Paleki Ayang

Paleki Ayang

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Paleki Ayang is a Program Officer at Equality Now implementing programs in the Middle East and North Africa, mostly on family law. She also works on advocacy around ending FGM, sexual and gender-based violence and political participation in Palestine, Egypt and Sudan.

In marriages across MENA, consent is fictional and rape is legal

Laws across the MENA still fail to criminalise marital rape, undermining any notion of consent & often silencing survivors, writes Paleki Ayang.

01 December, 2025

MENA leaders are failing to protect women and girls from FGM

Female genital mutilation is an all too common practice across MENA, where a lack of legal protections and publicly available data means that survivors have no access to support or justice, writes Paleki Ayang.

20 April, 2022