Increase in domestic violence, lay-offs, care responsibilities, restrictions on domestic and international movement, economic insecurities, psychological burdens - these are just a few of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Asia in the last two years. The gendered nature of COVID-19 impacts is obvious and has sparked large feminist responses in the region.

The year 2020 marks 25 years since the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Beijing. This conference was a turning point: The Beijing Platform for Action, which defined twelve critical areas for the status of women and recommended steps to improve them.

What is meant by "gender ideology"? How does the anti-gender movement argue, and what is its relationship to the EU? The strengthening of the movement in the European Union is illustrated by the example of the conflicts over the Istanbul Convention.

Viktor Orbán is gradually dismantling democratic structures in Hungary. He uses right-wing populist and anti-Islamic rhetoric. What role does family and sexual self-determination play in this?

This short piece focuses on sets of people in India whose bodies and desires are viewed as “deviant” – sexual or gender minorities (LGBTIAQ). Beginning with an overview of the ways people from these communities are viewed, the paper sketches some of the terrain covered by this young and vibrant movement and then touches upon some of the fault lines within the movement before concluding.

The internationally renowned Hungarian academic Andrea Pető, Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, resigned from the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC) after being pressured by the president of the Committee to withdraw a paragraph from her double peer-reviewed and published article entitled “The Illiberal Academic Authority: An Oxymoron?”.