Feminist Foreign Policy
- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • October 1, 2022
VIENNA — Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister, clinched her reputation in 2014 for boldly coining the concept of the world’s first “feminist foreign policy.” While having left active politics only five years later, in 2019, she remains…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Women
- Yasmine Ergas
- • March 9, 2022
Mothers appeal to mothers. Who doesn’t understand the power of women speaking to women about fear for their children? We listen as young women — parliamentarians, government ministers — who are staying to defend their country and denounce the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Mikaela Conley
- • February 14, 2022
BERLIN — The number of countries declaring they are carrying out a feminist foreign policy is quickly increasing throughout the world, with Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Luxembourg, Libya and now Germany joining Sweden’s pioneering concept, declaring that the countries’…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 29, 2021
Mexico and France are hosting a United Nations forum that aims to accelerate the agenda laid out 26 years ago at the landmark Beijing women’s conference: securing equal rights and equal opportunities for half the population of the world….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • November 20, 2019
African summits may be in vogue worldwide, and Russia’s recent summit in Sochi in late October was no exception. A PassBlue correspondent, Joe Penney, traveled to the Black Sea resort to report on President Vladimir Putin’s pitch to African…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, US Foreign Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 4, 2019
Margot Wallstrom, as Sweden’s newly appointed foreign minister, announced in 2014 that her priority would be the creation of the world’s first feminist foreign policy. The concept left some in her diplomatic corps “gasping for air,” she said. Now,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, US Foreign Relations, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 10, 2019
Twenty-four years ago, the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, yielded a bold declaration from 189 countries calling for improving the rights of women across the globe. Now, plans to mark the 25th anniversary of Beijing are…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 7, 2019
More than 10,000 people will soon converge on the United Nations for its annual Commission on the Status of Women conference, providing a unique forum to gauge progress and to press for the rights of women and marginalized populations…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Elizabeth Walsh
- • January 25, 2018
PARIS — Women outnumber men in international affairs graduate programs across the world and are increasingly demanding that curriculums reflect feminist thinking and include gender mainstreaming. Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in New York, Sciences…
- Categories: Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 4, 2016
Two young women in London are taking on what they call the elitist nature of foreign policy and turning it toward a more feminist approach that could play out in many different pathways, said Marissa Conway, a founder of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Women
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