Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) questions traditional takes on foreign relations and is becoming increasingly widespread in the political world. Find out more about our work to further the dialogue on this topic.
Over the past years, Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) has gained significant ground in policy discourse. Many countries in Europe and worldwide have proclaimed a feminist approach to their external actions.
Why? FFP offers a strong intersectional lens to rethink existing power structures both in global politics and societies. This way, it enables deep processes of self-reflection, the evaluation of external policies and their transformative potential. It strives to fight inequalities and to bring about systemic change through sustainability, participation and the inclusion of everyone.
Discover more about our work around FFP by browsing our publications and activities below.
Together with FEPS, we launched the Feminist Foreign Policy Progressive Voices Collective (FFPPVC) in 2023. The project and builds on a global multistakeholder feminist foreign policy community and aims to advance policy recommendations for both European and national policymakers. The Collective gathers feminist policy experts on a periodic and ad-hoc basis, depending on current events. With particular attention to gender and intersectional considerations, its mission consists of discussing international politics from a feminist lens and helps to gear the ideas and policy recommendations emerging from this project.
Our objective is to:
If you are interested in joining the conversations or would like to know more about the research and collective, please reach out to Agnes Mach, our Policy Officer for Political Education, Participation and Gender Equality: Agnes.Mach(at)fes.de.
In July 2024, Mexico hosted the third Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy, making it the first ministerial conference organised by a country in the Global South. FES Mexico and the FESminismos regional project organised a side-event along with other civil society organisation to discuss FFP from a Latin American perspective, including issues like feminist fiscal justice, reproductive rights or participation mechanisms.
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On 23 and 24 October 2023, we organised a conference on FFP in the context of EU external action together with our project partner FEPS. Prominent speakers such as Benedicta Lasi, Secretary General of Socialist International, and Svenja Schulze, German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, discussed how feminist thinking can be best applied to EU trade and development policies as well as the reconstruction of Ukraine. A recording of the individual sessions is available in this playlist.
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Join our international conference on Feminist Foreign Policy in cooperation with FEPS on 23 October. Register now!
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