Global 50/50 at CREA’s reconference 2025

“They tried to bury us; they didn’t know we were seeds.”

This line stayed with us throughout our time at CREA’s reconference 2025 in Kathmandu. It captured something important about feminist work: that even in moments of backlash, creativity takes root, often growing wild and uncontained.

CREA’s reconference is a vibrant gathering of feminist leaders, activists, and thinkers from around the world. It was a vital opportunity to celebrate creativity, courage, and collective action at a moment of global backlash.

Watch the video below to see some highlights from our time at reconference 2025.

Our highlights included:

Running an interactive teach-in, ‘ReWorking Data: Using Data for Gender Justice and Accountability’, using evidence from 200+ global health organisations, 171 justice-sector organisations, and 77 organisations in Nepal. Together, participants explored how data can expose gaps within organisations and be mobilised to advance gender justice.

Two core reflections emerged from the session: first, the flexibility of the Global 50/50 methodology and how it can be used to reveal inequities across a range of issues, sectors and at multiple levels from country to system-level. Second, how data alone is not enough – insights must be actively applied in everyday practice to drive meaningful change and advance gender justice.

Our latest This is Gender exhibition, was on display at the Main Lawn at reconference – inviting audiences to reflect on the politics of visibility and the possibilities of reimagining gender and justice. This is Gender: Photography on the Frontlines of Justice brought together 85 photographs from the TiG collection, forming an 8-minute meditation on how gender is lived, embodied, and contested around the world.

Reconference offered a vital space for reflection, care, solidarity and shared learning. The conversations underscored the power of coming together to cultivate alternative futures and collective change.