What does feminism in Luxembourg mean?

The Grand Duchy granted women suffrage in 1919 and abortion was fully legalised in 2014

Alexandra Thill
15/11/2025

Following a guest article in the Luxemburger Wort by Democratic Party politician Gérard Schockmel, who wrote that feminism aims to “systematically discriminate against men”, gender equality campaigners in the Grand Duchy spoke about what the movement means to them.GENDER

“Feminism is a movement that advocates equality for all genders,” Isabelle Schmoetten who heads the charity Women and Gender in Luxembourg (CID Fraen an Gender) told the Luxemburger Wort.

“Feminism is humanism," said Claudine Speltz from the National Council of Women in Luxembourg (CNFL), an umbrella organisation of different women's organisations. “It's about treating every person in such a way that they can exercise all their rights," she told the Luxemburger Wort.

Continued: https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/what-does-feminism-in-luxembourg-mean/104173755.html

A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

Last week, anti-choice campaigners emboldened by current US politics met in New York at the same time as UN delegates gathered to address the widespread inequalities women face. The battle to protect rights has never felt more urgent

Isabel Choat in New York, The Guardian
Sat 22 Mar 2025

In a meeting room on the 27th floor of a swish Manhattan hotel, Denise Mountenay is telling the audience that the right to abortion is “Nazi thinking.” Mountenay regrets her own abortions, and says she has been called by God to spread the word that she and other women “were lied to, deceived, pressured into making the most horrible choice: to choose death instead of life”.

She goes on to list reasons why abortion is “not a safe procedure. [That’s what] they want woman to think – that is a lie.” Many of her claims, including that abortion leads to breast cancer, have been thoroughly disproved by scientific studies.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/22/women-rights-un-anti-abortion-choice-poison-of-patriarchy-returns

22.03.2025

Commentary

69th Commission on the Status of Women

anti-choice bullshit

anti-choice cruelty

anti-choice deception

Campaign Life Coalition

International Planned Parenthood Federation

MSI Reproductive Choices

Nelly Munyasia

Oxfam

Pan-African Conference on Family Values

Project 2025

Richard and Helen DeVos Centre for Life

sexual and reproductive health and rights

Sima Bahous

Southern Poverty Law Center

Accelerate action: Reproductive rights and abortion access in Lagos State

—WEWIN
March 11, 2025

Every year on International Women’s Day (IWD), we reflect on progress, celebrate achievements, and reignite our commitment to gender equality. IWD 2025’s theme, “Accelerate Action,” underscores the urgent need for swift and tangible progress in achieving gender equality and reproductive justice.

Nowhere is this acceleration more critical than in the fight for reproductive rights, particularly the right to safe and legal abortion in Lagos State, Nigeria.

Continued; https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/accelerate-action-reproductive-rights-and-abortion-access-in-lagos-state/

11.03.2025

Commentary

Accelerate Action theme

gender equality

International Women's Day

maternal mortality

reproductive justice

WEWIN

Women Empowering Women Initiative

China hospital lambasted for anti-abortion slogans accusing mums of producing unruly kids

‘Educational’ signs in hospital slam mothers who terminate their pregnancies of ‘unwholesome deeds’ which damage male family line

Yating Yangin, Beijing
13 Jan 2025

A hospital in China has sparked outrage with anti-abortion slogans which claim women who terminate their pregnancies damage any future family they may have.

The slogans, which read “abortion harms the vitality of the male’s family” and “mothers who have had abortions tend to have rebellious children” have cause widespread anger.

They appeared at Heyuan Youhao Hospital in Heyuan, in Guangdong province, southern China, where anti-abortion promotional boards were displayed in the waiting area as part of a “Family Education Public Welfare Exhibition”.

Continued: https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3293582/china-hospital-lambasted-anti-abortion-slogans-accusing-mums-producing-unruly-kids

13.01.2025

News

anti-abortion slogans at Chinese hospital

Feng Yuan

gender equality

Heyuan Youhao Hospital

Asia

China

Anti-choice

Femicide and Reproductive Violence Harm African Women, Girls

Betty Kabari, Researcher, Women's Rights Division - Human Rights Watch
July 31, 2024

International African Women’s Day on July 31 recognizes the contribution of African women toward political, social, and economic freedom on the continent. But gender equality is still not a reality for most African women.

