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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...