Why the UK must take a bold stance against global attacks on women’s rights

Gender and Development NetworkAid, Gender, Rights

Amid a worldwide backlash against women’s rights, and after its own aid cuts that further threaten those rights, it has never been more urgent for the UK government to speak up loudly for global gender equality, says the Gender and Development Network.

The era of anti-rights: what can you do about it?

Kelly MundyActive citizenship, Gender, Rights

With movements to roll back gender rights on the rise around the world, Kelly Mundy and Rachel Noble explain why the fight to protect them is more important than ever and set out three things we can do to support them.

Why we can’t talk about one without the other: Sexual and reproductive rights and women’s economic empowerment

Preethi SundaramGender, Her Series, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women's Economic Empowerment

So far in our Her Series we’ve touched on various issues from the effects of unpaid care to gender equality and global institutions. Now, Preethi Sundaram from International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), shares with us her thoughts on the links between sexual and reproductive rights and women’s economic empowerment. he sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and …