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Belarus – joint submission to UN Universal Periodic Review 36th Session May 2020 UPR Submission 2019

October 2, 2019

This submission is in reference to Equality Now’s Report: Roadblocks To Justice: How The Law Is Failing Survivors...

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Kazakhstan – joint submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 74th Session October 2019

October 2, 2019

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

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Kyrgyzstan – joint submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – November 2019

October 2, 2019

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

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Iraq – submission to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 74th Session October 2019

October 2, 2019

This submission expresses concerns about the continued sex-based discrimination against Iraqi women married to fore...

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Recommendations for Access to Justice for Sexual Violence in Georgia

September 25, 2019

In Georgia, sexual violence survivors are coming together to demand justice and calling upon the government not to treat perp...

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Kuwait – joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 35th Session January 2020

July 17, 2019

This submission deals with our concerns with regard to discrimination in Nationality Law No. 15 / 1959 and impunity for ...

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Kyrgyzstan – joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 35th Session – January 2020

July 17, 2019

This submission deals with our concerns with regard to definitions of sexual violence crimes enabling impunity for ...

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Armenia – joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 35th Session January 2020

July 17, 2019

This submission deals with our concerns with regard to definitions of sexual violence crimes enabling impunity for perpe...

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Equality Now recommendations to the UN High Level Political Forum 2019

July 16, 2019

The following are Equality Now’s input to the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development...

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Ending violence against women and girls to support the achievement of the SDGs – Equality Now remarks to Council of Europe 2019

June 21, 2019

The following comments were given by Equality Now’s Jacqui Hunt as part of the conference on Women’s R...

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UN OHCHR Child Rights and the SDGs Submission 2019

June 2, 2019

This was submitted in response to the Call for Input by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on child ri...

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United States – Joint submission to the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) 125th Session March 2019

June 2, 2019

The submission focuses on the need for equality of women to be explicitly enshrined in the U.S. Constitution; child marr...