Since 1992, Equality Now has been working to use the power of the law to create a world where women and girls have the same rights as men and boys, with a successful track record of campaigning and litigating globally on issues critical to equality for women and girls. Honored to be a long-standing Equality Now partner, WORLD has provided data to support Equality Now’s efforts to campaign to extend paternity leave in Ireland, participated in an amicus brief on the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States, and contributed data to Equality Now’s reports on rape laws around the world and holding governments accountable in the Beijing +25 review process. We have also co-hosted meetings with leaders around the world on issues critical to the rights of women and girls globally.
Some examples of WORLD’s data and partnership with Equality Now:
- WORLD’s data on whether paid leave is available for fathers of infants identified Ireland as an outlier country with weaker paternity leave provisions than comparator countries; Equality Now then embarked on a successful campaign to extend paternity leave in Ireland
- The 2020 amicus brief powerfully makes the argument that the United States’ failure to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment:
- Makes the U.S. a global outlier, in that the vast majority of countries worldwide already protect gender equality in their constitutions
- Violates the U.S.’s obligations under international law, and
- Threatens women’s equal rights and opportunities and undermines efforts by individual U.S. states to realize gender equality.
Drawing extensively on WORLD’s data and analysis, the brief details the prevalence of equal rights protections worldwide, illustrates the difference they have made across countries, and explores their potential to have impact in the United States.
WORLD’s analysis of rape laws around the world for an Equality Now report helped to identify gaps in legal protections and areas for advocacy:
WORLD and Equality Now have also collaborated on a series of regional knowledge sharing workshops bringing together the Solidarity of African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) coalition to advance equality and women’s rights in Africa. Leaders and advocates from across the continent seen below in Nairobi, Kenya in 2018.
