Partnering for People, Peace and Planet

October 2024 || Our Senior Fellow, Beth Woroniuk, joined other women’s rights and gender equality-seeking activists, trade unions and independent experts in the collaborative drafting of this parallel report which assesses Canada’s progress in meeting the goals for gender equality set out in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Read her co-authored chapter, “Women and Canada’s Foreign Policy,” on page 135.

October 2024 || Our Senior Fellow, Beth Woroniuk, joins Girls’ Globe’s Julia Wiklander for an episode of the Hey Changemaker! podcast. Beth shares how she’s seeing the current state of the global movement for feminist financing and feminist foreign policies, along with her advice for young feminists moving into the advocacy space today.

September 2024 || On the margins of the UNGA79 High-Level Week, the Ministers of the Feminist Foreign Policy Plus Group (FFP+) met, for the third time in this context, with the purpose of strengthening and renewing their political commitments to feminist foreign policies. The FFP+ invited Ministers from other Member States and civil society organizations, including the Feminist Foreign Policy, that are committed to the advancement of gender equality.

September 2024 || “The hope that I have for feminist foreign policy is that the diversification and growth of this cohort could be what we need to break up some of the regional blocks that have constrained progress.” In her interview with Bill Wanlund of The Public Diplomacy Council of America, our Founder and CEO, Lyric Thompson, discusses feminist foreign policy, its theory of change and opportunities for impact.

September 2024 || The Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative invites journalists to join our virtual press briefing that will include panelists from the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Interruptrr and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). The briefing will provide journalists with expert insights on how FFP governments are shaping and engaging in these three defining events and what this could mean for the future of multilateral engagement.

September 2024 || At this pivotal moment, our Senior Policy Adviosr, Spogmay Ahmed, joins a panel of experts to discuss feminist foreign policy’s growing influence on global geopolitics, bipartisan opportunities for U.S. political leaders to advance its worldwide impact and how a feminist foreign policy agenda can help the feminist philanthropy movement and work of local women’s funds in the U.S.

Agosto de 2024 || La presidenta de Feministas Sin Fronteras [y Becaria Senior del Colaborativo de Política Exterior Feminista] conversa sobre la denuncia de violencia de género al expresidente Fernández y las políticas de Milei en su país. “Su libertad es la individualismo extremo”, dice.

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August 2024 || In this newsletter, we share our takeaways from the III Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy, the aspirations of our inaugural cohort of Senior Fellows and the latest press hits from Collaborative staff.

August 2024 || Our Senior Fellows, Beth Woroniuk and Marita Perceval, join WRIR Richmond’s Carol Olson and Melissa Vaughn for an episode of the Women & Politics Show. Woroniuk and Perceval share what brings them to the Visiting Fellows Program, along with their objectives for their fellowship.

August 2024 || Will the election of Mexico's first woman president improve the odds of its feminist foreign policy? In her latest piece for Foreign Policy magazine, our Founder and CEO, Lyric Thompson, weighs in.

August 2024 || How are we overcoming the biggest challenges to more people, peace and planet-centered approaches to foreign policy? Our Founder and CEO, Lyric Thompson, and our Senior Fellows, Marita Perceval and Beth Woroniuk, discuss how our Visiting Fellows Program is rising to the occasion with Forbes.

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July 2024 || We have launched a Visiting Fellows Program to provide a platform for senior leaders in feminist foreign policy at a time when these policies are being rolled back.

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June 2024 || Following the historic election of Mexico’s first female president, the Government of Mexico will welcome the III Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy.

June 2024 || Will the United States adopt a feminist foreign policy and what would that mean? Our CEO, Lyric Thompson, joins other feminist movement leaders for this episode of Inkstick Media’s Things That Go Boom podcast.

March 2023 || What is the feminist foreign policy movement learning from feminist leaders in government and civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean? Dive into progress, lessons learned and good practices in Colombia, Chile, Brazil and Mexico with live tweet coverage (Eng/Esp), event recordings and more.

September 2023 || From Washington to Buenos Aires, the risk looms large that these hard-fought, forward-looking policies can easily be abandoned—and with them, hopes for better protection of people, peace and planet. Our CEO, Lyric Thompson, writes for the New York Thompson about a new coalition emerging at the UN that is doing what it can, where it can, while it can.