Understanding how anti-gender actors impact negotiations, the adoption and implementation of treaties, alliance building, and polarisation within multilateral structures is crucial – not only to counter anti-gender actors but also to preserve and improve our multilateral order, which is vital for human rights across the world, in particular of persons subject to (intersecting) forms of discrimination and marginalisation.
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Working further to defend and concretely advance the rights of women and LGBTQI* people in the European Union, our current project, financially supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, works on strengthening civil society capacities through enabling cross-sectoral cooperation, peer learning, strategy and narrative development, as well as in-depth advocacy between civil society and policymakers/political influence holders at both the EU level and in 6 European regions.
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Across the world, there is an active civil society as well as progressive governments that campaign for the rights of women, those of the LGBTQI* community, against racism, as well as right-wing and nationalist populism. Unfortunately, these actors are far from being as well connected and funded as the anti-gender movements. This CFFP project worked to fill this gap.
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In early 2020, CFFP began engaging with the question of the transnational anti-gender movement, and conducted extensive desk research, interviews with activists and academics, and expert roundtables in order to develop a broad understanding on what we are dealing with and what we can do to counter the anti-gender campaigns.
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We spoke to feminist activists, policy experts, and scholars from different regions, ranging from Eastern Europe to Latin America, South East Asia and more. With the help of our interviewees’ experiences and knowledge, we try to better understand the connection between the rise of populist authoritarian leaders and anti-feminism globally
Learn MoreAnti-gender campaigns and actors are much better funded than human rights and equality advocates. At the same time, key state services and civil society organisations are being actively defunded or…
What is the transnational anti-gender movement? Who are the actors? How do they operate? What can we do about it? CFFP, financially supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and…
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