The Anti-Gender Global North Descends on Nairobi Pan-African Conference
In May 2025, the African Christian Professionals Forum (ACPF) will host its second Pan-African Conference on Family Values in Nairobi, Kenya. This conference is projected to be much larger than the first one and will include most of the original international participants as well as new, influential stakeholders. Many participants are linked to political far-right movements and administrations, and they not only advocate on topics like abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive health care, and comprehensive sexuality education within their countries, but also through regional mechanisms and multilateral spaces like the United Nations. This report explains how many of the ideas and programs promoted at the conference are underwritten by veteran anti-gender actors who are not from the region but rather from the Global North. The conference and its areas of focus are crucial to understanding the strategy and next likely targets of this anti-rights movement.