Bottom-Up Ideas about Gender Justice from Violent Contexts Need Greater Recognition in the International Women’s Rights Agenda

May 3, 2020 | Nicholas Pope and Julia Zulver
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With the world reaching the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action to end gender inequality and the 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, an article in The Guardian recently felt able to claim that “[w]orld leaders, civil society and the private sector are preparing to make 2020 the biggest year yet for the advancement of women’s rights. Attention-grabbing articles like these seem to herald a watershed moment for the entrenchment of women’s rights internationally, yet significant structural, political, social, and cultural barriers to this progressive global agenda persist the world over.