The rise of a global anti-rights movement is threatening sexual and reproductive health and rights—as well as liberal democracies and the civil liberties and human rights of all.
For over 10 years, Ipas has been working to counter anti-rights efforts by tracking transnational trends and strategically sharing information with partners, media, researchers and allies. Our goal: To debunk the anti-rights agenda and drive action to help protect human rights for everyone.
Newest publications
2026
The Pro-Life, Pro-Family Core Group: The Evangelical Architecture Supporting Anti-Gender Initiatives at the United Nations
A United Nations “Pro-Life and Pro-Family Core Group” is currently under development, aiming to undercut and roll back global progress on gender equity and human rights. This report provides evidence of how, with the exception of the United States, this project is not being led by UN member states, but rather by an amalgam of anti-gender lobby groups. The effort is funded, in part, by a philanthropic block of US evangelicals and its pass-through vehicles, which are tied to a network of evangelicals allied with key members of the Catholic and political far right.
2026
Future-Proofing: The Professionalization of an Anti-Rights Youth Generation
Revealing how anti-rights movements have spent decades building a professional pipeline to future-proof their agenda and roll back rights—cultivating the next generation of legal experts, policy-makers, and digital strategists.
Q&A with Jamie Vernaelde, Ipas senior researcher
The lead author of Ipas’s Future Proofing: The Professionalization of an Anti-Rights Youth Generation explains why this trend matters now—and what sexual and reproductive health and rights movements must do to counter it.
“The future of bodily autonomy and gender justice depends on how we engage the next generation and support them to lead.”
2024
The Geneva Consensus Declaration in Action
Why advocates and policymakers should be concerned, and what can be done.
2024
Project 2025: An Anti-Gender Promise to Upend Foreign Assistance and Multilateralism
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025) is the far-right’s game plan to dismantle democratic norms in the United States and redirect US foreign policy and aid. This report focuses on the damage Project 2025 would have on overseas development assistance and international cooperation.
2024
Mission Creep: Expanding attacks on gender threaten the United Nations
United Nations spaces are increasingly addressing gender inequality in human rights and international development to promote equity. Accordingly, the anti-gender movement is advancing in UN spaces.
2024
Protego is a project of the Institute of Women’s Health, which is led by former Trump administration official Valerie Huber. Protego is designed to operationalize the non-binding, anti-abortion Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), which was created in 2020 by Huber under the Trump administration. Protego aims to supplant science-based, rights-respecting education, health, and foreign policy. Piloted in Guatemala in 2023 and formally launched in Uganda in February 2024, Protego is a threat to existing international human rights frameworks.
2023
The Political Network for Values: Global far-right at the United Nations
On November 17, 2023, a gathering was hosted at the United Nation’s New York City headquarters by the Political Network for Values (PNfV), a major organizing nexus for the global far-right. The global human rights community must critically examine PNfV’s role as a far-right organizer and pay serious attention to the ideologies and actions of its members, sponsors, and strategic partners.
2023
Pulling Back the Cover: The Roots, Relationships and Rise of Family Watch International
This report aims to shed light on FWI, a group that peddles disinformation and homophobia that is impacting health, education, and human rights policy from Arizona to East Africa and in multilateral spaces like the United Nations.
We’re sharing the truth
Anti-rights actors are undermining gender justice, LGBTQ+ rights and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including abortion. These actors are diverse and well-connected, and work across religious denominations, political affiliations, and geographies in ways that are often hard to track or recognize.
That’s why we offer a range of research and reports that expose the agendas and harmful global impacts of anti-rights actors. Please explore our research and resources and share widely.
Ipas research and reports
2023
Out of Bounds: Foreign and digital influence targeting LGBTI Rights in Ghana
This report details connections between Ghanaian leaders and conservative foreign groups, showing how anti-LGBTI rhetoric, and social and other media traffic, are being shaped and driven by these interests. This report also provides recommendations to continue exposing the origins of anti-LGBTI hatred in Ghana and guidance on supporting LGBTI rights and reclaiming the narrative from homophobic politicians and other personalities.
2023
False Pretenses: The anti-comprehensive sexuality education agenda weaponizing human rights
Despite the proven positive impact of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents, there is a growing movement opposed to the curricula based on moral or religious grounds. This report outlines the main anti-CSE actors and how they link to each other, UN member states, and other global, regional, and national anti-rights and anti-gender trends. It also highlights how the anti-CSE movement seeks to destabilize a pedagogical tool developed in partnership with families, teachers, and governments.
2022
Anti-rights groups take aim at transnational trade agreement
Three anti-rights groups based in the global north are leading an attack on the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement—the governing system of development cooperation for aid and trade between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states.
2022
Slide to Christian Nationalism: CPAC’s global expansion into Mexico
The U.S.-based Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), well known as a nexus for right-wing activism, is holding its first forum in Mexico. This brief for anyone interested in the global anti-rights movement provides an overview of CPAC’s background and international expansion, with a focus on how CPAC is collaborating with far-right actors in Mexico to advance its Christian nationalist agenda.
In the media
Latin America is the first target in Trump’s global plan. It won’t be the last in openDemocracy, 2026
At the UN, plans for a global coalition to attack LGBTQ and reproductive rights in Uncloseted Media, 2026
Project 2025 is already here in In These Times, 2024
Anti-abortion campaigns are gaining traction in the UK – with help from US cash in Truthout, 2024
Why Tump’s next presidency poses a new threat to women’s health in The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 2024
Ugandan president signs anti-gay law that includes death penalty as a punishment in The New York Times, 2023
Who are right-wing forces that attacked Georgia’s LGBTIQ+ ? in EU Observer, 2021
The Mission Field Hospital in Political Research Associates, 2020
Attacks on women’s ministries are a threat to democracy in Open Democracy, 2018