Anti-gender movements have been on the rise in Europe and beyond, outright questioning gender equality, opposing sexual and reproductive rights of women, sexual minorities and young people’s access to information and education about their sexuality. The current Covid-19 response has provided these professionally organised groups with new opportunities to reinforce their agendas.
The Belgian APPG ‘Parliamentarians for the 2030 Agenda’ organised a webinar to deepen our understanding of these globally interconnected movements. Expert Dr. David Paternotte (ULB) explained how these movements repackaged their ideas about human dignity, the right to life, and religious freedom, making them sound modern and fresh, by rephrasing them in Human Rights language, and ultimately trying to change the meaning of human rights concepts.
EPF Secretary Neil Datta explained how the anti-gender movements have moved into the political sphere, where they have come to organise themselves very professionally, with far-right parties openly embracing their anti-gender ideas.
Lastly, Dr. Gabriela Rondon, co-director at Anis, Institute of Bioethics, in Brasilia explained how a wave of extremist populism is mobilising disinformation, anti-gender and anti-public health narratives in Brazil. Facing the Covid-19 pandemic makes that in many countries a strong case can be made for public funding for healthcare, but not in Brazil. Brazil’s president Bolsonera has been spreading a message of distrust about the WHO and China to the Brazilians, framing the fight against covid-19 in a globalist and authoritarian narrative; leaving many Brazilians with no real means to fight the coronavirus and making it the second hardest hit country in the world.
EPF Secretary Neil Datta explained how the anti-gender movements have moved into the political sphere, where they have come to organise themselves very professionally, with far-right parties openly embracing their anti-gender ideas.
Lastly, Dr. Gabriela Rondon, co-director at Anis, Institute of Bioethics, in Brasilia explained how a wave of extremist populism is mobilising disinformation, anti-gender and anti-public health narratives in Brazil. Facing the Covid-19 pandemic makes that in many countries a strong case can be made for public funding for healthcare, but not in Brazil. Brazil’s president Bolsonera has been spreading a message of distrust about the WHO and China to the Brazilians, framing the fight against covid-19 in a globalist and authoritarian narrative; leaving many Brazilians with no real means to fight the coronavirus and making it the second hardest hit country in the world.
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