2024: Event Recaps
Diálogos sobre política exterior feminista
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Centering Gender Equality, Catalyzing Change: A Gender-Transformative Financing for Development Agenda
There is growing evidence of the positive impact that feminist and gender-transformative approaches have on overcoming pressing global challenges. This side event to the 2nd Preparatory Meeting of the UN Financing for Development Conference seeks to bridge the gap between gender equality and finance, focusing on the intersection of these two realms and exploring how financial decision-making, funding mechanisms, and resource distribution can advance gender justice.
Advancing the Beijing Platform for Action through Feminist Foreign Policy: Insights from global and regional dialogues tailored to the Asia and the Pacific Region
Feminist foreign policy (FFP) provides an exciting framework to advance implementation of the Platform for Action. This side event will share lessons from global dialogues and regional processes in order to further discussions on a regionally contextualized feminist foreign policy approach for Asia and the Pacific region.
Press Briefing: Expert Panel to Address the Future of Feminist Foreign Policy Amid Critical Global Events
About the Event
As the world faces pivotal moments this fall — with the United Nations General Assembly, the United States presidential election, and COP29 on the horizon — the global movement advancing feminist foreign policies (FFP) is at a critical juncture. The Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative (the 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 panelists will discuss the current state of FFP both in the U.S. and globally. 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. Following the media briefing, the discussion will be opened up for questions.
Speakers
Lyric Thompson, Founder and CEO, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative (Moderator)
Bridget Burns, Executive Director, Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Elmira Bayrasli, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Interruptrr
Foteini Papagioti, Deputy Director of Policy & Advocacy, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Opportunities to Advance Feminist Foreign Policy
About the Event
Feminist foreign policy provides a critical framework to advance peace and gender equality worldwide. At this pivotal moment, this panel of experts will 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.
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Organizers
Women’s Funding Network
Justice for Migrant Women
Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Speakers
Elizabeth Barajas-Román, President and CEO, Women’s Funding Network (moderator)
Mónica Ramirez, Founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women
Spogmay Ahmed, Senior Policy Advisor, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative
Kavita Ramdas, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Robert Bosch Academy
Inclusive Peacebuilding: Embracing Women's Leadership
When women participate in mass movements, those movements are more likely to succeed and lead to more equitable, representative democracy. This conversation, held at Women Moving Millions’ 2024 Annual Summit, will explore how women are actively playing a role today in building peace and security and how their efforts might be replicated in other conflict-ridden regions.
Feminist Foreign Policy as a Key Response to the Multiple Challenges Facing Latin America and the Caribbean
Convened by the Governments of Colombia, Chile, Brazil and Mexico, with the support of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, this CSW side event will bring together diverse stakeholders to discuss progress, lessons learned and good practices in Latin American and Caribbean countries regarding feminist foreign policy.
Framing Debt in the Discourse of Feminist Foreign Policy: Perspectives from the Global South
The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative and partners have been organizing a series of consultations on how debt can and should be addressed as a FFP priority. In this event, the organizers will present the draft paper, invite experts to a panel discussion and solicit inputs from the audience.
Beyond the Concept: Feminist Foreign Policy in Action
About the Event
Plans for a feminist foreign policy have been put in place by several countries over the past decade. However, international statistics tell us that the inclusion of women in international decision-making and negotiation mechanisms is often insufficient: in 2022, women ambassadors average only 21.6% in the world's 40 largest economies (AGDA Women in Diplomacy Index 2022). Ensuring that women play a key role in discussions and decision-making processes in the different fields of diplomacy could truly take into account women's voices and rights and make international governance more inclusive.
At the 2022 Paris Peace Forum, held in Paris, France from November 11-22, speakers in this session presented the assets and outcomes that a sustainable feminist foreign policy could ensure while making diplomacy more effective and legitimate. In this spirit, they explored strategies to move from theory to practical realization of feminist foreign policies and to promote their articulation, promotion and implementation, through examples of good practices from different regions of the world.
Speakers
Meredith Preston McGhie, Secretary General, Global Center for Pluralism
Anisha Chugh, Executive Director, Women’s Fund Asia
Eunice Musiime, Executive Director, Akina Mama wa Afrika
Hannah Neumann, Initiator, Member of the European Parliament, #SHEcurity
Lyric Thompson, Vice President of Policy, Advocacy and Strategy, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Ambika Vishwanath, Founder Director, Kubernein Initiative
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO Founder, Women At The Table