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.

From Personal to Powerful: in the face of growing attacks on rights, states must hold the line for gender justice  

Lata NarayanaswamyGender, In the news, Rights

Three decades after the landmark Beijing declaration to advance women’s rights, right-wing, religious, and conservative actors are reversing and obstructing hard-won progress. This International Women’s Day, our new Oxfam campaign calls on governments across the globe to reassert their commitment to gender justice, bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights, say Lata Narayanaswamy and Amina Hersi.

What would a feminist loss and damage fund look like?

Myrah Nerine ButtClimate Change, Gender, Research

Myrah Nerine and Alex Bush introduce a new paper that calls on decision makers at COP28 to pay attention to the gendered impacts of the climate emergency.

Five stages of healing: how we’re tackling gender-based violence in Gaza

Rawan NatshehGender, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women's Economic Empowerment

In our second blog for this year’s 16 Days of Activism against GBV, Reem Frainah and Rawan Natsheh explain how one local organisation has developed a model that both supports individual survivors while looking to intervene more broadly to shift attitudes among men and communities

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 …