Latest backlashes
Find more about the latest contestations of gender equality in countries across the Euro-Mediterranean region below.
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13 Mar 2024
France: Senate rejects menstrual leave draft law
11 Mar 2024
Lebanon: Israeli attacks on Southern Lebanon reduce women’s and LGBITQ+ peoples’ access to humanitarian aid and SRHR services
11 Mar 2024
Turkey: Government bans International Women Day’s march and tear-gasses peaceful protesters
9 Mar 2024
Egypt: Coptic Orthodox Church reiterates its opposition to homosexuality
23 Feb 2024
Palestine: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls
16 Feb 2024
Cyprus: Government says country “not ready for Gay marriage”
9 Feb 2024
Spain: Eurovision entry song condemned as sexist by feminists
31 Jan 2024
Turkey: Political parties target LGBTIQ+ people in local election campaigns
31 Jan 2024
Italy: Prosecutors contestation of children born to same-sex parents’ birth certificates
26 Jan 2024
Jordan: Crackdown on LGBTIQ+ activists
State Institutions/Bodies
Political homophobia
Anti-gender
Smearing campaign/Diffamation
Judicial harassment (incl. Arbitrary Arrests, Bans, and Detentions)
Military/Secret Services
Hate-speech
Enactment of violence (offline/online)
Freedom from violence
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Freedom of assembly and association
24 Jan 2024
France: Feminist anger at President Macron’s « demographic rearmament » plan
12 Jan 2024