Feminist demonstration by the organization “We all”, November 25, 2022. Damien Meyer / AFP
Regressions in women’s rights are increasing around the world, alert associations in a report published on Monday, February 13, which recommends putting the subject at the forefront of the diplomatic scene.
Right to abortion revoked by the Supreme Court in the United States, ban on studying or holding certain jobs for women in Afghanistan or restrictions on access to contraception in Poland… Regressions in terms of rights women “are growing all over the world“, denounce in a report the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and the feminist association Equipop.
No region of the world is spared
“No region is sparedby this flashback phenomenon that occurs whenvery diverse groups will unite against women’s rights“, comments to AFP Lucie Daniel, advocacy officer for Equipop.
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States located at the antipodes of the diplomatic chessboard, far-right political groups, fundamentalist religious movements: the anti-rights movementsare often the result of heterogeneous alliances“, thus describes the report.
These particularly well-organized movements are connected to each other” And “generously fundedwhich allows them to block progress, maintain the status quo or cause setbacks in rights.
cause a shock
“The government must take the measure of these threats», believes Lucie Daniel, who wants to provoke “a political upheaval in France“.
“We took a bit of a breather after the last elections in the United States and Brazil which were not won by the conservative camps, but the capacity for nuisance of the anti-rights movements remains strong“, she warns.
France is one of ten countries to have declared its intention to implement a feminist foreign policy. For this, the report recommends to increase “substantially” financial support for feminist associations and to make feminist struggles “a subject of priority diplomacy”.
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