On 26 August, we mark Women’s Equality Day – a moment to reflect on over a century of progress since the 19th Amendment granted some women in the United States the right to vote in 1920, while also ...
How closely do national laws across Africa reflect the sexual and reproductive health rights guaranteed under the Maputo Protocol? This report examines legal and policy frameworks in eight countries: ...
Navi Pillay grew up under laws designed to deny her equality. Born into a Tamil family in apartheid South Africa, she knew that injustice could be written into a statute and defended from a judge’s ...
Comprehensive laws that go beyond setting a minimum age of marriage are critical to ending child marriage. Developed jointly by Equality Now and the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage ...
The state of gender equality at UNGA 2026 and what has changed since last year Observing the world during the UN General Assembly (UNGA) 2026, one could be forgiven for having a pessimistic outlook: ...
After years of legislative setbacks, survivors and campaigners celebrate California setting the legal age of marriage at 18 years old without exception. The victory is a milestone for girls’ rights ...
Around the world, hard-won gains for the rights of women and girls are facing increasingly coordinated backlash. Yet progress towards legal equality continues, demonstrating that regression is neither ...
The world has lost an extraordinary champion for equality, and Equality Now has lost a beloved friend, mentor and member of our global family. Gloria Steinem, the pioneering writer, feminist organiser ...
It requires States to eliminate discrimination against women and girls. The Protocol obligates State Parties to address discrimination in law, policy, institutions, and practice, including by ...
On 11 July 2003, the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: the Maputo Protocol. More than two decades later, the ...
Sexual violence continues to be surrounded by harmful myths that undermine survivors’ access to justice and reinforce impunity. This publication explains five of the most common misconceptions, ...
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