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 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.
Families are often understood as spaces of care, belonging, and continuity. Yet they are also where individuals first encounter authority — where roles are defined, expectations are shaped, and inequalities can take root early in life.
The paper examines how discriminatory family laws continue to shape women’s and girls’ access to fundamental rights, including property ownership, inheritance, marriage and divorce rights, child custody, and economic participation.
