Non-profit organizations, such as Global Rights for Women, play a crucial role in the fight against femicide and gender-based violence. Global Rights for Women works with leaders around the world to advance women's and girls' human right to live free from violence through legal reform and institutional and social change. They advocate for international legal instruments, such as a new Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), to create legally binding obligations on states to address gender-based violence globally.