Feminist Foreign Policy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
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Summary
The realization of gender equality across the world can only be achieved if sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are guaranteed to everyone, everywhere. Efforts to advance gender equality, development, democracy, and peace and security through a Feminist Foreign Policy must involve a robust commitment to prioritize SRHR and support it politically and financially.
To be truly feminist, any Feminist Foreign Policy must aim to benefit all women and girls, in all their diversity, and advance respect for the full panoply of their human rights, including SRHR. Initiatives presented as a Feminist Foreign Policy that do not center issues of bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, and intersectionality are counterproductive, and will ultimately fail to make a meaningful contribution to advancing gender equality, development, peace and security, and respect for human rights and the rule of law.
It is critical that SRHR be explicitly integrated as a key priority into any Feminist Foreign Policy.
Our Fact Sheet on Feminist Foreign Policy and SRHR provides 13 concrete recommendations for commitments and actions on SRHR that should form part of any meaningful Feminist Foreign Policy.
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