Anti-rights groups tried to take over a UN summit. Feminists fought back
Posted by Victory on April 28, 2022 at 2:10 pm
This article was authored by Umyra Ahmad and originally published on Open Democracy.
Feminist activists faced two key battles at this year’s session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, held over two weeks in March.
The first was a wave of opposition from anti-rights groups, who continued their cynical ploys to undermine rights relating to gender and sexuality. The second was in the form of inaction on climate change, from countries, mostly from the Global North, who consider themselves “gender champions”.
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