22nd September 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 ministries focused on women and gender in the government.