“Being aware and understanding this ultra-conservative movement is essential for those who want to safeguard a modern, inclusive and tolerant Europe. The carefully orchestrated strategy is producing concrete results, such as the 2020 de facto ban on access to safe abortion in Poland, bans on equal marriage in several Central European countries and over a dozen comparable acts at national level and in European institutions aiming to limit women’s and LGBTI rights.Īustrian MP Petra Bayr, chair of the equality committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said: The picture that emerges is of a transnational community of likeminded religious extremists and related alt- and far-right actors making strategic funding decisions across international borders. The report examines 54 anti-gender funding actors active in Europe as well as the main channels through which the religious extremists generate funding and how it circulates. This report attempts to fill this gap by painting a transnational picture of the clandestine funding system which supports the anti-gender actors’ deliberate strategy to roll back human rights in Europe. While the rise of ultra-conservatism in Europe has been apparent for several years, precisely how these actors are organising, fundraising and attempting to exert influence across national borders or issue areas has not been clear. Report researched and written by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF).īRUSSELS - A new report released today reveals the funding system which supports the anti-gender actors’ efforts to roll back human rights in Europe.Links to anti-gay marriage movements in Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Finland, Italy, Slovakia and Romania.Links to anti-abortion initiatives in France, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and at EU level.Largest European-based anti-gender funders include actors in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Poland.Annual anti-gender spending in Europe has increased by a factor of four starting from USD22.2 million in 2009 to reach USD96 million in 2018.Report identifies USD707.2 million in anti-gender funding over the 2009–2018 period originating from the United States, the Russian Federation and Europe.New report exposes the money behind the network intent on overturning laws related to sexuality and reproduction in Europe
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