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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...

Submissions

Kyrgyzstan – Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 49th Session, October 2024

October 11, 2024

Equality Now and its partners – Public Association Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan, Public Association Union of People with Disa...

Publications

Breaking Barriers: Addressing Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Eurasia

October 10, 2024

This report examines child, early, and forced marriages (CEFM) in seven Eurasian countries—Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ky...

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Ending Child, Early And Forced Marriages And Unions In Argentina: Legal And Policy Frameworks

October 9, 2024

This report, developed by Equality Now in collaboration with CLADEM, examines the legal and policy frameworks surrounding chi...

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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...

Submissions

Georgia – Third Party Intervention before the European Court of Human Rights, September 2024

September 25, 2024

Equality Now and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre submitted a joint third-party intervention before the European Cou...

Publications

Protecting Rights and Unleashing Potential for Girls: The Exit Report of the Former African Union Goodwill Ambassador on Ending Child Marriages

September 19, 2024

Child marriage has major detrimental impacts on millions of girls annually. According to UNICEF, 650 million girls and women ...

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Ending Child, Early and Forced Marriages and Unions in Colombia

August 28, 2024

This Policy Brief advocates for essential reforms to combat child, early, and forced marriage and unions (CEFMU) in Colombia....

Submissions

Armenia – Information for Consideration by the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its 97th Session, August 2024

August 15, 2024

Equality Now, together with its partners based in Armenia – Sexual Assault Crisis Centre NGO, the Women’s Resource Ce...

Submissions

Uzbekistan – Communications with UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), August 2024 

August 1, 2024

Equality Now, in partnership with NGOs based in Uzbekistan – Istiqbolli Avlod, NIHOL Initiative’s Development and Sup...

Publications

Kenya Judicial Bench Book On Trafficking For Sexual Exploitation

July 29, 2024

In Kenya, trafficking in persons is prevalent, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is one of the most comm...