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Africa · New YorkNew York -- Around a quarter of countries still have nationality laws that deny women the same rights as men to acquire, retain, or change their citizenship, or to pass citizenship onto their children or foreign spouses.See the Story
Africa: Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws Are Fueling Poverty & Violence Against Women
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United NationsDiscriminatory laws and the absence of legal protections impact more than 2.5 billion women and girls worldwide in various ways. Legal reform is paramount to securing gender equality, and the world cannot afford to roll back on decades of progress in women’s rights. On the sidelines of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development […]See the Story
Protect Women's Rights, Especially in a Time of Equality Backlash
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United Nations · Iran28th July 2025
Gender Justice in Iran: UN UPR adopts our key recommendations, but FGM is still ignored
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Achieve legal equality Iran
In its recent review of the human rights situation in Iran, several United Nations Member States gave bold and necessary recommendations to the government of Iran, many of which directly align with Equality Now’s submission to the 48th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Why the Universal P…Read Article