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Personal to Powerful: Holding the line for gender justice in the face of growing anti-rights movements

by Oxfam International

Published | 2025

Addressing anti-rights groups

Summary

The "Personal to Powerful" report examines how systemic inequality and rising anti-rights movements threaten gender justice, undermining commitments made in the Beijing Declaration. It highlights the urgent need to counteract these forces to protect bodily autonomy and LGBTQIA+ rights.

Why read

Civic space actors should read this report to understand how conservative movements exploit crises to roll back rights and to develop strategies for resisting these threats.

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The report offers an in-depth examination of the unfulfilled promises of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) three decades after its inception. It scrutinizes how an inherently unequal economic system, coupled with the strategic actions of right-wing, religious, and conservative groups, has led to the reinforcement of patriarchal and profit-driven structures that marginalize women and LGBTQIA+ communities. These groups have adeptly leveraged ongoing global crises to promote ‘traditional’ family values, thereby undermining advancements in bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health rights. The report underscores the urgency for world leaders to recognize and resist the mainstreaming of anti-rights agendas, which jeopardize the significant progress achieved by feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements. It serves as a clarion call for renewed commitment to gender justice, emphasizing the need to confront and dismantle the systemic inequities that perpetuate discrimination and hinder the realization of universal human rights

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