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Podcast mini-series: Gender Justice – episode 1

Countering Backlash in association with CREA is working with ‘The Stop, Collaborate and Listen Agency‘, and their podcast ‘Connecting Citizens to Science’, to explore the intersecting challenges of rising patriarchal backlash, silencing of marginalised voices and resistance in the Global […]

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Event: Understanding Discourse Capture in Anti-Gender Politics

Countering Backlash researcher Tessa Lewin is speaking at Stellenbosch University about the concept of ‘discourse capture’ as a analytical tool to help us understand the nature of contemporary anti-feminist and anti-queer politics. This is a concept that grew from an […]

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Partner Event: WOUGNET at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025

Countering Backlash partner WOUGNET are hosting a session at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, 1 May, on Reclaiming Gender Justice in the Digital Age: Countering Backlash and Advancing Digital Rights and Equity’. The global progress towards gender equality is […]

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Event: Countering Backlash – Towards a Feminist Future

The very ideas – let alone the possibilities – of gender and social justice are under attack the world over. These attacks are becoming increasingly acute, multi-layered, and globally resonant, seeking to erase language, movements, legal frameworks, and even entire […]

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Countering Backlash partner AIW wins prestigious award

We are excited to announce that our partner organisation the Arab Institute for Women (AIW) at the Lebanese America University (LAU) has won at the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Arab World 2024. Winning in the category of ‘Research Project […]

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Patriarchy, Policy, Voice, Research, Lebanon
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Event: Eliminating gender-based violence: Strategies to counter backlash

Violence against women and girls remains a global human rights violation, with the UN reporting that almost 1 in 3 women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence. Along with the ever-growing forces catalysing backlash against gender justice worldwide, […]

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Countering Backlash panels at the DSA Conference 2024

Countering Backlash researcher Sohela Nazneen (IDS), Nay El Rahi (AIW), Maheen Sultan, Md Mohaiminul Islam and Shamsad Navia Novelly (BIGD) took part in the Development Studies Association’s 2024 annual conference. The hybrid conference was organised and hosted by the School […]

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Voice, Convening, Bangladesh, Lebanon
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Countering Backlash researcher Sohela Nazneen contributes to new book ‘Fifty Years of Bangladesh’

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organised a launching programme for the book titled “Fifty Years of Bangladesh: Economy, Politics, Society and Culture”, on Thursday, 18 April 2024. The volume has been published by Routledge and co-edited by Professor Rehman Sobhan, […]

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Convening, Bangladesh
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Event: Financing a gender justice infrastructure to counter anti-gender ideology and anti-rights movements

How gender is being weaponised across contexts as a means to undermine human rights and threaten democracy? Countering Backlash co-convened a parallel event with the Ford Foundation and the Global Philanthropy Project for the 68th session of the Commission on […]

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Convening
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Event: Sustaining and expanding south-south-north partnerships and knowledge co-construction on global backlash to reclaim gender justice

We are living in a time of global unrest and division stoked by increasing polarisation in politics, authoritarianism and backlash on gender equality, inclusion and social justice. This event, during the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2024, […]

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Patriarchy, Policy, Voice, Convening, Kenya, Lebanon
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Event: How is backlash weakening institutional contexts for gender justice globally?

Gender backlash is continually gaining momentum across the globe, and social and political institutions and policies are being dismantled. Gender justice activists and women’s rights organisations are having to mobilise quickly to counter these attacks. With speakers from Bangladesh, Uganda, […]

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Patriarchy, Policy, Voice, Capacity building, Bangladesh, India, Lebanon, Serbia, Uganda
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Event: Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives

The 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, and the 10th anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are fast approaching. And with global progress on gender justice on the rise around the world, we […]

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