Defining Feminist Foreign Policy: The 2023 Edition

The 2023 edition of Defining Feminist Foreign Policy provides a global overview of developments in the feminist foreign policy field since the last edition was published in 2021. It reviews the policies and progress of 16 governments: in Europe, these span France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Slovenia and Sweden, in the Americas, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, Mongolia in Central Asia, Liberia in West Africa and Libya in the Middle East.

We present both a summary of the current status of efforts by each government, as well as a subsequent analysis of those efforts organized around the five illustrative measures of success outlined in our Feminist Foreign Policy: A Framework document: (1) rights, (2) resources, (3) representation, (4) research and reporting and (5) reach.

This paper is, like all of our work, a collective effort. We are grateful to the many civil society and government partners in the Global Partner Network for Feminist Foreign Policy for their contributions—be it through research and publications, the sharing of information and promising practices, review of drafts and reflection on common themes, achievements, challenges and key gaps.