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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...