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Weronika Strzyżyńska and Ruchi Kumar in Kigali

‘Gut-churning’: anger as Hungarian president addresses major women’s rights conference

Katalin Novák speaks at the opening of the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday.
Katalin Novák speaks at the opening of the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, on Monday. Photograph: Courtesy of Rwanda government

Some leading delegates at a women’s rights conference in Rwanda have expressed shock at the appearance there of the Hungarian president, an anti-abortionist criticised for an anti-equality stance.

Katalin Novák, an important player in the international “anti-gender movement”, was invited by the Rwandan government to speak at the Women Deliver conference in Kigali this week, where reproductive rights is one of the areas under discussion.

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