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How Debates Over Women's Rights Become Polarized At the United Nations

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Mark Leon Goldberg
Aug 02, 2021
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At the United Nations, debates over gender equality, reproductive health and women's rights were not always as polarized as they are today. When I started covering the United Nations as a journalist in the early 2000s the feminist movement, broadly speaking, was in ascendence and very much driving discussions around gender issues at the UN. 

This is not as much the case today. According to my guest today, Jelena Cupac, that is because of the ascendence of a transnational network of conservative anti-feminist NGOs operating at the United Nations.  Jelena Cupac is a PHD with the Berlin Social Science Center. She is the co-author with Irem Ebeturk of an article in the academic journal International Affairs "Backlash advocacy and NGO polarization over women’s rights in the United Nations" which examines how this network of conservative NGOs has been able to influence debates over women's rights at the United Nations.

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