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| Oct 1, 2026 | Trump formally accepts defeat in $5 million E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse lawsuit | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Marking a novel development in his years-long legal battle with E. Jean Carroll, President Trump formally accepted defeat on Tuesday, withdrawing a failed effort to claw back some $5 million from t... |
| Sep 30, 2026 | California finally passes law banning child marriage | Photo credit: Unchained At Last, Beth Heiserman, Zonta Club of West Los Angeles Chain, Sacramento, California, 2022
Photo credit: Unchained At Last
Child marriage survivors and campaigners celebrate California's new law setting 18 as the mi... |
| Sep 30, 2026 | California, en Estados Unidos, prohíbe finalmente el matrimonio infantil | Crédito de la foto: Unchained At Last, Beth Heiserman, Zonta Club of West Los Angeles Chain, Sacramento, California, 2022
Crédito de la foto: Unchained At Last
Después de años de reveses legislativos, California ha elevado a 18 años la edad... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Kenya’s Parliament urged to pass landmark bill to address discrimination against widows | Photo credit - Come Together Widows and Orphans Organization (CTWOO)
On International Widows' Day, Equality Now and CTWOO call on Kenyan MPs to pass a comprehensive new Bill to protect widowed persons from eviction and abuse.
Culture is not... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Colombia aprueba una ley histórica para poner fin a la mutilación genital femenina | Votación del proyecto de ley para erradicar la MGF en Colombia. Crédito: Camila Morales, Equality Now
Colombia se convierte en el primer país de América Latina en prohibir la mutilación genital femenina, gracias al liderazgo de mujeres indí... |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Colombia passes landmark bill to end female genital mutilation | Juliana Domicó, Councillor of the Confederation of the Peoples of the Great Emberá Nation. Photo credit Equality Now
Leandra Becerra, Legal and Advocacy Advisor for Equality Now, at Colombia's House of Representatives. Photo credit Equality... |
| May 20, 2026 | Conflicting child marriage laws leave girls unprotected in South Asia, report warns | Photo credit - Equality Now, Aakansha Saxena
New Equality Now report reveals how contradictory laws, legal loopholes, and weak enforcement put girls at heightened risk of child marriage in South Asia.
Equal protection under the law is essen... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Rape survivors in Pakistan struggle to access justice despite legal reforms, new report finds | Photo credit: Equality Now, Fareeha Ali Yahya
Strengthening implementation, evidence gathering and support services can help Pakistan turn legal reforms into effective justice for sexual violence survivors.
Gaps in laws that leave women and... |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Connecticut lawmakers pass landmark bill to ban female genital mutilation | Press conference at the State Capitol, Hartford, CT, held in support of passing Senate Bill 259, April 27, 2026
State Capital in Hartford, CT
Bill 257 strengthens protections against FGM/C in Connecticut and leaves eight remaining U.S. stat... |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Connecticut lawmakers consider bill to ban female genital mutilation/ cutting | Anastasia Law, Equality Now, at the Connecticut public hearing to consider Senate Bill 259, March 2, 2026
Connecticut legislature reviews Bill 259 to criminalize FGM/C and expand state protections for girls in the largest unprotected at-ris... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Equality Now announces new board members to advance legal equality for women and girls | Spanning the US, Africa, and UK boards, the appointments reinforce Equality Now's international governance and worldwide reach. NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, February 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Equality Now, a global human rights organiz... |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Legal systems in Arab League countries failing rape survivors, Equality Now analysis finds | Map of rape laws in Country Members of the League of Arab States
Discriminatory laws and poor enforcement foster victim-blaming and harmful stereotypes, enabling impunity for perpetrators in League of Arab States countries.
Various forms of... |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Equality Now calls for urgent action as backlash against women’s rights intensifies | S.Mona Sinha, Equality Now Global Executive Director, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Photographer - Joel Sheakoski
Deborah Nyokabi, Equality Now legal expert, at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) 85th Ordinary S... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | African States urged to strengthen women’s rights protections amid rising anti-gender pushback | Deborah Nyokabi presenting Equality Now's statement at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) 85th Ordinary Session
Equality Now warns that women’s rights in Africa are under threat and urges states to act on sexual vio... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Bolivia Passes Bill To End Child Marriage, Raising the Age of Marriage to 18 Without Exceptions | Approving the law that prohibits child marriage is a historic victory for the rights of girls and adolescents in Bolivia.”
