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Thirty years after the Beijing Platform for Action: Experiences of institutionalisation, emerging generations of feminists, the rise of global anti-rights trends, and contemporary fault lines

16/03/2026

23 pages long

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Thirty years after the Beijing Platform for Action: Experiences of institutionalisation, emerging generations of feminists, the rise of global anti-rights trends, and contemporary fault lines

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The 69th session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) was convened in New York in March 2025 to mark 30 years since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) during the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. This commemoration unfolded under extraordinary circumstances, as the […]

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Building feminist just futures: strategies to end gender-based violence

16/03/2026

21 pages long

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Building feminist just futures: strategies to end gender-based violence

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In 2024–2025, as part of the Beijing+30 review processes, feminist groups undertook national reviews and consultations, and contributed to regional and global advocacy efforts to hold states accountable to their commitments to gender equality. In India, the Beijing+30 review process co-led by the Civil Society Steering Committee for India, in partnership with feminist groups, supported […]

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‘We are citizens too’: LGBTQIA+ claims for human rights in postwar Guatemala

16/03/2026

21 pages long

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‘We are citizens too’: LGBTQIA+ claims for human rights in postwar Guatemala

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In 1996, when Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, the country reaffirmed its commitments to ending gender inequality and promoting women’s human rights as part of its postwar development agenda, and in keeping with its obligations to implement the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). However, LGBTQIA+ rights were excluded: rather, LGBTQIA+ activists and development practitioners persistently […]

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Financing for gender equality and women’s rights: the role of feminist funds

24/06/2020

19 pages long

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Financing for gender equality and women’s rights: the role of feminist funds

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Progressive funders played an important role in supporting feminist movements to organise nationally, regionally, and transnationally, create feminist knowledge, research, and analysis, and influence both the official Beijing Conference and NGO Forum. Due to feminist organising both within and outside governments and United Nations bodies, the Beijing Conference was a landmark event for global commitments […]

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Beijing and its Platform for Action, then and now. A view from a young feminist in Malawi

24/06/2020

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Beijing and its Platform for Action, then and now. A view from a young feminist in Malawi

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This article, from the founder of Malawi’s Young Feminists Network, shares the writer’s experience of participating in the recent Young Women’s Regional Consultation, in Abidjan. The aim of the consultation was to enable dialogue between today’s young people and those who were young at the time of the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, to […]

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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

24/06/2020

24 pages long

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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

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The multilateral decision-making enabled by the United Nations (UN), as the world’s only forum for negotiating agreements between almost all countries, has been both fertile and frustrating for advancing women’s rights. The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing, held at a post-Cold War high point in international co-operation, generated a significant political settlement […]

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Close the Gap: How to eliminate violence against women beyond 2015

11/03/2014

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16 pages long

Languages: English

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At least one in three women worldwide will experience some form of violence during their lifetime, often perpetrated by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a fundamental human rights issue and a central challenge to development, democracy and peace. Oxfam is very concerned that efforts to eliminate violence against women do not […]

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Thirty years after the Beijing Platform for Action: Experiences of institutionalisation, emerging generations of feminists, the rise of global anti-rights trends, and contemporary fault lines

Building feminist just futures: strategies to end gender-based violence

‘We are citizens too’: LGBTQIA+ claims for human rights in postwar Guatemala

Financing for gender equality and women’s rights: the role of feminist funds

Beijing and its Platform for Action, then and now. A view from a young feminist in Malawi

Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Close the Gap: How to eliminate violence against women beyond 2015