Anti-gender movements on the rise? / Medicus Mundi Switzerland

Anti-gender movements primarily seek to influence political strategy and policy-making with the ultimate aim of hampering, criminalising, illegalising or limiting the gender rights, sexual rights, and human rights entitlements of citizens. They are part of a wide movement which gathers groups opposed to feminism, LGBTI rights, gender equality, as well as contraception, immunisation, abortion and comprehensive sexuality education.

In this episode, Carine Weiss talks to Neil Datta about how crucial it is to understand the organisation and strategies of anti-gender groups for human rights defenders to effectively respond to the group’s efforts to undermine sexual and reproductive health rights. Achieving Gender Equality implies taming the anti-gender tide.

Neil Datta has been at the helm of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights since 2004. He founded the organisation with a select group of parliamentarians and with the support of IPPF in 2000, and has been responsible for its growth to its current membership of over 30 allparty parliamentary groups on population and development issues. Neil Datta has over fifteen years’ experience in the field of political involvement in population and development. Throughout this period he has conducted indepth research on anti-choice activity in Europe, publishing a report in 2018 that continues to receive worldwide media attention. He holds a Master's Degree in European Public Administration from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Languages from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Neil Datta holds five nationalities and is bilingual in English and French.

European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights

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Anti-gender movements on the rise?

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