— Mónica Bayá, Legal AdvisorBOLIVIA, September 18, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Bolivia has become the latest country i... |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Experts urge Congress to reject bill that incorrectly conflates FGM and gender-affirming care | Medical, legal, and human rights experts warn that bill H.R. 3492 misuses FGM legislation, restricts access to necessary healthcare for transgender youth, and diverts focus from actual FGM cases.”
— Equality NowNEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, ... |
| Aug 8, 2025 | New bill to ban gender-affirming care raises concerns for both trans youth and FGM survivors, experts warn | Lawmakers urged to oppose bill H.R. 3492, which conflates female genital mutilation with gender-affirming care, putting FGM survivors and trans youth at risk.
Gender-affirming care and FGM are not the same in any sense. Conflating them jeop... |
| Aug 4, 2025 | Equality Now highlights how the Equal Rights Amendment can help safeguard LGBTQ+ rights and same-sex marriage | The historic legal victory that recognized love and equal access to marriage under the law in the US is under threat. A federal ERA could help protect it.
Once universally recognized and implemented, the ERA could provide a strong legal fou... |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Lanzamos JUSTAS, el camino de las sobrevivientes: el videopodcast de Equality Now y la Fundación Thelma Fardin | Tamara Rusansky (Equality Now), Clara Ferrer (productora), Sofia Quiroga (Equality Now), Thelma Fardin (Fundación Thelma Fardin), Mónica Bayá (Equality Now)
Victoria Marichal (sobreviviente y activista, integrante del Movimiento Valientes L... |
| Jun 20, 2025 | JUSTAS: The Journey of Survivors – A New Video Podcast by Equality Now and the Thelma Fardin Foundation | Tamara Rusansky (Equality Now), Clara Ferrer (Producer), Sofia Quiroga (Equality Now), Thelma Fardin (Thelma Fardin Foundation), Mónica Bayá (Equality Now)
Victoria Marichal (survivor and activist, member of the Valientes LAC Movement); Emi... |
| May 1, 2025 | Legal aid in South Asia is failing to reach survivors of sexual violence | DHAKA, BANGLADESH – Media OutReach Newswire – 2 May 2025 – Across South Asia, alarmingly high rates of sexual violence stand in stark contrast to extremely low conviction rates. Survivors encounter overwhelming barriers to justice—including... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Bolivia takes important step towards ending child marriage | Bolivia National Senate
In a move to end child marriage, Bolivia's National Senate has approved a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage to 18, without exceptions.
We will continue to support this process and advocate for final approval ... |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Llamado urgente a actualizar la legislación en materia de violencia sexual en América Latina y el Caribe | BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, April 11, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- En América Latina y el Caribe, la violencia sexual sigue siendo una de las formas más generalizadas de desigualdad de género, con marcos legales desactualizados y discriminatorios que n... |
| Apr 11, 2025 | Urgent Call to Reform Outdated Sexual Violence Laws in Latin America and the Caribbean | Outdated sexual violence laws in Latin America and the Caribbean are failing survivors. A new guide urges consent-based reforms to strengthen legal protections. BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, April 11, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Across Latin America and... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | New Hampshire bill seeks exemption to law banning child marriage | Photo credit: Equality Now
If passed into law, New Hampshire's Bill H.B. 433 would allow an adult of any age who is on active duty in the military to legally marry a 17-year-old.
Progress should not be this easy to dismantle. Girls in New H... |
| Feb 26, 2025 | Nuevo informe revela que la mutilación genital femenina está presente en 94 países | NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, February 26, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Un nuevo informe ha recopilado evidencias de mutilación genital femenina (MGF) también conocida como ablación o corte genital femenino en 94 países, revelando cómo esta pr... |
| Feb 26, 2025 | New report finds female genital mutilation/ cutting in 94 countries | Efforts to end FGM/C remain hindered by reluctance from governments to act, particularly in countries not widely associated with this harmful practice.
