Words & Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+30 Review Process - 2025 update

Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, legal inequality persists across the world. Words & Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing+30 Review Process, the sixth edition in our Words & Deeds series that began in 1999, exposes that governments have failed to repeal or amend sex-discriminatory laws and highlights the urgent reforms needed to achieve full legal equality for women and girls.

The report includes:

• An analysis of legal progress and setbacks since the fifth edition in 2020
• Country-specific examples of sex-discriminatory laws still in force
• Global trends in the rollback of women’s rights, including reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ protections
• Examples of the impact of legal inequality on women’s lives
• A Call to Action for governments, international bodies, and civil society on urgent legal reforms

Learn more here.