This is The Equal Rights Trust's Alternative Report to the 54th session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in in the absence of the First to Third Periodic Reports of Solomon Islands, submitted in January 2013. The report combines an analysis of the constitutional and legislative provisions on gender equality in the country with an examination of some of the major challenges faced by women, based on testimony collected by ERT and its partner in Solomon Islands.