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I need the ERA because…the voice of the US legal profession endorses it!

October 16, 2024

In August 2024, The American Bar Association, the largest national volunteer association of lawyers in the world, adopted&nbs...

Publications

Questions for Equality: Your 2024 United States Election Guide

October 2, 2024

Bodily autonomy, the rape epidemic, gaps in equal pay, receiving and providing paid care, and protections from child marriage...

Fact Sheets

I need the ERA because…paid care is a right – gender equality and the care economy

July 4, 2024

For more than a century, feminists have realized that omitting sex discrimination from the Constitution presents a major barr...

Fact Sheets

Reporting on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – US Factsheet

April 9, 2024

This factsheet is a quick guide for communications and media professionals who are looking to cover female genital mutilation...

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I need the ERA because…without the ERA, the US violates international law

March 8, 2024

In October 2023, the United States was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and for the first time, a UN tr...

Toolkits & Manuals

Reporting on the ERA: A toolkit for journalists

March 8, 2024

The Equal Rights Amendment has ongoing and urgent political and cultural relevance in the US and around the world. As a journ...

Fact Sheets

I need the ERA because… economic rights are human rights

March 5, 2024

In the United States, women do not have protections nor an explicit guarantee of equality on the basis of sex or gender withi...

Publications

Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee over the USA’s Failure to Uphold the Rights of Women and Girls in all their Diversity

October 19, 2023

The United States of America is violating its international legal obligations by failing to uphold the human rights of women ...

Submissions

The United States of America – Submission to the Human Rights Committee at the 139th Session September 2023

September 15, 2023

Equality Now, the ERA Coalition, Unchained at Last, the US End FGM/C Network and the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (A...

Fact Sheets

I need the ERA because…LGBTQ+ rights are human rights 

June 28, 2023

Because discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation is sex discrimination, the ERA will make it much...

Submissions

Testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on the ERA on 28 February 2023

February 27, 2023

Our Global Executive Director, S. Mona Sinha, submitted the below written testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judi...

Fact Sheets

I need the ERA because…a girl is not a wife – Child marriage

August 26, 2022

It is estimated by Unchained at Last that about 300,000 children were married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, the...