In recent years attacks on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) - such as the Global Gag Rule and Poland’s abortion ban - have been growing on both sides of the Atlantic with the number of actors fighting to undo the international achievements for womens’ and sexual minority rights gaining further ground. Across the globe, […]
Social movements like the 350 and Fridays for Future have become strong voices holding administrations accountable for enforcing international agreements such as the Paris Climate Agreement. These agreements are under threat, gendered and racialised inequalities of the climate crisis are too often neglected, both within and between nations, and the COVID-19 pandemic seems to overshadow the climate commitments […]
Along with ICAN and the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, CFFP co-hosted the fourth session of the "Coming of Age of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda" series, which focused on the escalating violence and ongoing kidnappings of women and girls in Nigeria, and the continued targeting of civilians in Yemen. Watch […]
In our understanding, Feminist Foreign Policy - dedicated to human security and putting people’s safety over the safety of states - acknowledges the climate crisis as a security issue and thus commits to fighting all factors directly and indirectly contributing to climate change. Only by striving for intersectional climate justice and accepting how the climate […]
Along with ICAN and the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, CFFP co-hosted the fifth session of the Coming of Age of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda webinar series. With a focus on Myanmar and Palestine, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini MBE was in conversation with Agnes Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International and formerly […]
Ray Acheson, spoke to Co-Founder and CFFP Germany Co-Executive Director, Kristina Lunz, about their brilliant new book ‘Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy’, published on the 6th of June by Rowman & Littlefield. This book tells the story of the anti-nuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to "ban the bomb", with Ray speaking in […]
Watch back our Instagram Live Q&A on Feminist Foreign Policy and Climate-Induced Migration with CFFP’s Junior Researcher, Alex Fox! Watch the Instagram Live here!
During this event, we presented CFFP’s most recent major publication, which comprehensively outlines how a Feminist Foreign Policy can and should be achieved for Germany. Our brilliant speakers included Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Luisa Neubauer, leading climate activist at Fridays For Future Germany; […]
This event kicked off our Summit Season - a full calendar of events leading up to the First Ever Feminist Foreign Policy Summit in April 2022. Our wonderful speakers included Margot Wallström, Former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs; Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Co-Founder and Executive […]
With this event, CFFP continued crucial discussions about race, racism and whiteness in (Feminist) Foreign Policy and opened up space for BIPoC activists, researchers, policymakers and their allies to come together and jointly work on solutions. We brought together various voices from all areas of foreign policy with expertise on issues such as climate justice, […]
There is a lack of knowledge and awareness among policymakers and activists about what the anti-gender movement is, how it operates, the risks it poses and how to effectively develop strategies to counter it - in order to defend and advance human rights for all. In December 2021, CFFP hosted an online conference to situate […]
This invitation-only online expert roundtable discussed the impact of so-called anti-gender actors on multilateral fora: how they impact agenda-setting and negotiations, how issues of gender and LGBTQI* rights are instrumentalised, and what this means for the adoption and implementation of treaties, alliance-building, polarisation, and deadlock.