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Equality Now's Barbara Jiménez-Santiago gives insights on our report, which finds commendable gains have been achieved in advancing legal protections for women & girls but progress is slow, uneven & under mounting threat from backlash against #WomensRights
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📢 New Report: Governments are failing on legal equality.

The Beijing+30 edition of Words & Deeds exposes failures and demands action.

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#Beijing30 #GenderEquality #AddEquality #AddLegalEquality

📢 NEW REPORT – The Time is Now: End FGM/C 2025

Launched today with End FGM EU & The U.S. End FGM/C Network , this 5-year update provides the most comprehensive data since 2020.

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#TheTimeIsNow #EndFGM #Unite2EndFGM

One Year After Total Child Marriage Ban, New Hampshire Considers New Exceptions  - Equality Now A new child marriage bill in New Hampshire is drawing attention from lawmakers and activists across the United States. Last year, the New Hampshire Legislature passed a landmark law prohibiting child…

One year can make all the difference—minors, even at 17 years old, face obstacles filing lawsuits or accessing DV shelters. NH’s #HB433 would allow 17-year-olds to marry in a military context, undoing last year’s total #ChildMarriage ban. Learn more

President Biden’s historic announcement declaring the #EqualRightsAmendment the law of the land is a great advance in gender equality. Adding the #ERA to the US Constitution will give all women & girls constitutional protection against sex discrimination & a path to justice when rights are violated

We Welcome President Biden’s Declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution is the Law of the Land - Equality Now Today marks a historic milestone for gender equality, bringing justice for all women, girls, and people of other marginalized genders in the United States of America as President Biden takes decisive ...

BREAKING NEWS: Historic day for #GenderEquality! President Biden has taken decisive action on the Equal Rights Amendment affirming that the #ERA is part of the US Constitution and the law of the land. Read our full statement here equalitynow.org/news_and_ins...

Ohio Senate Democrats Urge President Biden to Certify the Equal Rights Amendment Today, the Ohio Senate Democratic Caucus sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to provide official notice to the Archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights…

🗞️ BREAKING: Ohio Senate Democrats Urge President Biden to Certify the Equal Rights Amendment

We're running out of time! ⏰ The Countdown is on: Joe has 12 days to #PublishEquality

Text Pres. Biden at 302-404-0880 & tell him to PUBLISH THE #ERA as the #28A

US Archivist’s Refusal to Publish the Equal Rights Amendment Contradicts Legal Authority and Public Will  - Equality Now On December 17, 2024, the Archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan, and Deputy Archivist, William J. Bosanko, issued a public statement refusing to publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA),…

#ICYMI The Federal Archivist CAN and SHOULD publish the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution. Read our full statement below. The time for #equality is now! #ERANow

"Deepfake sexual violations are global & multi-jurisdictional & demand a harmonized & coordinated response from the international community. The law has not kept pace with technological advancements & in many parts of the world, does not provide protection," Amanda Manyame, Equality Now #OnlineAbuse

UK Govt to make creating & sharing sexually explicit #deepfake images a criminal offense, explaining "the proliferation of these hyper-realistic images has grown at an alarming rate, causing devastating harm to victims, particularly women and girls who are often the target”
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5 Things You Should Know About Widows' Rights in the MENA Region - Equality Now Today, 23 June, is International Widows Day, a day to draw attention to the voices and experiences of widows and to galvanize the unique support that they need. According to the United Nations, there…

With the final days of 2024 upon us, we’re rounding up our most read articles. Read our piece on 5 things you should know about #WidowsRights in the #MENA region ➡️https://buff.ly/3ZB7f5n
#GenderEquality #WomensRights

The rise of deepfake image-based sexual abuse necessitates urgent and comprehensive responses from technological innovation, legal reform, and societal awareness    - Equality Now A new research brief, co-authored with AUDRi with support from law firm Hogan Lovells, Deepfake image-based sexual abuse, tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and the law provides a snapshot of the…

As we bid farewell to 2024, we’re spotlighting our most impactful articles. Read our piece on the rise of deepfake image-based sexual abuse ➡️https://buff.ly/3ZWu5px
#GenderEquality #WomensRights #DigitalRights

An Icon at 90: Gloria Steinem's Enduring Quest for Equality - Equality Now Equality Now is proud to celebrate the 90th birthday of the revered writer, political activist, and feminist organizer, Gloria Steinem.

