Reflections on Multilateralism Amid the Gender Equality Pushback Dr Gabriela Alvarez Minte, UNFPA Regional Gender Adviser.
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
Reflections on Multilateralism Amid the Gender Equality Pushback
Malet St, MAL B18
Dr Gabriela Alvarez Minte, UNFPA Regional Gender Adviser.
The lecture will offer a personal reflection on how the United Nations, and particularly UNFPA, is addressing the equality and human rights agenda amid the rapidly changing global political and economic context of 2025. This landscape is characterized by increasing geopolitical fragmentation, growing economic inequality, and significant challenges to the multilateral system-all of which disproportionately affect gender equality and sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). The speaker will examine the intensifying backlash against women’s rights, which is evident in regressive policies and attacks on gender-responsive frameworks. While resistance to gender equality is not new, it has recently gained momentum, further complicating the multilateral system’s efforts to advance equality and rights. The lecture will explore these developments, highlighting what needs to be better understood about the current environment and what is at stake for the future of gender equality and human rights.
Dr. Gabriela Alvarez Minte, is the Regional Gender Advisor for UNFPA’s Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. An international development practitioner that has worked extensively in the United Nations System at rational and country level. She specialises in gender and development and has more than 20 years of experience in the international cooperation system in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia and globally, working on women’s empowerment, gender norms and the promotion and protection of the rights of women and girls. She has a PhD in International Development from Birkbeck, University of London, and she has been part of international academic seminars as a guest lecturer and has published academic papers. She holds a Social Anthropology degree from Universidad de Chile and a Masters degree in Sociology from the University of Oxford (Green Templeton College) .
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