The state of gender equality in the US: A Universal Periodic Review shadow report

This report is a public-facing version of a joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council ahead of the United States’ fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Prepared by Equality Now, the ERA Coalition, the U.S. End FGM/C Network, Unchained At Last, and the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi), it outlines four areas where the US is in clear violation of its international legal obligations: the lack of universally recognized constitutional equality on the basis of sex, the ongoing legal loopholes that allow child marriage, insufficient protections against FGM/C, and the failure to comprehensively address online sexual exploitation and abuse. It is designed to support peer States, civil society, and other advocates in issuing strong, evidence-based recommendations during the US’ review and advancing meaningful change.