To mark the launch of our “Power over Rights: Understanding and countering the transnational anti-gender movement” study, the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, the German Federal Foreign Ministry and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland hosted a Digital Launch Event. We presented the main findings of our study and discussed what the anti-gender movement […]
In recent years attacks on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) - such as the Global Gag Rule and Poland’s abortion ban - have been growing on both sides of the Atlantic with the number of actors fighting to undo the international achievements for womens’ and sexual minority rights gaining further ground. Across the globe, […]
There is a lack of knowledge and awareness among policymakers and activists about what the anti-gender movement is, how it operates, the risks it poses and how to effectively develop strategies to counter it - in order to defend and advance human rights for all. In December 2021, CFFP hosted an online conference to situate […]
This invitation-only online expert roundtable discussed the impact of so-called anti-gender actors on multilateral fora: how they impact agenda-setting and negotiations, how issues of gender and LGBTQI* rights are instrumentalised, and what this means for the adoption and implementation of treaties, alliance-building, polarisation, and deadlock.
We were pleased to host the online launch event for our study “Disrupting the multilateral order? The impact of anti-gender actors on multilateral structures in Europe”. Through concrete policy recommendations, the study outlines a more consistent and strategic approach that Governments committed to advancing human rights for all can take to respond to the efforts […]