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In 1995, feminist activists gathered in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women, creating transformative frameworks that led to significant global changes. However, feminist movements now face coordinated attacks by anti-rights forces. On March 10th at CSW69, the Alliance for Feminist Movements, Count Me In! Consortium, and Women Deliver co-hosted an event to discuss the evolution and future of feminist funding. In 1995, feminist activists and allies gathered in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women, leaving with multidimensional political and narrative frameworks, language, and strategies that would not only support transformative change – for example, the institutionalisation of the term gender, the liberalisation of abortion laws in over 60 countries , and the international recognition of rape as a war crime – but also build a dynamic feminist funding ecosystem. Due in large part to the substantial strength and progress of feminist movements, we are in the midst ...

The 69th meeting of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) marked the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women which took place in 1995 in Beijing, China. It was Jennifer Bushee’s first time attending the CSW in New York. The following are some of her key insights from the plenitude of sessions addressing topics as diverse as pushback on rights and gender; gender justice; climate justice; economic justice; and Big Tech   Equity and Economic Sense     Unpaid labour continues to be a major concern. UNRISD ’s session , “Addressing structural barriers for progress on the BPfA [Beijing Platform for Action] : Financing Care systems as a development strategy” on 19 March addressed the problems of not remunerating childcare, eldercare, support for individuals with disabilities, and domestic labor. The work is essential for functioning societies , but remains undervalued, invisible, and unevenly distributed — disproportionately impacting women a...