Dhaka, March 9 -- Women's rights have regressed in one-fourth of the world's countries in the last year in the face of issues ranging from weakened democratic institutions, growing conflicts, humanitarian crises and climate change, a UN Women report said on Thursday.The report came ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, and marks 30 years of work after the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, a global conference on women's rights where 189 countries endorsed an agreement outlining the steps needed to achieve gender equality."The weakening of democratic institutions has gone hand-in-hand with backlash on gender equality," the UN Women report said. "Anti-rights actors are actively undermining long-standing consensus on key issues," it ...