Many countries still have regressive laws, and even the more progressive laws in other countries are often poorly carried out. There is a lack of supportive frameworks to promote and safeguard women and girls’ equality, such as research into rights violations and public education on gender equality and women and girls’ rights.

Continued; https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/31/femicide-and-reproductive-violence-harm-african-women-girls

Abortion rights in the USA: An interview with Tarah Demant

Amnesty International
June 24, 2024

Tarah Demant is National Director of Programmes at Amnesty International USA, where she campaigns on issues such gender justice and abortion rights. The past year has been one of the toughest for her, as the USA has seen a huge rollback on human rights. In this interview, she talks about the impact of abortion bans on people in the USA, how she’s advocating for change at every level and why the hope and resilience of activists across the country spurs her on…

What was the most striking event in your region this year and why?
There has been an incredible backlash against gender justice throughout the Americas, including in the United States. One of the most obvious examples of this backlash is the attack on abortion rights across the region.

Continued: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2024/06/abortion-rights-in-the-usa-an-interview-with-tarah-demant/

24.06.2024

Interviews/Podcasts

Amnesty International USA

What Do the European Parliament Elections Mean for Gender Equality in Europe and Beyond?

The recent European Parliament elections show what happens when far-right parties gain institutional power in governmental structures. The U.S. must take note.

6/14/2024
by ALEXANDRIA WILSON-MCDONALD

In the fall of 2023, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico ran on a campaign promising to side with Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who recently shut down gender studies programs in Hungary, to get rid of the so-called “genderists” in the European Union. He was referring to people who support gender equality measures and LGBTQ+ rights.

Orbán and Fico are part of what has become known as the anti-gender movement, an amalgamation of populist and right-wing politicians, religious leaders and conservative activists—from men’s rights groups to antiabortion groups—that oppose gender equality measures, including reproductive rights, sex education in schools, marriage equality for LGBTQ+ couples, trans rights and legislation to combat gender-based violence. This movement has deep ties to the conservative movement in the United States.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2024/06/14/european-parliament-elections-right-conservative-women-abortion-gender/

Trudeau touts funding for women’s rights in New York amid abortion battle in U.S.

By James McCarten The Canadian Press
Posted April 27, 2023

The Liberal government is spending more money on women’s rights abroad – an effort to showcase Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s bona fides on gender equality in a country where access to abortion seems to be slipping away.

Trudeau was expected to reaffirm his government’s commitment to supporting reproductive freedom later Thursday at a star-studded progressive summit in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen on the shores of the Hudson River.

Continued: https://globalnews.ca/news/9654822/trudeau-new-york-visit/

27.04.2023

Gender equality isn’t possible without abortion and contraception

Access to reproductive health protects women and girls, uplifts them and allows them to prosper.

Banchiamlack Dessalegn, Africa Director at MSI Reproductive Choices
Published On 18 Mar 2023

It is Women’s History Month and the world is bursting with proclamations of support for gender equality and women’s rights. But too often, the general narrative celebrating historical progress on gender issues leaves out abortion and contraception, sidelining the fact that without them, gender equality would have been – and still is – impossible.

This year, millions of women and girls will be denied access to abortion, forced to carry unintended pregnancies to term or resort to unsafe termination. Abortion continues to be unjustly restricted across the world, most recently in the United States, where new state bans are being introduced with the Supreme Court’s decision to rescind the legal protection of abortion established in the 1970s.

Continued: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/3/18/gender-equality-isnt-possible-without-abortion-and-contraception

18.03.2023

Opinion

Banchiamlack Dessalegn

gender equality

maternal mortality

MSI Reproductive Choices

Women's History Month

Will the world abort women’s rights after death of Roe v. Wade?

BY ELLEN WULFHORST, THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Nov 24, 2022

PATTAYA CITY, THAILAND – Women and girls around the world will suffer a knock-on effect from the U.S. decision to roll back abortion rights, experts say, predicting a global clampdown on hard-won female freedoms.

From access to abortion to voting rights, equal pay to equal status, women from Africa to Asia to Europe are expected to feel the fallout of the U.S. decision to reverse Roe v. Wade.

Continued: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/11/24/world/women-rights-abortion/

BY ELLEN WULFHORST, THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Nov 24, 2022

From access to abortion to voting rights, equal pay to equal status, women from Africa to Asia to Europe are expected to feel the fallout of the U.S. decision to reverse Roe v. Wade.

Continued: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/11/24/world/women-rights-abortion/