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Social movements

Get to know ALIGN’s work on social movements and their impact on gender norms. Women and LGBTQI+ activists are mobilising for change all over the world, and our evidence points to the transformative way their activism is renegotiating social relations and demanding legal reforms.

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Social movements map

This interactive map features leading organisations and feminist collectives from all over the world that are acting to promote gender norm change.

Report

23 November 2021

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Mobilising for change: how women's social movements are transforming gender norms
Authors: Diana Jiménez Thomas Rodriguez, Caroline Harper, Rachel George

Briefing paper

7 February 2022

Cover of briefing paper
Global feminist experiences of mobilising for norm change
Authors: Carmen Leon-Himmelstine, Rachel George, Emilie Tant, Caroline Harper

Report

7 March 2022

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Hashtags, memes and selfies: can social media and online activism shift gender norms?
Authors: Katie Washington, Rachel Marcus

Biblio/Lit. review

31 January 2022

Cover of report
Women’s mobilisation and gender norm change
Authors: Diana Jiménez Thomas Rodriguez, Rachel George
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Gender norms and social media

Social movements research from the ALIGN community

Briefing paper

6 November 2023

Cover of paper
Social norms, gender and development: A review of research and practice
Authors: Tara Patricia Cookson, Lorena Fuentes, Maria Klara Kuss, Jennifer Bitterly

Blog

16 August 2023

Women Deliver plenary on the anti-rights movement, Kigali. Credit: Women Deliver
Lessons on backlash from Women Deliver: tackling the enemy in the room
Author: Ayesha Khan

Briefing paper

29 November 2022

First page of paper
Feminist foreign policy: stronger action needed to resource feminist movements
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