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LNOB Brown Bag session: anti-rights movement

We present our first Brown Bag Session of 2025: a short online, informal learning session. In this brown-bag session, we’ll take a deep dive into the global anti-rights movement. We’ll focus on how their tactics result in a backlash against the human rights of women, LGBTIQ+ people and marginalised groups such as sex workers and people who use drugs.

Joined by Mama Cash, the Love Alliance, and Aidsfonds, we will give examples of anti-rights groups and how they manifest in our societies. We invite you to bring your own lunch and engage!

  • Date and time 18 March 2025, 12:00 - 12:45 CET
  • Where Online
  • For whom Anyone interested

Understanding how movements operate

A well-funded and coordinated global anti-rights movement is actively seeking to undo the progress made globally on protecting the human and sexual and reproductive rights of women, LGBTIQ+ people and marginalised groups to live freely. Understanding how these movements operate and developing strategies to counter their campaigns and increase commitment for equity, inclusion and diversity. This is crucial to sustain and expand the progress made over the past years in protecting human rights. 

Push back on the strategies that anti-rights groups use

In this brown bag session, representatives of Mama Cash and the Love Alliance will be interviewed by Aidsfonds about the strategies anti-rights groups use and the negative impact these groups have on positive changes in the human rights context. We will present why understanding the tactics of anti-rights groups is relevant for all of us working on human rights. We will also reflect on how to push back against the consistent opposition.

Partos, Mama Cash, the Love Alliance, and Aidsfonds warmly invite interested organisations to a knowledge exchange session on the global anti-rights movement and its impact on civil society. 

Leave No One Behind Brown Bag Sessions

This Brown Bag lunch session is part of a series organised by the Partos Leave No One Behind Community of Practice (LNOB) with inspiring presentations on intersectionality and Leave No One Behind in practice. Digest fresh off the shelve, or yet to be tested best practices, tools, and approaches that aim to put rightsholders in the driving seat and reduce discrimination.

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