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Making for “strange bedfellows”: the Women, Peace and Security agenda after UNSCRs 2467 and 2493

In this article, Jenna Sapiano and Natasha Singh Raghuvanshi argue that the negotiations leading up to the adoption of the two most recent resolutions of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda of the United Nations Security Council, and the modifications made to the final accepted language, reveal how the mechanisms designed to protect and advance women's rights can also be employed to undermine them.

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Exploring the fault lines and their political efficacy in anti-gender politics in the context of democratic backsliding

This article examines the politics of knowledge production and the affective politics of rising anti-genderism in civil society in contemporary Turkey with a focus on two main points: (1) the variety of actors and their different strategies opposing “gender ideology,” and (2) the effects of state–movement dynamics on the political efficacy of those strategies. The findings demonstrate that anti-gender alliances between state and civil society actors display a discursive plurality in Turkey in terms of how they manage the fluidity and heterogeneity of the opposition to “gender ideology” that links a wide range of concerns about feminist ideas, movements, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI+) rights.

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Ending Violence Against Women in Europe

The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention is a contested issue in Central and Eastern Europe. This article investigates this matter further by focusing specifically on Bulgaria and Poland using the most similar systems design; the former country has not ratified the convention, but the latter has.

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