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The long overdue regional law on female genital mutilation: A welcome initiative in East Africa

This policy brief analyses the draft EAC Elimination of FGM Bill, 2025 and provides key arguments and messages to support its adoption across all EAC Partner States.

The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls (WGDAWG) 

The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls will visit Zimbabwe to understand issues related to discrimination against women and girls.

Telling stories, driving change: A toolkit for ethical gender-based violence cases documentation

This toolkit helps young activists and civil society actors across MENA safely and ethically document cases of SGBV in a survivor-centered way.

Latest News & Insights

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11th July 2025

10 mins

Our rights are non-negotiable: How reservations to the Maputo Protocol are holding back women’s rights in Africa

Press Releases

10th July 2025

6 mins

The long-awaited law to end FGM in the East African community

News and Insights

4th July 2025

10 mins

“It still hurts”: Sudanese women speak out on FGM

News and Insights Uncategorised

3rd July 2025

5 mins

Connecticut misses clear opportunity to ban FGM/C within its state: We’re still advocating

News and Insights

30th June 2025

16 mins

The Supreme Court ruling in the Skrmetti case should have taken sex discrimination into account: 5 things to know

News and Insights

30th June 2025

10 mins

Governments must strengthen efforts to tackle child marriage in Southern Africa 

News and Insights

24th June 2025

13 mins

A Decade of Marriage Equality in the US: 5 Reasons We Still Need the ERA for LGBTQ+ Rights this Pride Month

News and Insights

22nd June 2025

9 mins

Feminist Culture Club: June 2025

Feminist Culture

17th June 2025

15 mins

JUSTAS: The Journey of Survivors – A New Video Podcast by Equality Now and the Thelma Fardin Foundation

News and Insights

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