In a document published Monday, February 13, several associations warn against the regressions against the rights of women which are multiplying throughout the world.
Right to abortion revoked by the Supreme Court in the United States, prohibition to study or hold certain jobs for women in Afghanistan or restrictions on access to contraception in Poland… Regression in terms of women’s rights « are growing all over the worlde”, denounces a report by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and the feminist association Equipop.
This text denounces in particular the lobbying of conservative movements in international institutions, in particular within a commission of the Economic and Social Council of United Nationswhich is one of the principal organizations of the United Nations.
” The commission on the status of women, which brings together the international community to adopt texts in favor of gender equality, is a place that is heavily invested by anti-rights movements, which arrive in very large, very well-funded delegations. to tip the scales against women’s rights and really unravel progressive international conventions », Estimates Lucie Daniel, co-author of the report.
“Reaffirm the traditional patriarchal vision of the family”
According to the document, these movements are often motley alliances “ between States at the antipodes of the diplomatic chessboard, far-right political groups, fundamentalist religious movements and particularly conservative large fortunes “. For example, on the sidelines of the 2020 UN General Assembly, ” of states adopted the Geneva Consensus Declaration, an anti-abortion-rights declaration that was really meant to reaffirm the traditional patriarchal view of the family, according to these states “, denounces Ms. Daniel, citing in particular the United States, Brazil or Egypt.
Finally, the document makes several recommendations to the attention of the French authorities. They demand more funding for associations and feminist movements, “ defend and protect “activists and make struggles” a subject of priority diplomacy within French and European institutions and in the world “.
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