"The sudden stop work order on USAID in January 2025 sent shock waves around the world. Many health clinics were immediately shut down, leaving millions without access to vital medicines and facilities, with potentially deadly consequences, especially for HIV patients, children, and women and adolescent girls. To many, the subsequent axing of 83% of USAID programmes seemed like pure nihilism, engineered by ideologues who wanted to kill off the agency."
"The anti-rights movement also known as the anti-gender movement refers to a global network of political leaders, religious institutions, civil society groups as well as billionaire families and individuals that seek to undermine progress across a wide spectrum of issues. These include abortion, LGBTQ rights, trans rights, non-traditional family structures and comprehensive sexuality education. They do this by lobbying governments, supporting court cases, discrediting international efforts to advance equality, spreading disinformation, and funding non-profit organisations that align with their values."
A sudden stop-work order on USAID in January 2025 halted many programmes and shut health clinics worldwide, leaving millions without medicines and facilities and endangering HIV patients, children, women, and adolescent girls. The subsequent axing of roughly 83% of USAID programmes dismantled core US foreign assistance structures and enabled a longer-term remaking of global health governance. A coordinated anti-rights or anti-gender movement operates as a transnational network of political leaders, religious institutions, civil society groups, and wealthy backers that seeks to roll back abortion, LGBTQ and trans rights, non-traditional family recognition, and comprehensive sexuality education through lobbying, litigation, disinformation, and targeted funding.
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