Young people and digital rights: Perspectives from Southern Africa
September 18, 2024
As a member of the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi), we are looking forward to the final Global Digital Compact ...
Understanding the Beijing Platform for Action: The global pledge to achieve gender equality 29 years on
September 15, 2024
Legal equality is the foundation for transformative change across all sectors of society. By removing discriminatory laws, we...
Where You’ll Find Equality Now At UNGA79 and the Summit of the Future
September 10, 2024
What is UNGA? The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the United Nations. Comprising all Member Sta...
We condemn the horrific rape and murder of a young female doctor in Kolkata, India. Sexual violence, rape and killing of women everywhere must stop now.
August 27, 2024
The South Asian Movement for Accessing Justice (SAMAJ) and Equality Now stand in solidarity and condemn the brutal rape and m...
The Young Feminist Party: A New Generation’s Push to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment
August 26, 2024
Less than 100 days before the US presidential election of 2024, a budding national coalition of under-30 feminists gathered i...
Financial Rights in the MENA Region: The Struggle for Equitable Division of Marital Properties Post-Divorce
August 23, 2024
A series of case studies for women deprived of financial rights in marriage and after divorce. Read in Arabic below. In the M...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Establishing Good Sexual Violence Laws for Survivors with Disabilities
August 16, 2024
“In sexualized violence, the victim is herself is considered to be blamed for what happened to her,” explained an ano...
Where You’ll Find Equality Now At The SADC People’s Summit 2024
August 15, 2024
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) People’s Summit takes place from 15th – 16th August 2024 in Harare, ...
The Global Digital Compact & You
August 13, 2024
Technology is rapidly changing and advancing. International and national laws have not kept pace when it comes to countering ...
International Youth Day 2024: Our Work with Young People to Make Gender Equality a Reality
August 12, 2024
Young people can have a big impact on helping to create change, after all, it’s their future they are shaping. August 12 ma...
August 9: Global Solidarity for Survivors of Childhood and Adolescence Sexual Violence
August 9, 2024
Leer en español On August 9th, we join organizations and activists in Bolivia and other parts of the world to commemorate th...
Viewing Consent Through a Digital Lens
August 7, 2024
In 2023, over 500,000 sexually explicit images or videos of real people were created using a computer algorithm, commonly kno...