30th June 2022

Declaration of the Youth Forum for the 4th LAC Regional Conference on Population and Development

This statement, signed by numerous youth organisations from around the LAC region, including Equality Now partner organisations BECA and Jovenas Latidas, calls on States to view the world from the perspective of children, adolescents, young people, and women in all their diversity, and to address the historic lack of recognition of the needs of these groups.

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This intersectional document highlights several marginalised groups, including indigenous, afro-descendant, people with disabilities, migrants, refugees, displaced people, sexually diverse people, and HIV-positive people, among others. The statement demands that States guarantee these groups the full exercise of their rights, and that they fulfill their international commitments, especially those in the Montevideo Consensus.

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Kenya Joint Shadow Report on the implementation of the Maputo Protocol

Submitted by Equality Now on behalf of 13 joint stakeholders, this shadow report assesses Kenya’s implementation of the Maputo Protocol and highlights urgent gaps in law, policy, and practice affecting women and girls. It calls on Kenya to strengthen protections against gender-based violence, advance reproductive rights, end discriminatory family law practices, improve access to justice, and protect marginalised women, including refugees, widows, older women, and women with disabilities.

Mauritius Joint CSO Shadow Report on the implementation of the Maputo Protocol

The Mauritius Joint CSO Shadow Report on the Implementation of the Maputo Protocol highlights the urgent need to strengthen protections for the rights of women and girls in Mauritius. The report documents persistent challenges, including gender-based violence, discrimination, barriers to justice and healthcare, and economic inequality, while calling for comprehensive legal and policy reforms aligned with the Maputo Protocol.

Submission Update to the Universal Periodic Review – United States of America 53rd Session of the UPR Working Group of the Human Rights Council

This update examines recent legal and political developments impacting women’s and girls’ rights in the United States, including the continued failure to guarantee constitutional sex equality, ongoing gaps in protections against child marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), growing concerns surrounding online sexual exploitation and abuse (OSEA), and the United States’ increasing disengagement from international human rights systems. It also highlights emerging legislative trends, survivor experiences, and the broader implications of weakened accountability and protection…

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