<p class="title">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said gender equality is "under attack," and warned of declining women's rights, at a major conference on the subject.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Progress can backslide. We're seeing it happen. Gender equality is under attack. And I can only imagine how hard it is to be a feminist on the frontlines," he said in an opening address to the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Individuals and interest groups are trying to roll back women's rights," Trudeau said without giving names.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He warned that "politicians are giving into the pressure, shamefully campaigning to undo women's hard-won victories."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three-day Vancouver conference has brought together 8,000 participants including leaders, activists, academics and journalists from 150 countries to discuss gender equality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trudeau has made the issue a priority of his government, which faces parliamentary elections in October. After taking office in 2015 he formed a cabinet with equal numbers of male and female ministers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier on Monday, Trudeau attended the unveiling of a report that concluded that perhaps thousands of indigenous women were victims of endemic violence that amounted to "genocide." The day before, his government announced the funding of Can$300 million (US $223 million) for women's rights organizations in Canada and overseas.</p>
<p class="title">Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said gender equality is "under attack," and warned of declining women's rights, at a major conference on the subject.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Progress can backslide. We're seeing it happen. Gender equality is under attack. And I can only imagine how hard it is to be a feminist on the frontlines," he said in an opening address to the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Individuals and interest groups are trying to roll back women's rights," Trudeau said without giving names.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He warned that "politicians are giving into the pressure, shamefully campaigning to undo women's hard-won victories."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three-day Vancouver conference has brought together 8,000 participants including leaders, activists, academics and journalists from 150 countries to discuss gender equality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trudeau has made the issue a priority of his government, which faces parliamentary elections in October. After taking office in 2015 he formed a cabinet with equal numbers of male and female ministers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier on Monday, Trudeau attended the unveiling of a report that concluded that perhaps thousands of indigenous women were victims of endemic violence that amounted to "genocide." The day before, his government announced the funding of Can$300 million (US $223 million) for women's rights organizations in Canada and overseas.</p>