Issue:
The current pandemic has the potential to seriously undermine hard-won gender and reproductive rights around the world. We have already seen countries using this crisis as cover for the introduction/advancement of repressive bills meant to limit women’s freedoms - for example, Poland and the US are using this time to restrict/attempt to restrict access to abortion.
How can these rollbacks be monitored, called out and ultimately condemned by the global community?
Solution:
Feminist foreign policies, gender balanced and gender conscious crisis response teams.
Who Should Act:
States, nations and international organisations; can be supported by pressure and lobbying efforts by local/grassroots level actors.