In the Era of “Paradoxes”: Gendered-Based Violence, Mobilization, and Resistance in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism
In the Era of “Paradoxes”: Gendered-Based Violence, Mobilization, and Resistance in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism
Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: FSE002 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee) Language: English
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The Beijing Conference played a significant role for mainstreaming women’s right as human rights and called for global partnership for addressing and eliminating gender-based violence across the world. Consequently, on the one hand, these three decades witnessed great strides in advocacy, activism, and the growth of more supportive legislative and policy environments to curb gender-based violence; on the other, the rise of authoritarianism around the world and emerging/on-going wars and conflicts have also led to a significant backlash against gender equality, intensification of gender-based violence and the reversals of hard-won gains in women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. This session invites papers that take stock of the paradoxes we witness and pays particular attention to the ways in which feminist and social justice groups around the world have responded, resisted and mobilized.
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