A Call to Collective Action Towards Transformative, Survivor-Centered and Intersectional Justice Grounded in Human Rights for All Women and Girls, Ahead of The 70th Session of The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70)
Governments are failing to provide access to justice to all women and girls—it’s only through our collective power that we can demand that they do.
As the global community convenes at the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) under the priority theme of ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, this call takes on renewed urgency.
Across the world, governments are rolling back decades of progress on gender equality.
We enter CSW70 at a moment when some states are openly attempting to hollow out international norms, weaponize ‘morality’ and shrink civic space. The Trump administration’s expansion of the Global Gag Rule in January 2026 is a disastrous example of an assault on human—and in particular, women’s, girls’ and LGBTQI people’s—rights.
It is now incumbent upon all of us more than ever to gather, to act, and to resist. History has shown us time and time again that when states fail, the collective power of activists, students, and communities rises. It is this very collective power that can demand that states act and hold them responsible when they don’t.
Amnesty International’s slogan “Humanity Must Win” is an affirmation.
It’s an urgent and necessary reminder that people power—especially in collectives—has always pushed principles of humanity forward, even under repression, conflict, and authoritarianism. Amnesty International’s work with partners on the ground demonstrates that solidarity is not an abstract value. It is a force that sheds light on violations, centers resistance, and opens pathways to accountability, justice, and progress. This digest captures the same spirit across Amnesty International’s gender work today: communities supporting each other, collectives of people from different walks of life refusing to accept pushbacks, and activists insisting that another world is possible.
It also celebrates the power we build together—and the future we can only win together. Amnesty International’s gender justice work is inseparable from the leadership of partners, feminist movements, survivors, community organizers and local advocates. Because this digest is necessarily brief, we have not been able to name all the organizations and collectives that make this work possible. Nothing we do is done alone. This digest is, above all, a celebration of shared struggle, shared courage, and shared victories.
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