The LGBTI Stakeholder Group is proud to be one of the organizers of the upcoming side event at the UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (RFSD) 2025:
🗓 Date: April 2, 2025 ⏰ Time: 13:15 CEST 📍 Location: Zoom Webinar 🎧 Interpretation available in Russian
About the Event
Across the UNECE region, the rise of far-right, anti-gender, and anti-rights movements threatens hard-won progress on gender equality, human rights, and climate justice. As these challenges grow, civil society continues to mobilize, resist, and build alliances to defend democracy and human rights for all.
This side event will bring together feminist, LGBTI, and human rights activists, academics, and experts to discuss strategies for collective action against anti-rights backlash. It is an opportunity to learn from frontline defenders, exchange insights, and strengthen movements committed to justice and equality.
Speakers Include:
🔹 Aïda Yancy – Independent consultant & activist, Holding the Line, Belgium 🔹 Dr. Gabriela Alvarez Minte – Regional gender advisor, UNFPA 🔹 Mariam Topchishvili – Feminist researcher & activist, Young Feminists, Georgia 🔹 Marsel Ganeyev – Tatar queer language activist, founder of Qara Magan initiative, Kazakhstan 🔹 Martin Hultman – Associate professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 🔹 Vidar Vetterfalk – Environment & climate expert, MÄN – Men for Gender Equality, Sweden
Why Join?
✅ Engage with leading activists and experts ✅ Learn about strategies to counteract the anti-rights backlash ✅ Be part of a growing movement for inclusive democracy and social justice
