The Erosion of Women’s Rights Is a Warning Sign for Democracies Everywhere

Our latest report, “Progress and Backlash: Accountability for the Rights of Women and Girls,” shows we are at a perilous moment of global regression in women’s rights. Across regions, protections once considered settled are being diluted, defunded and deliberately dismantled, as hard-won legal safeguards are targeted and eroded.

The failure to effectively regulate digital spaces is enabling harmful gendered misinformation to spread online with minimal oversight or accountability.
Budgets for gender equality are being cut, and in several countries, ministries dedicated to women’s empowerment and protection have been merged, marginalized or dismantled—a stark demonstration of how women’s rights are being deprioritized.
Reproductive freedoms have been curtailed, while comprehensive sexuality education is being removed from classrooms in the name of “family values.” Link to full story here.