Millions of individuals around the world live with the lifelong consequences of FGM/C. T... |
| Feb 4, 2025 | Connecticut lawmakers consider new bill to ban female genital mutilation/ cutting | U.S. End FGM/C Network and Equality Now - every US state needs a comprehensive law against female genital mutilation and cutting
Connecticut is one of only nine states without a ban on female genital mutilation/ cutting. Connecticut lawmake... |
| Jan 17, 2025 | President Biden Declares the Equal Rights Amendment is the 'Law of the Land' | National Archives Building, January 15, 2025, Photo credit - Equality Now, Bell Visuals
By S. Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director, Equality Now
Let us work toward a United States that is a true symbol of equality, justice, and human digni... |
| Nov 28, 2024 | Research reveals legal loopholes and victim-blaming enable sexual violence to go unpunished in Africa | Equality Now's new report reveals how flawed laws, weak implementation, and victim-blaming are preventing rape survivors from accessing justice in Africa.
To end impunity for perpetrators, African governments urgently need to carry out comp... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Ben Stiller’s daughter Ella gives him a lesson on women's equality | Ben Stiller and daughter Ella Stiller on stage at Equality Now's Make Equality Reality gala. Photo credit: Equality Now
Ben Stiller and daughter Ella Stiller. Photo credit: Equality Now
Mona Sinha, Ella Stiller, Ben Stiller, Beverley Knight... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Discrimination, poverty, and weak legal protection fuel child & forced marriage in Eurasia | Early marriage in Eurasia. Photographer: Daro Sulakauri
Photographer: Daro Sulakauri
Child marriage rates in Eurasian countries
Gaps in laws, weak legal enforcement, and cultural acceptance drive bride kidnapping and child and forced marria... |
| Oct 8, 2024 | Colombia's Senate to vote on landmark bill to end child marriage | By Sandra Ramirez, Legal and Advocacy Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at Equality Now
Analysis by Equality Now of Colombia’s legal standards has identified a lack of adequate safeguards to prevent parents from forcing or coercin... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Gender pay gap in the U.S. widens for the first time in 20 years | Photo credit: ERA Coalition
Women’s lost earnings due to pay inequality amounts to $1.7 trillion in 2023. How will the next administration address this stark gender inequality?
The absence of constitutional safeguards means that women in th... |
| Jul 4, 2024 | The Unfulfilled Promise of Equal Rights for Women and Girls in the U.S. | ERA Centennial Convention Seneca Falls, New York, July 22, 2023, Photo credit - Equality Now
From awareness to action - the role of journalists in advancing the Equal Rights Amendment to protect the human rights of women and girls in the Un... |
| May 15, 2024 | Women and girls in Africa face widespread discrimination in family laws | Photo credit: Equality Now, Tara Carey
Research by Equality Now finds reform of discriminatory family law in Africa has been slow, inconsistent and hampered by weak political will and implementation.
Discriminatory family laws in Africa cur... |
| May 13, 2024 | Kazakhstan ex-minister found guilty of wife’s murder, case prompts reckoning on domestic violence | Recent law reforms in Kazakhstan to strengthen protections against domestic violence are welcome but still do not go far enough, and major legal gaps remain.
Everyone has been waiting for better laws for a long time, but what we have now ca... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Sexual violence in the metaverse has real-world impact on victims | Female-presenting avatars are far more likely to experience sexual violence, and victims' responses mirror reactions to sexual offences in the physical world.
There is a tendency towards trivialization and victim-blaming, where victims are ... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | Why Women's Rights Are Vulnerable in America | ERA Centennial Convention Seneca Falls, New York, July 22, 2023. Photo credit - Equality Now
Equal Rights Activists gather during an ERA rally outside of the Supreme Court
By Shivangi Misra, Global Legal Advisor at Equality Now
The absence ... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Lack of legal protections against doxing is putting women at greater risk of online stalking and harassment | National and international laws do not adequately protect against doxing, making it hard to combat and penalize abuse, finds research by AUDRi and Equality Now.
Doxing poisons the entire digital ecosystem. A lack of legal frameworks to prot... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Mujeres y niñas enfrentan mayor riesgo de violencia sexual debido a leyes frágiles y presupuesto insuficiente en México | Representantes de ALIDAS en la ONU en Ginebra, donde participaron en la sesión previa al EPU de México el 29 de noviembre de 2023, para compartir su evaluación y recomendaciones.
ONGs expresan preocupación ante la ONU por leyes de violencia... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Weak legal protections and inadequate funding put women and girls in Mexico at greater risk of sexual violence | Representatives of ALIDAS at the UN in Geneva, where they spoke at Mexico's UPR pre-session on November 29, 2023, to share ALIDAD’s assessment and recommendations
Women’s rights groups raise concerns with the UN Human Rights Council over Me... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Illegal to marry below 18 - Zambia passes the landmark Marriage (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Prolonged droughts are fueling child marriage in Kenya
Zambia passes landmark legislation setting the marriageable age at 18, without exception, in a major shift in the nation’s commitment to ending child marriage.
