Where does the EU stand when it comes to gender equality in its foreign policy? Where and how can it improve? The EU’s Greens/EFA commissioned CFFP to write a study on exactly this topic. We are delighted to launch the report today – click below to download the full report. Happy reading!
read moreWhat’s a feminist response to COVID-19? We conducted a series of consultations with the governments of Sweden, Canada, France, and Mexico on how they’re approaching their response to COVID. We collated their responses in a series of best „feminist“ state practices. While we hope that all governments across the world find this paper useful, we…
read moreWhat could a Feminist Foreign Policy for Germany look like? Action points for the new government. This manifesto intends to encourage and support those inside the next government to begin the process of systematically changing how Germany’s foreign policy operates, whom it is made for, and whom it is informed by. It introduces what a…
read moreFeminist Voices on the Rise of Authoritarianism and the Anti-Gender Movement An interview series by the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy * The views and opinions expressed in these interviews are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy Right-wing populism and…
read moreAnti-feminist and anti-gender ideologies – and their basis in hostility and hatred towards women and LGBTQI* people are a crucial, yet overlooked element when analysing radicalisation and violent extremism. Anti-gender and anti-feminist ideologies strongly appeal to groups organised around exclusionary principles because they provide language and a framework for the defence of hierarchical structures in…
read moreAnti-gender campaigns and actors are much better funded than human rights and equality advocates. At the same time, key state services and civil society organisations are being actively defunded or structurally excluded from funding opportunities – EU funding, in particular, is practically inaccessible to grassroots feminist and LGBTQI* organising. In a global context of shrinking…
read moreWhat is the transnational anti-gender movement? Who are the actors? How do they operate? What can we do about it? CFFP, financially supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has produced a study to answer these questions and offer a way forward from a policy perspective. We are…
read moreAt CFFP, we believe that Feminist Foreign Policy agendas should be set by feminist civil society and activists. Indeed, as we wrote in our Feminist Foreign Policy Manifesto for Germany, while we recognise that “nation-states remain the ultimate duty-bearers in protecting and advancing human rights and equality… feminist civil society continues to be the key…
read moreThe views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policy of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. When Margot Wallström introduced
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