Press release - March 10, 2025
Independent scientific research, academic freedom and the fight against discrimination must remain public policy priorities.
Since the election of Donald Trump last November in the United States, we have been witnessing, in spite of ourselves, a multiplication of threats to feminist struggles, to diversity and democracy: attacks on women's rights, misogynist rhetoric, questioning of abortion rights, weakening of actions against sexual violence, questioning of anti-discrimination policies, racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric and behavior, anti-immigration rhetoric, regression of LGBTQI+ rights, reduction of protections and essential aid for people with disabilities, attacks on science and the university, delegitimization of scientific research and a policy of systematic disinformation, particularly on climate, public health and the humanities and social sciences, cuts in funding, threats to universities, dismissals, persecution and censorship, opposition to training programs, etc.
This policy, based on targeted budget cuts and the elimination of all EDI (Equality Diversity Inclusion) programs, has the aim and effect of undermining many advances in women's and minority rights, social rights, diversity and inclusion, reinforcing inequalities and limiting actions to combat discrimination.
At the same time, attacks on scientists aim to undermine the intellectual and factual foundations of environmental, feminist and anti-racist struggles.
We reaffirm the need to mobilize beyond March 7, to denounce and resist these attempts at destabilization, reaffirming our attachment to academic freedom. To defend the promotion of diversity, equality and inclusion, through the support of independent research that supports the construction and transmission of knowledge.