In our most read articles from 2024 was our celebration of #GloriaSteinham as she turned 90. Read ➡️https://buff.ly/4gE51Jc
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This week, we’re revisiting favorite moments from 2024. First up: Member Day & Summit in Brooklyn. Over three days, our community connected, learned, and acted on issues facing women & girls. It was a true celebration of bold leadership and collective impact. More photos: https://buff.ly/49FrdPc

Equality Now Statement: Celebrating Historic Milestones for Women’s Leadership in Africa - Equality Now Equality Now warmly congratulates Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on her historic election as Namibia’s first woman President and Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang on becoming Ghana’s first female Vice President-elect...

We congratulate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on her election as Namibia’s 1st woman President & Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang on becoming Ghana’s 1st female Vice President-elect. These historic victories reaffirm the power & potential of women’s leadership at the highest levels
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Ensuring women have equal rights to inheritance and property is key to tackling climate change - Equality Now By Roya Rahmani, Former Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States and Global Strategist at Equality Now To mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change, we urgently need to eliminate disc...

To mitigate against #ClimateCrisis, we must eliminate discriminatory laws & cultural practices that curtail #WomensRights to inheritance & property. Preventing women from owning land & other assets makes them far more vulnerable to extreme weather & resource conflict
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Our Approach - Equality Now Using the law to change the world. Where women and girls are treated fairly, there is less societal conflict and more economic stability. By protecting

Through a unique mix of legal expertise, strategic advocacy, and global collaboration with diverse partners, @equalitynow.bsky.social generates legal and systemic change that addresses violence and discrimination against all women & girls globally
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7 ways sexual violence laws are failing survivors around the world  - Equality Now Despite global commitments to combat sexual violence, legal systems across various regions continue to fall short in protecting survivors and ensuring justice. Here are seven critical ways these laws ...

#EndSGBV @equalitynow.bsky.social identifies many ways legal systems stop rape survivors accessing justice, such as permitting rapists to avoid punishment by marrying their victims, allowing marital rape, & rape laws based on proof of force instead of lack of consent
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The Digital Media Environment in Indonesia: Online Gender-Based Violence - ABC International Development Digital Media Environment in Indonesia: Online Gender-Based Violence Study looks at the topic of online gender-based violence against journalists, particularly women, which has become a growing concer...

Digital Media Environment in Indonesia: Online #GenderBasedViolence Study found significant % of women journalists subjected to #OGBV such as private message harassment, abuse, surveillance & image-based abuse. Sexism, disbelief & victim-blaming stop women speaking out
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REFORM #rape laws: Weak laws are enabling rapists to evade justice in many African countries - eg in #Gabon, a man who rapes a child won't be sanctioned if he marries her!
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Insightful report by @equalitynow.bsky.social examines rape laws & enforcement in 47 African countries. Govts urgently need to implement comprehensive legal reform of rape laws, strengthen enforcement, & improve access to justice for survivors
#WomenRights #EndSGBV
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At Equality Now, our Theory of Change is built on four interconnected pathways: Legal, Advocacy, Collaboration, and Resourcing. These pathways guide our efforts to address violence and discrimination and advance justice for women and girls worldwide.
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Equality Now has been working to achieve legal and systemic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world since 1992. We use the law as a tool to build a more #GenderEqual world by holding governments responsible for their international obligations.

We can’t talk about the future of tech and digital space without talking about the impact on other issues and rights. Decision makers must take a holistic approach to development to ensure advancement does not come at the cost of human rights, and the climate.

Women are playing key roles in protests across South Asia. The backlash they face is often heavily gendered | CNN After the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a hospital and medical college in West Bengal in August, thousands of women across the Indian state took to the streets in protests to “Reclaim the Nig...

“Women have always been involved in protests in places like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan but the difference is that they’re taking on more leadership roles and are the primary actors.” www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/a...

Gaps in rape laws in Africa are enabling perpetrators to avoid punishment - Equality Now Nairobi, Kenya, November 27, 2024: Across Africa, rape is one of the most common crimes. New research reveals how inadequate criminalization of rape, weak legal implementation, rape myths, and victim-...

Equality Now’s new report reveals how flawed laws, weak legal implementation, victim-blaming, rape myths, & armed conflict are just some of the barriers stopping rape survivors accessing justice in Africa. Urgent legal reform is needed by African govts to #EndSGBV
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‘We need a cultural revolution’: femicide victim’s family seek change in Italy After Giulia Cecchettin was killed by her ex-boyfriend, her sister shook the national conscience when she challenged a ‘society steeped in rape culture’. She is still speaking out

Every 3 days, a woman is killed in #Italy by someone she knows. Families of femicide victims like #GiuliaCecchetin are calling for urgent cultural and systemic change. It's time to confront the roots of gender-based violence and demand justice. #Femicide #EndGBV

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