Launch for Building Solidarities: Gender Justice in a Time of Backlash

Gender and sexual rights are increasingly under threat from a global wave of backlash.

This report examines the challenges that gender justice movements have experienced over recent years and outlines guiding principles for building solidarities for gender justice, as a means to counter this backlash.

In doing so, the report traces the evolution of the gender and development field since the 1970s, from challenging universalist assumptions about gender to visibilising care work, moving towards collective empowerment approaches, including sexual rights and paying attention to masculinities and patriarchy.

Speakers:

• Melanie Judge, Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape
  Town
• Inna Michaeli, Co-Executive Director, AWID
• Benedetta Musillo, Social Development Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth
  Development Office
• Vivek Rai, Deputy Director, Civil Society Division, UN Women
• Maheen Sultan, Senior Fellow, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development
• Nana Soares, Project Officer, Sexuality Policy Watch
• Susie Jolly, Honorary Associate, Institute of Development Studies
• Tessa Lewin, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
• Sohela Nazneen, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies

Host or Publisher Institute of Development Studies