Significant progress on gender equality has been made in past decades, but in recent years gender and sexual rights have become increasingly under threat from a global wave of backlash.

In this special podcast to celebrate International Women’s Day, IDS Fellow Deepta Chopra is in conversation with gender experts Myriam Sfeir, Director of the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University in Beirut and Aisha Lai, Liberian Country Director of the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation.

In the podcast, they discuss the rollback of gender justice, the backlash they have faced in their own work, and the strategies that we can use to counter these challenges.

This podcast is a must-listen for researchers, policymakers and students with an interest in gender rights and for those that advocate for building solidarities for gender justice as a primary tactic to counter the rising backlash.

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