The legislation directly ... |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Women and girls with disabilities experience higher rates of sexual violence and greater obstacles to accessing justice | Credit: Equality Now, Tatiana Zelenskaya
Governments must strengthen legal protections and ensure better access to support and justice for women and girls subjected to sexual and gender-based violence.
In most cases, women with disabilities... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Stalling at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence - the time to act is now | By S. Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director at Equality Now, and Ivana Bartoletti, Co-Founder of the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights
We cannot afford a passive approach as the technology that shapes our world advances at a breakneck p... |
| May 4, 2023 | Call for governments to repeal personal status laws that discriminate against women | Personal status laws encompass legal regulations that govern the rights of all women and men in family matters
Equality Now logo
Sex-discriminatory personal status laws are limiting women's rights to travel freely, participate in public lif... |
| Apr 27, 2023 | Senate Vote on Resolution to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment Fails | Equal Rights Activists gather during an ERA rally outside of the Supreme Court
Following the Senate vote, a motion to reconsider was introduced, which could lead to a second vote.
The ERA is not dead and should be recognized as the 28th ame... |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Washington State introduces new law to protect women and girls from female genital mutilation or cutting | Members of the Washington Coalition to End FGM/C stand together to call for effective legislation prohibiting FGM/C
The new law was drafted with input from survivors of FGM/C and takes a progressive approach to community education and accou... |
| Mar 23, 2023 | ChatGPT-4 reinforces sexist stereotypes by stating a girl cannot “handle technicalities and numbers” in engineering | ChatGPT-4 reinforces sexist stereotypes in story about a boy selecting engineering, while a girl prefers fine arts
Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi)
Leading AI policy and human rights experts invite OpenAI’s Chief Exec Sam Altma... |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Sexual violence laws in Eurasia enable impunity for perpetrators | Failures to adequately criminalize and prosecute rape is enabling perpetrators to avoid punishment
Equality Now logo
Comprehensive legal reform of sexual violence laws and policies is urgently needed in Eurasian countries to stop perpetrato... |
| Oct 2, 2021 | A year on, India Dalit rape victim’s family waits for justice | Hathras, India – The gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh last September had caused a public outcry and weeks of protests.
But a year on, the family of the victim has told ... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | How You Can Help Equality Now Raise Awareness And Funds For Human Rights | LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 06: Equality Now Global Executive Director Yasmeen Hassan speaks onstage ... [+] during "Hope Lives in Every Name," A Celebration with Equality Now and Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale", hosted by Heath... |
| Jul 22, 2020 | The Covid-19 Pandemic Has Escalated Domestic Violence Worldwide | Women wearing protective face masks seen during a demonstration organized by We Will Stop Femicide ... [+] Platform in Istanbul, Turkey on July 19, 2020. They requested the Istanbul Convention (Convention on preventing and combating violenc... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Missing: The Complete Saga puts spotlight on child sex trafficking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Missing: The Complete Saga is in the final days of its Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a different kind of game. It’s about the... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Missing: The Complete Saga puts spotlight on child sex trafficking | Missing: The Complete Saga is in the final days of its Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a different kind of game. It’s about the experience of being a victim of child sex trafficking, something that happens every 26 seconds around th... |
| Nov 22, 2012 | Saudi Arabia now tracking women electronically, notifying husbands by text | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
UPDATED — A local journalist clarifies that this system is operational for all dependents (children, women, and foreign workers) and th... |
| Nov 22, 2012 | Saudi Arabia now tracking women electronically, notifying husbands by text | UPDATED — A local journalist clarifies that this system is operational for all dependents (children, women, and foreign workers) and that it has been up and running for some time. The difference is that previously, men had to register for i... |
| Malaysian mothers fight country’s unequal citizenship laws | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – After a decade in the United States, Aniza Ismail returned to Malaysia in 2009 with her two daughters. Recently separated from the girls’ Indonesian father, the 50-year-old wanted to bring them closer to her extende... |
| Malaysia court overturns landmark citizenship ruling for women | Malaysia’s appeal court has overturned a landmark decision that women should be able to pass on their citizenship to children born overseas in the same way as Malaysian men.
In a 2-1 decision, the judges sided with the government and reject... |
