The State We’re In: Sex discriminatory nationality laws in the MENA region
July 20, 2022
In 2022, four years after the Arab League’s endorsement of the Arab Declaration on Belonging and Identity, the Middle E...
HRC 50 Resolution on the Elimination of FGM – A Timely and Critical Focus on Cross-Border Practices
July 14, 2022
The Resolution on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was adopted by consensus at the 50th session of the UN H...
19 reasons why the Maputo Protocol is beneficial to women and girls in Africa
July 11, 2022
19 years ago, African States adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Wome...
The reality of sex discrimination in nationality laws in a disrupted world
July 7, 2022
Under international law, everyone has the right to be born with a nationality – anywhere in the world – and to be secure ...
Our statement on the US Supreme Court’s Decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
June 24, 2022
Equality Now considers reproductive rights – including the right to bear or not to bear children – an integ...
Ensuring women have equal rights to inheritance and property is key to tackling climate change
June 23, 2022
By Roya Rahmani, Former Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States and Global Strategist at Equality Now To mitigate agai...
Holding Malawi accountable at the ACERWC for denying justice to survivors of trafficking for sexual exploitation: Maggie’s case
June 16, 2022
In Malawi, one in every five women girls is at risk of sexual violence and abuse and 42% of girls experience physical violenc...
Day of the African Child: Partnering to end FGM in West Africa
June 16, 2022
We believe people working together can change the world. In West Africa, we’re proud to be a part of a movement working to ...
Demanding justice in Nepal: How statutes of limitations impede access to justice for survivors of sexual violence
June 2, 2022
Activists in Nepal took to the streets on Friday, May 20, calling for an end to Nepal’s restrictive statute of limitati...
Dear President Bio, Please Ban Female Genital Mutilation in Sierra Leone
June 1, 2022
This letter was originally published in The Nation on June 1, 2022. Dear President Bio We, women’s rights actors living and...
Family Laws in MENA Fail to Protect Women and Girls
May 12, 2022
As the world celebrates the International Day of Families on May 15th, millions of women and girls across the Middle East and...
Misogynistic online abuse poses major threat to women journalists
May 3, 2022
Women journalists around the world are experiencing an exponential increase in misogynistic online abuse, which poses a grave...