Policy brief -  Where next for feminist foreign policy   on countering anti-gender backlash?

The five priority policy areas are: resourcing feminist movements; defending and upholding women’s rights in multilateral agreements; avoiding disbursement of funds to anti-gender actors; protecting sexual and reproductive rights, and the civil and political liberties of all women and LGBTQI+ people; countering harmful discourse and narratives in digital spaces. [...] Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank colleagues in the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion team for their support in the development of this policy brief and delivery of the ODI roundtable series. [...] This movement manifests most clearly in the rollback of sexual and reproductive rights, the reversal of gender equality policies, the defunding of related services and the curtailing of LGBTQI+ freedoms, such as the criminalisation of homosexuality. [...] • Host, support and finance regional and global conventions and ministerial-level engagements, such as the FFP+ Group at the UN, the Generation Equality Forum (UN Women, 2023), the Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy conference, the African CSW, and other gender justice forums with participation of feminist movements and other civil society actors, such as Women’s Major Group, Women’s Major Rights Cau. [...] 12 ODI Policy brief 4 Protect sexual and reproductive rights, and uphold the civil and political liberties of all women and LGBTQI+ people both at home and abroad The international global consensus on gender equality and women’s rights that was achieved during the 1990s through landmark UN conventions and platforms of action is being steadily lost – due to the influence of states resisting the lan.