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This study, undertaken with support from UNICEF, was designed to assess child marriage rates at the district level throughout India and to determine if there are patterns that can provide further insights into scaling up successful prevention…

This brief analyses the implementation of Mexico’s law on domestic violence and sets out recommendations on how to improve implementation.

The report is based on 63 verified and suspected trafficking cases that occurred primarily during 2000-2004. The cases involve 85 women and girls, mostly between the ages of 14 and 20. Testimony comes primarily from women and girls who escaped after…

Report from a 2016 event that sought to encourage a multi-sectoral approach to ending female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) by bringing together subject matter experts from across sectors and continents.

In this report, seven masculinity researchers write about masculinity in different parts of the world and about how masculinity is often linked to violence. These acts of violence are committed not only against women and children, but also against…

Violence against women and girls is a mass phenomenon taking many different forms with disastrous consequences for women's and girl's health and survival. The social and economic costs resulting from this abuse place a substantial burden on society…

Explores how unequal gender norms uphold this practice and through program examples identifies the ways men and boys are helping to prevent child marriage and mitigate its consequences.

Equality Now has been using the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world since 1992. Equality Now advocates locally, nationally and internationally to advance Legal Equality and Justice for Girls, and to End Sex…

Provides crisis counselling and legal, medical and other practical support services for women and children who are sufferers and survivors of violence committed against them by men.

An art activist effort to upset the dominant culture of rape, and promote a counter-culture of consent.