This report highlights the widespread impact of discriminatory laws on over 2.5 billion women and girls globally and emphasizes that legal reform, including the elimination of discriminatory laws, is crucial for achieving gender equality and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This booklet provides an overview of WLP's global campaign, Equality Starts in the Family, which focuses on changing the culturally determined roles and beliefs that perpetuate gender discrimination in the family, community, and society.
WLP launched Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence against Women: International Perspectives, on November 1, 2018 in conjunction with the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security (GIWPS). Leading women's rights advocates from around the globe provided remarks on the status of discriminatory family laws and structures that perpetuate inequality and violence both in the home and in communities. An expert panel led a discussion around these issues, highlighting effective strategies for reform.
