Partnering for People, Peace and Planet

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December 2024 || Although we wind down 2024 far from our collective vision of peace, equality and planetary integrity, we at the Collaborative are nonetheless closing out the year as we began it: with gratitude. Read our December 2024 newsletter and catch up with the latest from the Collaborative, our Senior Fellows and our partners.

December 2024 || This side event at the second Preparatory Committee Session for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development bridged the gap between gender equality and finance, exploring how financial decision-making, funding mechanisms and resource distribution can advance gender justice.

November 2024 || Feminist foreign policy provides an exciting framework to advance implementation of the Platform for Action. This side event at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Beijing +30 shared lessons from global dialogues and regional processes to advance discussions on a regionally-contextualized feminist foreign policy approach for Asia and the Pacific region.

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 fight against all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and other key priorities.

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 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 to receive expert insights on how FFP governments are shaping and engaging in the UN General Assembly, COP 29 and discussions around the U.S. Elections and what this could mean for the future of multilateral engagement.

September 2024 || Our Senior Policy Advisor, Spogmay Ahmed, joined other experts to discuss feminist foreign policy’s growing influence on geopolitics 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.

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.

June 2024 || Despite exponential growth in the adoption of feminist foreign policies globally over the last decade, the rise of right-wing governments in historically progressive countries has threatened these efforts and endangered women’s rights. The Visiting Fellows Program brings together some of the world’s most brilliant minds in this field to research, convene, reflect and engage on today’s key challenges and investigate potential solutions.

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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.

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.