1. Personal to Powerful: Holding the line for gender justice in the face of growing anti-rights movements
- Author:
- Lata Narayanaswamy and Amina Hersi
- Publication Date:
- 03-2025
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Oxfam Publishing
- Abstract:
- Thirty years on from the commitments enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) this briefing reveals a picture of broken promises and unfulfilled ambition by States. This failure is not just due to a lack of political will, but also an economic system that is unequal by design. As world leaders prepare to review their commitments to the BPfA, they must reject the mainstreaming of anti-rights actors and their co-optation of human rights language as this risks violating universal human rights and eroding the hard-won gains of feminist and LGBTQIA+ activists and movements, ultimately breaking the social contract between the state and people.
- Topic:
- Women, Feminism, Decolonization, Care work, Gender Justice, and Bodily Autonomy
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus