Tracking the Backlash - openDemocracy (Page 23)

Decine di politici europei collegati ad una ‘incubatore di estremismo’ americano

Nuove ricerche di openDemocracy portano alla luce connessioni crescenti tra politici europei ed un network di ultra-conservatori americani e russi.

By Claire Provost and Nandini Naira Archer

/ 29 Mar 2019

Decine di politici europei collegati ad una ‘incubatore di estremismo’ americano

Italian neo-fascists prepare to join World Congress of Families events

Forza Nuova is ‘seizing the opportunity’ to raise its profile in Verona, a city already seen as welcoming to even the most extreme right-wing groups.

By Giulia Siviero

/ 29 Mar 2019

Italian neo-fascists prepare to join World Congress of Families events

Revealed: dozens of European politicians linked to US ‘incubator for extremism’

New openDemocracy research exposes increasing connections between a network of US, Russian and other ultra-conservatives and senior European politicians.

By Claire Provost and Nandini Naira Archer

/ 27 Mar 2019

Revealed: dozens of European politicians linked to US ‘incubator for extremism’

Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian ‘fundamentalists’ pour millions of ‘dark money’ into Europe, boosting the far Right

MEPs call for action as openDemocracy analysis reveals ‘shocking’ flows of cash crossing the Atlantic to push ultra-conservative agendas

By Adam Ramsay and Claire Provost

/ 27 Mar 2019

Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian ‘fundamentalists’ pour millions of ‘dark money’ into Europe, boosting the far Right

Revealed: US anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ dramatically increases UK spending

Big-spending Christian Right ‘legal army’, whose influence has soared in America under Trump, is now linked to campaigns against assisted dying in the UK

By Claire Provost and Peter Geoghegan

/ 20 Mar 2019

Revealed: US anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ dramatically increases UK spending

Religious and market fundamentalisms threaten gender equality at UN summit

As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking more progressive positions

By Anne Marie Goetz

/ 13 Mar 2019

Religious and market fundamentalisms threaten gender equality at UN summit

International anti-feminist network organises rally in Spain

Globally connected groups are working together to threaten women’s rights – and they’ve landed in Spain for International Women’s Day

By Sian Norris

/ 8 Mar 2019

International anti-feminist network organises rally in Spain

This new political party in Poland wants to ‘re-Christianise’ Europe

Father Rydzyk controls a media empire accused of amplifying homophobic and sexist views. Now, he’s seen as the driving force behind a new party aiming at the European Parliament elections in May

By Lidia Kurasinska

/ 27 Feb 2019

There’s a backlash against sex education in ‘Feminist Canada’

Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian Right, Ontario’s premier scrapped modern sex education

By Nandini Naira Archer

/ 13 Feb 2019

‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countries

Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality

By Claire Provost and Nandini Naira Archer

/ 12 Feb 2019

We have to stop blaming ‘backward’ culture for FGM and child marriage

These issues have received increased global attention. But simple attacks on ‘tradition and culture’ just fuel the backlash to women’s rights

By Mary W

/ 6 Feb 2019

How Verona became a ‘model city’ for far-Right and ultra-Catholic alliances

Far-Right and religious conservative movements captured the ‘city of love’ years ago. After national successes, they’re aiming at European victories

By Claudia Torrisi

/ 31 Jan 2019