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This blog, highlighting the environment-gender-development nexus from an African perspective, reviews progress and persistent challenges in the implementation of the two inextricable 1995 Declarations, framed within the context of the recently completed Second World Summit on Social Development.

This contribution is an overview of the GRAN-ESC blog series “The New Hot War on Women’s Rights: 30 Years Post-Beijing.” The series brings together regional and thematic reflections, some of which explore backlash while others focus more broadly on evolving gender equality debates.

This blog will present the gains made by women over the last half century, even as the far right expands in Latin America, and highlights policy progress and growing political will among Caribbean nations to address gender inequality. 

In Europe, the backlash against gender equality is increasingly articulated through the language of “gender ideology,” used by both state and non-state actors to challenge feminist gains and LGBTQ+ rights as well as co-opt gender equality language for other purposes.

When disabled leadership is at the core of our responses to climate breakdown and anti-rights movements, we do not narrow our ambitions. We expand the possible futures available to all of us.