jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThis short essay introduces the forum on ‛Women's Rights as Human Rights: Global Contestations over the Longue Durée’. It briefly outlines the state of the field, a new agenda for research in the area and the topics of the articles in the forum. The forum derives from a symposium on the same topic sponsored by jats:italicGender & History</jats:italic> and held at the University of Sheffield in spring 2022.</jats:p>