We are on a slippery slope of exclusion, and it is important to take immediate measures to change direction.

The beginning of 2017 has been challenging for activists around the world.

Many women activists, for example, were unable to attend this year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) in New York.

And in the middle of CSW61, UN Security Staff removed women NGOs from the building after 6pm while negotiations on the draft agreed conclusions continued late into the night.