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Celebrating Our Progress: Our 2022 Impact Report 

June 12, 2023

In 2022, the world witnessed a dramatic erosion of the rights and freedoms of women and girls, including in Afghanistan, Iran...

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Online Abuse: US Supreme Court Rulings on Tech Companies’ Responsibility to protect users from harmful content  

June 8, 2023

By Amanda Manyame, Digital Law and Rights Expert, Equality Now On May 18, 2023, the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Twitt...

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Uzbekistan’s strides against gender-based violence: Strengthened protections and the path to further reforms

June 8, 2023

Uzbekistan adopted a new law against gender-based violence, which came into force in April 2023. Equality Now welcomes the ad...

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Sexual violence in Bangladesh: How years of activism by CSOs led to landmark amendment to the Evidence Act

May 11, 2023

We have a shared vision of addressing violence and discrimination against girls and women in the world and believe that all o...

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A Ruling on Marital Rape in India is Coming Up. Here’s Why You Should Be Watching Closely

May 4, 2023

In what could lead to a landmark ruling on the long-standing issue, the Supreme Court of India will hear a group of petitions...

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It’s Time for Governments to Change Sex Discriminatory Laws

May 3, 2023

Every five years since 1999, Equality Now has highlighted explicitly sex-discriminatory laws that need to be reformed in our ...

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The Culture of Impunity Needs to Be Addressed

April 25, 2023

In the first few months of 2023 alone, multiple cases of rape and sexual misconduct against women and children have been repo...

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Climate change in Malawi is putting women and girls at greater risk of sexual and gender-based violence

April 24, 2023

By Tsitsi Matekaire and Tara Carey It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from t...

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Ending discrimination against women in family law is vital for economic progress

April 18, 2023

By Hyshyama Hamin, Campaign Manager, Global Campaign for Equality in Family Law Discriminatory family laws and policies that ...

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Let Girls Learn: What happened after Sierra Leone lifted the ban on pregnant girls attending school? 

March 30, 2023

Three years ago today, President Julius Maada Bio announced that the Government of Sierra Leone had lifted the ban prohibitin...

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Equality Now’s Statement on the Denial of Entry Into Georgia of Its Legal Advisor

March 30, 2023

On March 28 2023, Equality Now’s Eurasia Legal Advisor, Dariana Gryaznova, who has been working with us since September 202...

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ChatGPT-4 reinforces sexist stereotypes by stating a girl cannot “handle technicalities and numbers” in engineering

March 23, 2023

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT-4 has impressive capabilities and the potential to benefit and reshape soc...