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Sierra Leone Must Let Girls Learn

June 21, 2016

Equality Now Is Working With Partners To End Sexual Violence Against Girls In Sierra Leone. UPDATE: In March 2020, the gove...

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Equality Now Africa Celebrates Its Sweet 16!

June 17, 2016

In 2000, Equality Now opened its Africa Office in Nairobi, Kenya. In May 2016, staff looked back on 16 ye...

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64-12! France Votes To Criminalize Buying Sex & Decriminalize People In Prostitution

June 1, 2016

The Nordic Model Of Laws To Ending Sex Trafficking And Commercial Sexual Exploitation Continues To Gain Ground In Europe!&nbs...

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Watch: I’m Just A Law

May 13, 2016

Watch The Video, Raise Your Voice! No More #unsexylaws In 1995, 189 countries pledged to “revoke any remaining laws tha...

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U.S. Military Is Still A Hostile Environment For Women

May 11, 2016

Since 2013, together with our partner the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN), we have been working to combat se...

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April 2016 Member News

April 30, 2016

A round-up of our work in April 2016 News COMING SOON – EQUALITY NOW’S NEW LOOK AND FEEL We may not be turning 25 until n...

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Women Creating Change

March 30, 2016

Women’s History Month interview with Equality Now’s Global Executive Director, Yasmeen Hassan.  Editor’...

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Interview With Yasmeen Hassan

March 8, 2016

Co-founder and Chairwoman Janvi Patel of Legal Advisory Group, Halebury, sat down with Equality Now’s Yasmeen...

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Victory For Makeda!

March 3, 2016

Justice for Girls – a legal victory 15 years in the making! We are thrilled to announce a victory in one of o...

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End “Honor” Killings

February 29, 2016

At age 19, Saba eloped to marry a young man she loved. When her father called her home, supposedly to reconcile, he and her u...

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Report: Ending Sexism In Nationality Laws

January 26, 2016

Imagine then what it is like to be born without a nationality or to be denied the citizenship of your mother, or at times you...

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Celebrating The Africa-led Movement To End FGM In One Generation

October 10, 2014

Across the African continent, people are coming together to abandon this violence against women and girls. Equality Now is a ...