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Submission on the EU initiative on gender-based violence and domestic violence

February 22, 2021

Equality Now welcomes the European Union (EU) initiative to provide uniform standards for preventing gender-based violence, p...

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Bhutan Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 80th Session 2021

February 5, 2021

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

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Russia CAT Submission 2021

February 5, 2021

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

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Nepal – Submission to the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) 131st Session March 2021

January 11, 2021

This submission, ahead of the 131st session of the Human Rights Committee, details our concern about sexual violence laws and...

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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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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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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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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...

Court Documents

Letter to General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation Regarding the Khachaturian Sisters Case

July 28, 2020

Equality Now wrote to the General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation in July 2020 in relation to the investigation into the...