Sweden announced that it is practicing ‘feminist foreign policy’ in 2014. France did in March this year. Canada has promoted feminist international development policy since 2017. Foreign policy matters for women’s rights because it shapes whether relations between nations might include support for gender equality. Foreign policy can direct whether trade deals benefit countries with poor women’s rights records, or whether development aid is used to support women’s’ rights ambitions of women’s’ movements in low-income countries. Feminist foreign policy is very new, and still under-defined. Can a country that sells arms to Saudi Arabia be said to be practicing feminist foreign policy? What position should countries professing feminist foreign policy practice take on women’s reproductive and sexual rights?
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