Young Urban Women's Movement

This year's Global Partnerships Conference was centred around the theme of 'shifting power', focusing on sustainable and innovative finance, along with technology and AI.

Activists from Young Urban Women, an ActionAid programme that addresses young women’s economic rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights, have shared their reflections about what was (and wasn't) being achieved at the conference. 

Find out about the striking relationship between gender-based violence and economic policy making – in particular, the links between austerity and violence.