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2023-2025 Despite numerous global frameworks for human rights and the struggle for justice, armed conflicts continue to expose the disproportionate vulnerabilities faced by women (and other groups), who bear the brunt of displacement, loss of livelihoods, and the collapse of…
2024-2025 The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 1994, and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995, were historic landmarks. ICPD shifted the global framework from population control to sexual and reproductive health and rights…
2020 The accelerated digital transformation generates deep feminist concerns around access, surveillance, labour, and data governance. Feminist movements highlight the widening digital divide, where poor and rural women face limited access to infrastructure, tools, and literacy. At the same time,…
2020 For decades before the 2020s, feminist climate justice campaigns have foregrounded structural inequalities—colonial land theft, capitalist extractivism, and state-backed environmental violence. Across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, feminist groups have demanded just transitions that centre care economies, land sovereignty,…
2019 The Nairobi Summit, held to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), brings together governments, women’s groups, youth networks, UN agencies, and private sector actors to review progress and set future…
2018-2020 Latin America witnesses a surge of feminist mobilisation for reproductive rights. Led by Argentina’s marea verde (“green wave”), activists reframe abortion as a matter of justice, health, and human rights. The movement’s mass protests, legal advocacy, and public education…
2015 In Argentina and across Latin America, Ni Una Menos had mobilized mass protests against femicide and state impunity. The femicide of 14-year-old Chiara Páez in 2015 motivates a self-organized call to agitate against all kinds of violence against women…
2015 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) marks a formal commitment to gender equality, with SDG 5 calling for an end to violence against women, equal economic participation, and access to reproductive rights. Although the SDGs explicitly reference gender equality and…
2013 The Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development represents a landmark regional agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean, firmly grounding population and development policies in human rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Building on the ICPD…
2012 At the 2012 Rio+20 Conference, two decades after the Earth Summit, the global community reaffirms the importance of engaging all sectors of civil society in sustainable development. The outcome document, “The Future We Want,” emphasizes the role of Major…