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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 ...

Publications

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...

Submissions

Ukraine – Sexual Violence and Stigmatisation of Victims – NGO Shadow Report on the Implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Ukraine, July 2024

July 18, 2024

Equality Now, together with the partners The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), Women’s  Initiatives for Gende...

Submissions

The Gambia – Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 48th Session of the Universal Periodic Review, July 2024

July 16, 2024

Equality Now and GAMCOTRAP make this joint submission to the Human Rights Council at the 48th Session of the Universal Period...

Submissions

Iran – Submission to the Human Rights Council  at the 48th Session of the Universal Periodic Review, January 2025

July 11, 2024

Equality Now and our partners The Centre for Supporters of Human Rights and Femena made this submission to the Working Group ...

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...