Legal analysis & frameworks
Legal analysis and model legislative frameworks: from sexual violence to family law, female genital mutilation to tech-facilitated gender based violence.
Since 1992, Equality Now has worked to eliminate all barriers to legal and systemic gender equality through expert advocacy, strategic litigation, partnerships, and grassroots collaboration. As a recognised international human rights expert, convener and reformer, we shape laws, unite powerful movements, and hold power to account—delivering enduring change to the benefit of all.
Around the world, laws still fall short of guaranteeing gender equality. We inform and advise national and local governments and parliamentary bodies, supporting them to align their legal systems with international human rights law and best practice.
Legal analysis and model legislative frameworks: from sexual violence to family law, female genital mutilation to tech-facilitated gender based violence.
Technical assistance on international and regional human rights obligations: including the Maputo Protocol and the Belem do Para Convention, to United Nations Treaty Body obligations.
Context-specific policy development informed by our global expertise: guided by our global expertise and grounded in local realities.
Over 30 years, we’ve helped reform more than 120 discriminatory laws across the globe transforming the lives of millions of people for generations to come.
In 2024 alone, we contributed to legal reform in 10 countries, strengthening protections for over 52 million women and girls. In past years, our work informed reforms in Nepal, Mexico, Uzbekistan, the USA, and Bolivia – ensuring gender-sensitive legislation and enforcement systems across regions.
Everything we do at Equality Now is based around our four strategic aims, all of which are defined by key drivers of global (in)equality.
Explore the issues we work on:
The impact of legal inequality is felt most directly by girls, women, and their families, but the wider economic and social consequences affect everyone. Research has shown that if women were to achieve full parity in the workforce, the global economy would increase by $7 trillion USD.
Securing legal equality for women and girls unlocks the full promise of gender equality – and with it, a more stable, prosperous, sustainable future for everyone.
Use our women’s rights around the world resource to explore legal gaps and how your government can lead the change.
Partner with us to align your laws with global standards of equality and justice, to build a just world for everyone.