The backlash against women's rights is advancing — and we must push forward!
Generations of women fought for the rights we have today. But progress isn’t always permanent. For hundreds of thousands of women worldwide, rights are being rolled back – often in the worst possible ways.
Years of progress are being undone. Protections around work and reproductive rights are being removed. Women’s rights are under threat.
As the backlash grows, so must our pushback.
Your gift can give women’s movements the resources and momentum they need to defend hard-won rights and create lasting change.
Defending rights
Kleidianny’s mother taught her to break coconuts as a child. She also taught her to defend them.
Now, Kleidianny brings over 20 years of expertise to leading the Association of Rural Quilombola Women Workers and Babaçu Coconut Breakers of São Luis Gonzaga. They're a group of 80 powerful women defending their land and livelihood.
The coconut breakers helped secure the Free Babassu Law, protecting their right to collect coconuts and restricting the felling of the trees. It was a hard-won victory. But the movement’s work is far from done:
We still have to fight the landowners, thefences, the felling of palm trees, the fires that are devouring our babassu trees.”
Kleidianny and her fellow coconut breakers know more than anyone what their movement needs. They’re already organising, sharing their expertise and pushing those in power to act. Your gift is vital to keep this momentum up.
Kleidianny, a quilombola women’s rights leader in Brazil, defends her community’s land, livelihoods and babassu palm trees alongside 80 women coconut breakers.
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Resisting the rollback of women’s rights is just one part of ActionAid’s work. A share of the funds raised will support the projects featured, with the remainder used where it’s needed most to support ActionAid’s charitable purposes.
Page updated 23 September 2026