(Corentin Boulet / FFP Collaborative Panorama Global) |
By Maria Luisa Gambale | At a recent ministerial conference in Paris on foreign feminist policy, celebration of hard-won gains in the field ran up against a disheartening canon of well-financed threats and efforts against women’s rights and gender policies worldwide.
The state of the movement is detailed painstakingly in a new 240-page report organized by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, a space for feminists working across government, civil society and philanthropy to advance feminist foreign policy. The report was released at an event on the sidelines of the fourth ministerial conference, held this year in Paris from Oct. 22 to 23.
The collaborative has been producing a report on feminist foreign policy, or FFP, biennially since 2021; it was preceded by a paper issued in 2020 on the nature of feminist foreign policy and its core components, drawing on the few examples that existed then.
Lyric Thompson, the founder of the collaborative, said in the new report, “With the renouncement of feminist foreign policies in Sweden, Argentina, the Netherlands and Germany, I thought this year’s report might be an obituary for this now decade-old field.”
But despite such setbacks in the range of countries around the world, the authors found some room for determined optimism. (Click here to read more) |
