Ending Sexual Violence Starts with the Law.
This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, stand with Equality Now to demand justice, challenge harmful systems, and ensure safety, accountability, and consent for all. Ending sexual violence requires bold laws, collective action, and unwavering support for survivors. Learn how you can be part of the solution.
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At Equality Now, we believe in creating a just world for women and girls. Since 1992, our international network of lawyers, activists and supporters have tackled the most difficult issues, challenged ingrained cultural assumptions and called out inequality wherever we see it.
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In 2023, we helped to change 14 laws in 12 countries, spanning 4 continents
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In 2023, our contributions to changing laws improved access to justice for 39.2 million women and girls worldwide
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None of us can afford to sit back and wait for equality to arrive – we need to act now.
With the power of your support, we can challenge injustice; we can stand against sexual violence; we can protect and advance hard-won rights, and we can amplify the voices of survivors – so every girl can enjoy the safety, choice, and respect she deserves.
EXPLORE OUR WORK
Achieve Legal Equality
A lack of legal equality promotes violence and discrimination, yet almost every country in the world has laws that treat people differently on the basis of sex and/or gender.
End Sexual Exploitation
Sexual exploitation, a form of sexual abuse, is when someone abuses or attempts to abuse another person’s vulnerability or their own position of power or trust for sexual purposes.
End Sexual Violence
Sexual violence is a human rights violation that predominantly affects women and girls as a consequence of systemic and structural inequality.
End Harmful Practices
The term 'harmful practices' covers forms of violence or ritual discrimination, primarily committed against girls and women, that have become culturally normalized.
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Join Equality Now's international network of changemakers, from government ministers and UN bodies to civil society and human rights lawyers, to learn from one another and drive forward the vital work to make gender equality a reality.
Latest News and Insights
When the Headlines Fade: How Impunity Fuels the Sexual Violence Epidemic
April 17, 2025
High-profile trials and mass human rights violations should not be the basis upon which the world decides to lend focus to the sexual violence epidemic. And yet, those events appear to be the only time ...
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Harvey Weinstein’s Retrial: 5 Things To Know
April 15, 2025
Today, jury selection begins in the retrial of Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood producer and previously convicted sex offender, who once again faces multiple allegations of sexual assault. We’re following the ...
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Why Consent Must Be at the Heart of International Legal Standards
April 14, 2025
Sexual violence is a global crisis, but how the law defines and prosecutes it still varies widely. At the center of this legal inconsistency is one essential principle: consent. International human rights standards ...
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None of us can afford to sit back and wait for equality to arrive – we need to act now.
With the power of your support, we can challenge injustice; we can stand against sexual violence; we can protect and advance hard-won rights, and we can amplify the voices of survivors – so every girl can enjoy the safety, choice, and respect she deserves.
Our Resource Center
Explore in-depth resources on women’s rights issues, including sexual violence, sexual exploitation, harmful practices, and legal discrimination from our expert network of lawyers and activists.
Beijing +30: Holding governments accountable for ending discrimination in law
07 October 2022
The 4th UN Conference on Women in 1995 was the birth of The Beijing Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint ever ...
The Time is Now: End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, An Urgent Need for Global Response 2025
25 February 2025
Released in February 2025, The Time is Now: End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, An Urgent Need for Global Response 2025 is...
Breaking Barriers: Addressing Child, Early and Forced Marriage in Eurasia
10 October 2024
This report examines child, early, and forced marriages (CEFM) in seven Eurasian countries—Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ky...
Listen to our podcast We Change the Rules
A bold, six-part audio series, hosted by Samira Ahmed, exploring the history and global impact of legal inequality on women and girls. We Change the Rules is essential listening for anyone interested in achieving legal, political, and systematic gender equality everywhere.