Equality Now Celebrates 20 Years!

Equality Now celebrates 20 years of working to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world.

Discrimination in Law

AFGHANISTAN: Women in public life are targeted and murdered.

Cmdr Malalai Kakar, Afghanistan's most senior police woman, shot dead outside her home.

Sexual Violence

ZAMBIA Rape of schoolgirls by their teachers is rampant. Thirty-three cases of such rapes are reported per week by the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka.

Girls in Zambia.

Trafficking

INDIA Dalit and minority women and girls are disproportionately sold and exploited in the commercial sex trade.

Meena, a survivor of prostitution.

Female Genital Mutilation

SOMALIA 98% of women and girls are subjected to female genital mutilation. 6,000 girls across Africa are at risk of FGM daily.

Somali girls in a classroom.

Current Actions

Gloria Steinem Board member Gloria Steinem reflects on her years of involvement with Equality Now.
Joss Whedon "I'm tired of being polite about something that matters so much....next year: more, louder, crazier." Listen to Joss Whedon's inspirational call to action on behalf of Equality Now, filmed...