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.