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The fifty-year history of the global feminist movement and the United Nations is often untold and yet remains a critical foundation for global feminist advocacy today. This article explores the origins and evolution of feminist advocacy at and with the UN from 1975 to 2025, beginning with the UN World Conferences on Women. Within a […]

The role of LGBTQI human rights defenders in the international arena at the United Nations (UN) is a particularly risky and insecure one, especially for those who themselves identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, two spirit, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI). This article focuses on the anecdotal experiences of LGBTQI-identified human rights defenders and their […]