What We Do
The equality effect develops creative legal solutions to address the inequality of women and girls in Africa who are subject to some of the most appalling human rights abuses in the world today (the equality effect currently works in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi). By using the law in imaginative and original ways, the equality effect achieves concrete change that can result in increased freedom from violence, improved health, and increased prosperity for women and girls. Read more...
Who We Are
The equality effect, formerly known as the African and Canadian Women's Human Rights Project (ACWHRP), is an international network of human rights advocates (including grass roots community members, artists, musicians, film makers, health care workers, journalists, lawyers, teachers, students, judges and Parliamentarians) working together to improve the lives of women and girls by using existing human rights law to achieve concrete change, and the meaningful empowerment of women and girls. We are human rights advocates, primarily but not exclusively from Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, that work collaboratively to learn from common experiences, to transform the sexist legal legacy inherited through the experience of colonialism, to achieve justice for women and girls. Read more....
