To mark the UN’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, IDS is involved in a series of events around gender equality.
With gender and sexual rights increasingly under threat from a global wave of backlash, strategies are urgently needed to help feminist and LGBTQI+ groups come together to resist this pushback.
We will be sharing research findings which will help analyse the challenges facing gender justice movements, amplify voices from women’s rights movements, and present ideas for moving forward.
Event: Report launch for Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash
21 November 2024
16:00–17:30 UK time
Join us for the launch of a major new IDS report, Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash.
Speakers from organisations such as UN Women, the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development and Sexuality Policy Watch will discuss the report findings and next steps for gender justice movements.
Event: Eliminating gender-based violence: Strategies to counter backlash
25 November 2024
12:30-14:00 UK time
Join Countering Backlash for an important and timely event on the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. You will hear from gender practitioners, academics, and activists from Bangladesh, Brazil, Lebanon, and Uganda on how violence against gender activists manifests, how gender backlash actors undermine state efforts to address violence, how feminists are countering this backlash to ensure gender-based violence (GBV) is addressed.
Countering Backlash is a programme led by IDS with partners including academic institutions, activists, feminist networks, social movements and policymakers.
Photo exhibition: Contemporary women’s struggles in South Asia
Sustaining Power will be launching a photo exhibition centring the voices from 16 women’s rights movements across Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The exhibition speaks of women’s multi-faceted struggles and successes amid growing anti-gender backlash, and will be showing in the following locations:
Delhi, India: 25-26 November, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road. Held in partnership with the Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST).
Kathmandu, Nepal: 29-30 November, Patan Museum, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal. Held in partnership with CARE Nepal.
Bangkok, Thailand: 2-5 December, Booth A4 in the Exhibition Space at the AWID International Forum.
Dhaka, Bangladesh: 8-9 December, Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, 17 Mymensingh Road, Banglamotor, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Held in partnership with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD).
Lahore, Pakistan: 16-18 December, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. Held in partnership with the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS).
Brighton, UK: currently running and up until March 2025, in the IDS exhibition space: Library Road, University of Sussex, Brighton.
Sustaining Power (SuPWR) is a collaborative research project bringing together five leading organisations and a multi-disciplinary research team with deep expertise on women’s rights and contemporary power struggles in South Asia.
Learn more about the Sustaining Power project.
Find us at AWID!
The AWID International Forum is a global gathering of feminist activists, allied movements, scholars, funders and policymakers taking place in Bangkok, Thailand from 2-5 December 2024. IDS will be there along with our partners – come and find us at Booths A2, A3 and A4 in the Exhibition Space.
