Litigating the Maputo Protocol: A Compendium of Strategies and Approaches for Defending the Rights of Women in Africa
December 17, 2020
Litigating the Maputo Protocol: A Compendium of Strategies and Approaches for Defending the Rights of Women and Girls in Afri...
SOAWR Strategic Plan 2020-2024
November 9, 2020
For more than a decade and a half, the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition has remained ...
Sierra Leone – Submission to UN Universal Periodic Review 38th Session April 2021
October 21, 2020
This submission outlines the gaps in the protection of the rights of women and girls in Sierra Leone with regard to sexual vi...
Submissions to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) 66th Session 2020
July 23, 2020
Equality Now submitted the following statements to the 66th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People...
Malawi – joint submission to UN Universal Periodic Review 36th Session May 2020
October 2, 2019
This submission details our concerns regarding human trafficking in general, and more specifically regarding trafficking...
Egypt UPR Submission 2019
April 11, 2019
This submission details our concerns regarding Egypt’s treatment of Women Human Rights Defenders, discriminatory provisions...
Mauritania – Equality Now joint submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 79th Session September 2018
October 15, 2018
The joint submission deals with our concerns regarding the continued violations against women and girls, including female gen...
Sudan – Equality Now submission to the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) 124th Session October 2018
September 7, 2018
The submission respectfully urges the Committee to recommend to Sudan to comprehensively amend Article 149 of its 1991 Crimin...
Liberia Human Rights Committee Submission 2018
July 30, 2018
The submission, based on consultation with Equality Now’s partners in Liberia including Women Solidarity Incorporated (WOSI...
Breathing Life into the Maputo Protocol: Case Digest – Jurisprudence on the Rights of Women and Girls in Africa
April 7, 2018
This Digest aims to promote the use of one of the world’s most comprehensive and progressive human rights instruments ̵...
Litigating Before The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: A Practice Manual
November 7, 2017
We have developed this manual following requests from lawyers who have benefited from training on using the African Protocol ...