Kenya’s High Court rules anti-FGM law is constitutional: A jubilant day for girls and women in Kenya
March 17, 2021
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 17 – A three-judge bench of the High Court in Nairobi has upheld and validated the constitutionality...
Child marriage is a serious problem in Georgia, survivors are calling for change
December 7, 2020
GEORGIA, TBILISI, December 7, 2020 - Georgia has one of the highest rates of child marriage in Eastern Europe, but the prob...
India’s justice system is failing survivors of caste-based sexual violence
November 24, 2020
NEW DELHI, INDIA, Nov 25, 2020 – A new report reveals how India’s justice system is failing survivors of caste-based sex...
Court case filed against Tanzania to overturn ban on pregnant girls attending school
November 19, 2020
NAIROBI, KENYA, Nov 19, 2020 - International women’s rights organization Equality Now alongside its partner in Tanzania, ha...
Campaigners demand government action on epidemic of caste-based sexual violence in Uttar Pradesh
October 3, 2020
Over 75 human rights organizations sign an open letter to Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister over failure to protect Dalit ...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights to hear landmark case on endemic sexual violence of adolescent girls in Bolivia
August 11, 2020
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA/NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 11, 2020 - On August 7th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) a...
Equality Now calls on Mali to take urgent action to protect girls and women from female genital mutilation
July 6, 2020
BAMOKO, July 6, 2020 - Equality Now welcomes the comprehensive and timely report by the Committee on the Elimination of D...
Victory for girls in Sierra Leone as the government lifts the ban that prohibits pregnant schoolgirls from attending school
March 30, 2020
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, March 30 – The government of Sierra Leone has finally lifted the discriminatory ban that prohibits...
FGM/C is occurring in over 90 countries and is far more widespread than generally acknowledged
March 17, 2020
BRUSSELS, LONDON, SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 2020 - Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C) is happening in far more count...
Governments called on to end laws that explicitly discriminate against women and girls
March 8, 2020
LONDON, March 8 – Almost every country in the world is failing to live up to the pledges they have made to eradicate expl...
Over 100 sign statement supporting Silence Breakers who’ve spoken out about being sexually assaulted by Russell Simmons
January 23, 2020
Los Angeles/New York, January 23, 2020 - Music mogul Russell Simmons has been accused of sexually assaulting over twenty wome...
Victory for pregnant girls in Sierra Leone
December 12, 2019
ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec 12 – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice has found that the governm...