Building on Three Decades of Equality Now – Our Hopes for the Future of Women’s Rights
April 8, 2022
Earlier this week, we shared what some members of our global team are most proud of about the work they do every day to help ...
Together We Are Making Gender Equality Reality: Celebrating 30 Years of Equality Now
April 7, 2022
This week marks our 30th Anniversary, an exciting milestone for all of our supporters and for our team of experts across the ...
A Call for an Intersectional Feminist Informed Universal Declaration on Digital Rights
April 5, 2022
The Internet is in many ways a reflection of “real life” and thus structural inequalities, such as racism and misogyny th...
Liberian government suspends FGM for three years: What’s the next big step?
March 31, 2022
In February 2022, the head of the Traditional Council of Liberia, Chief Zanzan Karwor announced a three-year suspension on FG...
Good Laws Are The Floor, Not The Ceiling Of What We Can Achieve
March 28, 2022
Good laws can not only signal and even positively influence society’s values, they also provide a structure from which to p...
Equality Now High-Level Mission to Eliminate FGM in Sierra Leone Makes Gains with Key State Agencies
March 22, 2022
As part of our campaign for the enactment of a specific law criminalizing female genital mutilation (FGM) without exception t...
Human Rights Court to Hear Groundbreaking Case on Sexual Violence in Bolivia
March 17, 2022
On March 29th-30th, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) will hear the case Brisa De Angulo Losada v. Bolivia, a...
Commission on the Status of Women 66 – Our Statement
March 14, 2022
Equality Now, an international human rights organization and a steering committee member of several coalitions, including the...
The best path to gender equality is through family law reform
March 8, 2022
For the past 20 years, International Women’s Day has been celebrated across Afghanistan’s urban centers. The government h...
Sexual Violence Laws are Failing Adolescents
March 3, 2022
At Equality Now, we have been on a years-long journey to track and analyze sexual violence laws and their implementation arou...
Equality Now and NIHOL are joining forces to promote gender equality in Uzbekistan
February 23, 2022
Despite recent action to improve gender equality in Uzbekistan, there is still far to go. As in most post-Soviet countries, t...
Noura Hussein freed from prison
February 18, 2022
In 2018 you supported a campaign that helped Noura Hussein, a young Sudanese woman escape a death sentence. Noura was forcibl...