Behind every discriminatory law is a real story: a woman unable to confer citizenship to her child, a girl married off, a survivor denied justice in court.
These aren’t isolated incidents, they’re systemic failures rooted in law.
Since 1999, we’ve highlighted examples of sex-discriminatory laws in our Words and Deeds report series.
All governments must review and amend their sex discriminatory laws and put in place clear constitutional or other guarantees of equality, as a matter of urgency, to protect all women’s and girls’ civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights under the Beijing Platform for Action and other international law, standards, and commitments.
Governments have the responsibility to end sex and gender-based discrimination in the law. To truly add equality to improve the lives of women and girls globally, every sector has a meaningful role to play.
