Rising patriarchal resistance in Africa against gender equality and health rights

Only 54 months are left to deliver on the promise of gender equality (SDG-5), and health and wellbeing (SDG-3) by 2030. But the sense of urgency and purpose is acutely missing and instead of going forward, in many instances we are slipping backwards. Growing anti-rights and anti-gender pushbacks are trying to reverse whatever progress has been made on gender and health rights, especially for girls and women and gender diverse communities.

#RethinkRebuildRise ★ #PutPeopleFirst to deliver on #endAIDS and #endTB targets in next 54 months


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Be welcome to join us in an AIDS 2026 Affiliated Independent Event on the theme: #RethinkRebuildRise: #PutPeopleFirst to deliver on #endAIDS and #endTB targets in next 54 months.

[video] Community-led health services: Learnings from Thailand

4th Edition of SHE & Rights Media Awards 2026-2027


After the largest convening on gender equality in 2026 (Women Deliver Conference 2026) and ahead of 79th World Health Assembly and International Day of Action for Women's Health and Menstrual Hygiene Day, the Geneva-based Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI) and CNS proudly announce the 4th Edition of SHE & Rights Media Awards 2026-2027.

India's highest court finally realises the monetary worth of a homemaker's unpaid care work

[हिंदी] It all started with a road accident in Indian state of Punjab on 25th November 2001 which killed home maker Reshma - a mother of three children. Incidentally, 25th November is also observed globally as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

End TB Dialogues | Joep Lange Awardee 2026 Joshua Brianwong Clark

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Protecting Maputo Protocol is critical to resist anti-rights pushbacks and advance gender equality and right to health

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We invite you to another important SHE & Rights session on the regressive draft ‘African Charter on family, sovereignty and values,’ which threatens to undermine progress made on gender equality and right to health in the African continent.

Will governments make tobacco industry pay for all the harms it causes?

[watch the launch of Global Week of Action to Make Big Tobacco Pay] "How can we allow the tobacco industry to fill its coffers while we the people have to empty our pockets to fend for and suffer all the harms tobacco industry has caused? It is high time to shift the financial burden from people and communities to the tobacco industry for ALL the harms caused by its businesses," said Shobha Shukla while opening the launch of the historic Global Week of Action to Make Big Tobacco Pay.