IMHO, MAGA overreach reveals the death-throes of thousands of years of patriarchal privilege

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4. Surge of Right-Wing Politics, Online Hate, Patriarchy Fuelling Violence against Women, UN Commission

https://press.un.org/en/2025/wom2246.doc.htm

Sixty-ninth Session,
14th & 15th Meetings (AM & PM)
WOM/2246
18 March 2025
Surge of Right-Wing Politics, Online Hate, Patriarchy Fuelling Violence against Women, Commission Told
The Commission on the Status of Women held an interactive dialogue today on gender-based violence, stigma, and stereotypes, focusing on the role of men and boys in ending the crisis, policy and legal responses to technology-facilitated violence, and the growing threat to women’s rights amid a “resurgence of right-wing authoritarian politics”.

The Commission’s two-week annual session has centered on accelerating the implementation of the Platform for Action adopted at the 1995 conference on women in Beijing, where world leaders pledged to achieve gender equality and uphold women’s rights. Two other interactive dialogues were held today on accountability and on the role of the Commission on the Status of Women in implementing the Platform for Action.

Delphine Schantz, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), moderating the first interactive dialogue, said that every 10 minutes a woman or girl is killed “by someone close to her”. A third of women killed by intimate partners had previously reported some form of violence. She emphasized the urgent need to raise awareness about necessary societal changes and to lead the implementation of effective prevention policies, including measures to combat the growing threat of technology-facilitated gender-based violence.