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Yarlenis M. Malfrán situates Black transfeminist thought in Brazil and asks how racialization and cisnormative gender shape both the category of women and intellectual authority.
Yarlenis M. MalfránLed by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 far-right organizations, 'Project 2025' is an 887-page policy blueprint calling for the deletion of terms like 'gender equality' and 'reproductive rights' from federal regulations. This document is a comprehensive declaration of war on women's rights.
Feminist Majority Foundation / 10 minsUN Women connects biased AI outputs with the data, institutions and decisions that shape technology.
UN Women / 5 minsUN Women defines care as a public good and social infrastructure, connecting gender equality, climate crisis, public services, and care workers’ rights in one policy framework.
UN Women / 7 minsJapan’s Cabinet Office survey distinguishes physical, psychological, economic and sexual partner violence, exposing help-seeking gaps and denominator pitfalls.
内閣府男女共同参画局In the United States, women's reproductive rights are rapidly being eroded. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, nearly 30 states have restricted abortion access. This war on bodily autonomy threatens not just America, but women's rights globally.
Julie Bindel / 8 minsWHO connects the concentration of women in paid and unpaid care with low wages and underinvestment, showing that the care crisis is a structural result of devaluing women’s work.
World Health Organization / 7 minsUN Secretary-General António Guterres issues stark warning at the 2024 Commission on the Status of Women: 'Patriarchy is far from vanquished; it is regaining ground.' From Afghanistan to America, from digital spaces to political stages, women's rights are under systematic attack and decades of progress are being reversed.
United Nations / 10 minsIBGE's third-edition report connects unpaid care, work, education and income, revealing inequalities between women as well as between women and men.
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)A FAO - GFCM study traces women’s work across the fisheries value chain and shows how gaps in official data can reproduce their exclusion.
Eugenia Merayo; Valeriia Vakhitova; Anna CarlsonDataSenado’s exploratory interviews show how survey categories shape recognition of violence, without estimating national prevalence.
Instituto de Pesquisa DataSenadoThis policy brief examines the strength, fragmentation, financing, and political space of women’s movements across Africa, emphasizing that durable equality depends on autonomous collective power.
UN Women Africa / 15 mins