22nd septembre 2025
Governments must:
- Strengthen national laws and end any sex and gender-based discrimination in the law to lay the foundation against the backlash against the rights of women and girls.
- Intervene in multi-lateral platforms and institutions to promote and defend a rights-based approach to negotiations, statements, agreements, and consensus-building.
- Encourage and incentivise other governments to incorporate international human rights standards in their laws and policies.
- Push back and guard against the weaponisation of language around ‘family values’ that is meant to weaken the hard-won rights of women and girls, and LGBTQ+ persons.
- Provide material resources, and financial and political support to civil society organisations, feminist, human rights-based, and multistakeholder movements.
- Protect freedom of expression and eliminate arbitrary restrictions or criminalisation of human rights defenders, independent media, survivors and activists.
- Meaningfully engage with vulnerable and excluded populations, human rights defenders, and civil society to understand and act on concrete concerns raised.
Expand and support the mandate of women and gender-focused ministries in the government.