We are proud to present and promote a vital new analysis from our partners at Dads Matter. Our coalition is founded on the principle that true equality can only be achieved through evidence-based policy and a commitment to universal human rights for all genders. It is for this reason that we were deeply disturbed by the UN Special Rapporteur’s recent report on violence (A/HRC/59/47), a document that abandons these principles in favour of a divisive and ideologically driven narrative. The report promotes a dangerous fiction that pits men and women against each other, erases male victims, and undermines the very fabric of the family unit. In response, Dads Matter has produced a clear, factual, and comprehensive deconstruction of the Special Rapporteur’s flawed report, an analysis we believe is essential reading for every policymaker, journalist, and citizen concerned with genuine justice.
The following report by Dads Matter is more than a rebuttal; it is a meticulous defense of factual reality. It exposes the intellectual corruption at the heart of the UN report by fact-checking its misleading statistics, revealing its reliance on a radical activist echo chamber, and highlighting its laundering of fringe online talking points into official policy recommendations. Most importantly, it gives a voice to the millions of male victims who are not only ignored by the Special Rapporteur but are rendered statistically invisible by the very government frameworks she appears to endorse. Aequitas fully endorses this work and urges you to share it widely. It is a necessary and powerful corrective that champions a future free from violence for everyone, without exception.