Thirty years after thousands of women activists and state representatives met in Beijing to make gender equality a priority at all levels and make states accountable through national and international institutional mechanisms, the BPfA remains more significant than ever.

The contributions in this Issue highlight the voices of many groups that were left out of the BPfA and under-represented themes, such as unpaid care economies and migration, Queer and Transgender rights, digital surveillance, and ecological collapse. They urge for a deeper and more reflective engagement of these issues with the BPfA while calling for strengthening trans-regional solidarity to counter the adversarial forces that are organising to disrupt gender justice everywhere.