Page 2 Ending Sex Discrimination in the Law EQUALITY NOW – BEIJING+25 ABOUT EQUALITY NOW Founded in 1992, Equality Now is an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of all women and girls around the world. Our campaigns are centered on four program areas: Legal Equality, End Sexual Violence, End Harmful Practices, and End Sex Trafficking, with a cross-cutting focus on the unique needs of adolescent girls. Equality Now combines grassroots activism with international, regional and national legal advocacy to achieve legal and systemic change to benefit all women and girls, and works to ensure that governments enact and enforce laws and policies that uphold their rights. Equality Now has offices in New York, Nairobi, London and Beirut, presences in Amman, Jordan, Washington, DC, New Delhi, India, Tbilisi, Georgia and partners and members in almost every country in the world. For more information on our latest campaigns go to www.equalitynow.org. facebook.com/equalitynoworg @equalitynow @equalitynoworg ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report was made possible by the collective effort of a talented team of many individuals and organizations around the world. Equality Now would especially like to thank: Research: Alyssa Oravec, Harvard Law School Public Service Venture Fund Legal Fellow; Caroline Lagat, Legal Fellow; and Florence Wilkinson and Liam Doyle, Interns, in addition to Equality Now staff and consultants worldwide, as well as the organizations and individuals listed at the end of this report. Designers: Peter Wilbourne, Martin Humphreys Translators: Arabic: Nadia Al-Sharif, French: Thomas Forycki, Spanish: Carmen Maestro Photographers: Tara Carey, FG Trade, fotografixx, GCShutter, Ben Ibrahim, jacoblund, Aleksandar Nakic, Leo Patrizi, Francesco Ridolfi, Vardhan January 2020