Our Mission

The equality effect brings together leading human rights experts from Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, and the international context, to conduct ground-breaking legal work on women’s and girls’ human rights issues. The equality effect provides knowledge leadership and human rights education. The equality effect works to advance women’s and girls’ human rights, and promote their empowerment, through the development of equality research, strategic action plans, and the implementation of practical equality initiatives (e.g. public legal education, policy reform, judicial training, litigation, etc.) that will result in tangible change. The primary focus of the organization’s work relates to violence against women, the feminization of HIV/AIDS, and women’s property rights.