Beijing +30
Volume 33, Issue 3 | November 2025
We are pleased to present to you G&D's November 2025 special issue titled 'Beijing +30'.
This special issue is guest edited by Lina Abou-Habib, Deniz Alca, and Hashem Hashem, who have participated and led feminist activism and knowledge generation for decades. Articles in the issue span multiple regions and countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, India, Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Syria, Uganda, as well as regional perspectives from Latin America and North Africa.
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Below, you can find free access to the Introduction, four articles, and the Resources and Book Reviews sections of the issue.
For free access to all of the articles, visit the Oxfam Policy & Practice website and search using the article title.
Articles
Beijing +30
Lina Abou-Habib, Deniz Alca, Hashem Hashem, Shivani Satija, Anandita Ghosh
The fight for visibility of diverse women with diverse disabilities throughout the three decades since the Beijing Conference
Pratima Gurung & Suzette Mitchell
‘We are citizens too’: LGBTQIA+ claims for human rights in postwar Guatemala
Julia Hartviksen
Building feminist just futures: strategies to end gender-based violence
Suneeta Dhar & Anuradha Kapoor
The radical political imagination of Black Brazilian women: models of resistancey
Isadora Lopes Harvey & Janja Araujo
Thirty years on: macroeconomic trajectory and the challenge of a feminist fiscal policy for Latin America
Verónica Serafini Geoghegan, Patricia Miranda & Daniela Berdeja
Queering Beijing+30 in the digital age: addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence against Queer communities in South Asia by One Future Collective
Kuhoo Tiwari, Anvita Walia & Mayank Kamboj
Bridging the gender gap in the digital age: the role of digital governance in advancing feminist futures post-Beijing+30
Mercy Erhi Makpor
From policy to practice: 30 years of the Beijing Declaration – assessing the realities of refugee women in Greece
Rippy Das
The future of caregiving is shared: advancing a global agenda that calls men into care
Mara Bolis, Gary Barker, Laura Rawlings, Marc Grau-Grau & Urvashi Sahni
Thirty years after the Beijing Platform for Action: experiences of institutionalisation, emerging generations of feminists, the rise of global anti-rights trends, and contemporary fault lines
Lina Abou-Habib
Resources
Here you can find additional materials related to the issue. These are compiled by Anandita Ghosh.
Book Reviews
Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights, edited by Rebecca Adami and Dan Plesch. Reviewed by Deniz Alca
Transformative Feminist Mobilization in the Arab Region: A Decade of Activism, by Tania N. Haddad, Lina Abou-Habib and Tracy Sakr. Reviewed by Thomas McGee
Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring by Shirin Rai. Reviewed by Shivani Satija