Holding the Line joins over 1,200 feminist organisations warning that the UN’s growing financial crisis threatens gender justice, human rights, multilateral cooperation, and the ability of feminist movements to resist anti-rights backlash.

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Holding the Line joins over 1,200 feminist organisations warning that the UN’s growing financial crisis threatens gender justice, human rights, multilateral cooperation, and the ability of feminist movements to resist anti-rights backlash.

Across the UNECE region, feminist activists are resisting democratic erosion, anti-gender backlash, and climate injustice; often at great personal risk. Our latest report captures powerful insights and strategies shared during our side event at the 2025 Regional Forum on Sustainable Development.

(UN, Geneva) In this reflection from the UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, we call out the role of governments and institutions in fuelling backlash and blocking climate and gender justice. It’s time to name power, hold the line, and demand accountability.