3rd June 2025
12 mins
Women and Law in Southern Africa and Equality Now Call for Urgent Legal Reform to Support Child Marriage Survivors in Zimbabwe
Equality Now is an active agent of both legal and systemic change, working alongside local, national, and regional partners to secure enduring gender equality in every part of the world.
Ending Sexual Violence – Over her lifetime, one in three women will experience physical or sexual violence — regardless of age, background, or country — which means that sexual violence impacts women and girls in epidemic proportions. However, despite the pervasiveness of these crimes, laws around the world are insufficient, inconsistent, not systematically enforced, and, in some instances, even promote and perpetuate sexual violence.
Ending Harmful Practices – Despite the UN calling for the worldwide elimination of all harmful practices, including Female Genital Mutilation, by 2030, many countries still do not have adequate laws and policies in place to protect women and girls.
Ending Sexual Exploitation – systematic and structural discrimination mean that globally, it is women and girls who are most at risk of experiencing sexual exploitation, and governments and international bodies are failing to uphold the rights of millions of women and girls around the world.
Achieving Legal Equality – almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate on the basis of sex and/or gender, with the typical economy granting women just 75% of the rights that are enjoyed by men.
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