ANALYSIS: Feminist Foreign Policies are Fighting for Their Life

At a recent ministerial conference in Paris on foreign feminist policy, celebration of hard-won gains in the field ran up against a disheartening canon of well-financed threats and efforts against women’s rights and gender policies worldwide.

By Maria Luisa Gambale, Reporter, PassBlue

Photo Credit: Corentin Boulet / Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative. Image Description: At an event during the recent Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy in Paris, Lyric Thompson, Founder of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, left, and Marita Perceval, a Senior fellow with the Collaborative, discussed the hard-fought gains and demoralizing setbacks of women’s rights and gender policies globally.

New York City, New York | “[S]mall strategic windows give some hope to the work of FFP advocates, who say they will continue to seek new ways to keep their work going amid the mounting opposition,” writes PassBlue’s Maria Luisa Gambale, highlighting positive findings from our latest report, Defining Feminist Foreign Policy 2025, against a backdrop of rising anti-gender backlash and declining official development assistance.

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