Dear Foreign Secretary,
We’re writing to ask you not to forget the millions of women and girls around the world who are at risk of having their rights stripped away.
Generation by generation, women and girls have slowly paved the way towards a fairer world for everyone. We know there is still much more to do. But today, because of that progress more girls are in education, fewer women die giving birth, women are leading nations and taking their place in parliaments, negotiating peace and shaping responses to the climate emergency.
But that progress is now under threat. Women’s freedoms are being restricted, access to healthcare and education taken away, funding and research targeted to their needs has been cut. History shows us that those who are the last to achieve their rights are the first to lose them. We cannot let women’s rights be rolled back.
Your government can and must do something about this. Will you:
- Protect funding for gender equality and women’s rights from government cuts.
- Prevent women's rights from going backwards in international and domestic agreements.
- Push for lasting change that makes our systems fairer for everyone and drives real equality for women and girls.
Progress on gender equality is stalling. Next year is your opportunity to turn things around. True leadership is shown not only in how we move forward to a better world, but in who we refuse to abandon along the way.
Yours sincerely,