This event will launch the new IDS Bulletin ‘Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives’. It will address the urgent question of how we can better understand the recent swell of anti-gender backlash across different regions, exploring different types of actors, interests, narratives, and tactics for backlash in different places, policy areas, and processes.
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Produced by the Countering Backlash programme it includes contributions, insights, and expert knowledge from programme partners in diverse locations across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, Lebanon and the UK.
With the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, and the 10th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) fast approaching, and with global progress on gender justice on the rise around the world, we must find ways to combat gender backlash now.
In this launch event, speakers will reflect on their articles and share key findings from their research. The panel will then answer questions from the audience.
Speakers
- Josephine Akihire, Center for Basic Research.
- Jerker Edstrom, Research Fellow, IDS.
- Amon Mwiine, Center for Basic Research.
- Ishrat Jahan, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health.
- Sudarshana Kundu and Shraddha Chigateri, Gender at Work Consulting – India.
- Sohela Nazneen, Research Fellow, IDS.
Chair
Andrea Cornwall, King’s College.
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