti FGM law at the ECOWAS Court of Justice
April 12, 2021
ABUJA, NIGERIA, April 12, 2021 – Leading women’s rights organizations have jointly filed a case at the Economic Community...
Kenya’s High Court rules anti-FGM law is constitutional: A jubilant day for girls and women in Kenya
March 17, 2021
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 17 – A three-judge bench of the High Court in Nairobi has upheld and validated the constitutionality...