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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...

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Sexual Violence and Harassment in the Metaverse

April 26, 2024

The metaverse is a space where emerging manifestation of sexual violence are occurring, with female-presenting avatars far mo...

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Briefing Paper: Doxing, Digital Abuse, and the Law

February 27, 2024

This brief provides preliminary research findings on the legal frameworks in nine focus jurisdictions designed to protect peo...

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How Russia implements the CoE Convention on the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation: Russia’s Civil Society Report, February 2024

February 1, 2024

Equality Now and the Stichting Justice Initiative Project provide the reply to the questionnaire to the third monitoring roun...

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Briefing Paper: Deepfake Image-Based Sexual Abuse, Tech Facilitated Sexual Exploitation and the Law 

January 17, 2024

Deepfake image-based sexual abuse represents a growing and alarming form of tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse t...

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Malawi – Submission to ACERWC 42nd Session on Child Marriage and Child Sexual Exploitation October 2023

October 23, 2023

Our joint submission to the 42nd Ordinary Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child ...

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Submission to The UN Human Rights B-Tech Project Call for inputs: Gender, Tech & the Role of Business -September 2023

September 30, 2023

Equality Now presents the following submission in response to the UN Human Rights B-Tech Project Call for inputs: Gender, Tec...

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What will the impact of the metaverse be on human vulnerability?

July 12, 2023

There is much hype around the development of the metaverse, a new digital space which has the potential to be so real and imm...

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Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Slavery (HCR) 78th session 2023

April 27, 2023

Equality Now respectfully submits this brief to the Office of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, includ...

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Enhancing Policy Responses to Addressing Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) in Kenya

January 12, 2023

Every year, over 400 million children around the world are exposed to child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). Defined as ...

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Declaration of the Youth Forum for the 4th LAC Regional Conference on Population and Development

June 30, 2022

An intersectional statement, signed by Equality Now partners and other youth organizations, urging governments to guarantee t...