Now available in Spanish and Portuguese, GPAHE’s Project 2025 Goes Global examines how this far-right agenda is expanding well beyond U.S. borders through diplomatic initiatives, transnational advocacy networks, and anti-rights policy agendas. The report has a particular focus on efforts to reshape reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ protections, and democratic institutions across Latin America, where a growing transnational movement inspired by Project 2025 links conservative organizations, Christian nationalist actors, and anti-rights campaigns.
As Project 2025‘s influence expands globally, this GPAHE analysis provides essential context for understanding how these networks are reshaping public policy, democratic governance, and fundamental rights far beyond the United States.
The report, “Project 2025 Goes Global,” examines how the initiative’s Christian nationalist ideology is influencing policies that target democratic institutions, international institutions, and human rights frameworks. While positioned publicly as government reform, the report finds the initiative promotes a governing model rooted in restricting LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive freedom, and gender equality while elevating authoritarian governance.
The report highlights how U.S. foreign policy is being redirected to advance these priorities internationally. A central mechanism is the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a coalition of 40 countries asserting there is no international right to abortion and a woman’s autonomy over her body, and promoting a definition of family limited to heterosexual marriage. The network includes several authoritarian governments with documented human rights abuses.
Across Europe, governments and political networks aligned with the Project 2025 agenda are advancing policies rooted in conservative values, white supremacist rhetoric, and hostility toward LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive freedom where narratives and anti-rights policies have gained traction among political actors in Poland, Slovakia, and Italy, where conservative networks connected to the movement have pushed anti-abortion policies, anti-surrogacy rhetoric, attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, and broader campaigns against what they frame as “gender ideology.”
In Latin America, the influence of the network has surfaced in legal battles over reproductive rights and broader campaigns against gender equality policies. In El Salvador, organizations aligned with the Project 2025 network intervened in an Inter-American Court of Human Rights case to defend the country’s total abortion ban, despite the court’s finding that the government violated a woman’s rights to health and dignity. Similar advocacy networks have been active in debates over abortion and LGBTQ+ rights in countries such as Guatemala and Paraguay, where governments participating in the Geneva Consensus coalition have promoted policies restricting reproductive rights and gender equality initiatives.
“This is not happening in isolation,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of GPAHE. “What we are seeing is the emergence of a coordinated international movement where political leaders, advocacy groups, and ideological networks are working together to dismantle human rights and weaken democratic institutions across multiple regions at the same time. If left unchecked, this network could fundamentally dismantle global human rights protections for years to come.”
“These policies are reshaping global governance in ways that undermine democracy and human rights,” said Wendy Via, co-founder and president of GPAHE. “Project 2025 is building alliances with governments and organizations that share a commitment to restricting women’s rights, LGBTQ+ equality, and pluralistic democracy. The implications extend far beyond the United States and will have devastating consequences for the future of inclusive democracies around the world.”
Despite the scale of the effort, the report documents growing resistance. Civil society groups, journalists, and legal advocates are challenging these policies through lawsuits, investigative reporting, and grassroots mobilization in multiple countries.
The report was made possible through a grant from Horizons Foundation. “The stakes could not be higher,” said Francisco Buchting, Vice President of Horizons Foundation. “Project 2025 represents one of the most serious threats to human rights and freedoms in decades by weaponizing the partnership of Christian nationalism and authoritarianism. Collectively confronting how this Christian-nationalist authoritarian agenda is spreading is essential to defending the hard-earned rights of women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and other groups marginalized and demonized by Project 2025 worldwide.”
Read the full report here in Spanish or Portuguese.
