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Maldives – Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 78th Session 2020

January 8, 2021

This joint submission details our concerns with regard to laws related to rape and other forms of sexual violence a...

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Litigating the Maputo Protocol: A Compendium of Strategies and Approaches for Defending the Rights of Women in Africa

December 17, 2020

Litigating the Maputo Protocol: A Compendium of Strategies and Approaches for Defending the Rights of Women and Girls in Afri...

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Submission to the Scottish Government’s Equally Safe Consultation 2020

December 14, 2020

Submission to “Equally Safe: A consultation on challenging men’s demand for prostitution, working to reduce the ...

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Courage: Survivors of child marriage in Georgia share their stories

December 7, 2020

This publication tells the stories of seven women, victims of violence, who were forced to marry as children. Some were able ...

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UK Women and Girls Manifesto 2019

December 1, 2020

The upcoming UK General Election offers an opportunity for all political parties to explicitly support equality for women. Wo...

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Justice Denied: Sexual Violence & Intersectional Discrimination – Barriers to Accessing Justice for Dalit Women and Girls in Haryana, India

November 24, 2020

Dalits – officially designated as Scheduled Castes by India’s Constitution – are at the bottom of caste and cla...

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Honor over Justice: How Kuwait’s Penal Code is failing to protect the human rights of women & girls

November 19, 2020

This document, produced in partnership with Abolish Article 153, is an analysis of the domestic provisions with reg...

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SOAWR Strategic Plan 2020-2024

November 9, 2020

For more than a decade and a half, the Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) Coalition has remained ...

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Sierra Leone – Submission to UN Universal Periodic Review 38th Session April 2021

October 21, 2020

This submission outlines the gaps in the protection of the rights of women and girls in Sierra Leone with regard to sexual vi...

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Submission to the Republic of Ireland’s Independent Review of the Operation of Part 4 of The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, 2017

September 18, 2020

Submission to the public consultation on the Republic of Ireland’s Independent Review of the Operation of Part 4 of th...

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Bolivia – Submission to the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) 130th Session 2020

September 11, 2020

This joint submission details our concerns with regard to laws related to rape and other forms of sexual violence, and&n...

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Rape as a grave and systematic human rights violation and gender-based violence against women

August 12, 2020

On 27 May 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (UN SR VAW), Ms. Dubravka Š...