10-12-2025Today is International Human Rights Day. Human rights are essential to our daily lives. They provide us with a framework to live together. Human rights offer protection, but they also offer opportunities for every human being, regardless of religion, belief, political opinion, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or any other grounds, to develop to their full potential.
The human rights of women and LHBTQI+ persons are under attack. A growing, well-organized, and well-funded group of ultra-conservative and autocratic actors aims a new world order—at the expense of women, girls, and non-binary people. A world order in which human rights no longer matter and are seen as an obstacle. The impact of the anti-gender movement goes far beyond restricting women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, or marginalizing transgender people. This concerns us all.
We continue to stand for our human rights and believe we are stronger together. That is why today, on December 10th, International Human Rights Day, we share all insights from the international conference we recently organised on creating awareness and building resilience against the anti-gender movement: the Rights at Risk Conference.
On 3 October 2025, we gathered over 110 policymakers, parliamentarians, researchers, (inter)national experts and civil society representatives in The Hague to learn about the tactics of anti-gender and anti-rights movement, and to build collective strategies and resilience not only to hold the line on gender justice, but to keep pushing it forward.
