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‘Home-grown’ European funding for religious extremism overshadows foreign cash

New research from the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights reveals $700m spent on ‘anti-gender’ activities since 2009

‘Home-grown’ European funding for religious extremism overshadows foreign cash
Anti-abortion demonstrators on a March for Life protest in Rome, Italy, 2018 | Giuseppe Ciccia / Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved
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It’s not Russian, or American. The biggest flows of cash for campaigns against the rights of women and LGBT people across Europe actually come from the continent itself, despite its reputation as the world’s ‘most progressive’ place to live.

This is the key finding of new research released today by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), which brings together politicians across the continent and from a range of different parties.