Germany announces new 'feminist foreign policy'

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BERLIN — Germany's centre-left government on Wednesday (March 1) announced new feminist guidelines to shape its diplomacy and development work including the creation of a new role for an 'ambassador for feminist foreign policy'. Germany will lobby to ensure women's concerns are more in focus worldwide, that women are better represented and that the country's generous development funds are allocated...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Svenja Schulze walk to give a statement, in Berlin, Germany March 1, 2023.BERLIN — Germany's centre-left government on Wednesday announced new feminist guidelines to shape its diplomacy and development work including the creation of a new role for an "ambassador for feminist foreign policy".

Such a policy has been embraced in recent years by other countries like Canada, France, Mexico and Spain — although Sweden abandoned it last year after a shift to a right-wing government. Baerbock has already made a point on her trips abroad to address gender issues such as sexual violence during the conflict in Ukraine and abortion in the US.

Baerbock addressed those concerns in her speech on Wednesday presenting the guidelines, saying they were not a "missionary pamphlet with which we naively want to improve the world" and that Germany had much to learn from other countries.Going forward, at least eight per cent of Germany's 12 billion euros of development funds will go to projects with gender equality as their main goal, while 85 per cent must have it as their secondary goal, the development ministry announced.

 

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