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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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, ...

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The Global Digital Compact & You

August 13, 2024

Update:  Global Digital Compact adopted at the Summit of the Future in September 2024 Technology is rapidly changing and adv...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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How African governments can lead the way on ending child marriage

August 6, 2024

By Deborah Nyokabi,  Gender Policy Expert,  Equality Now Nairobi, Kenya, July 22, 2024: Thandi*, a 14-year-old girl from Ma...