Over the past decade, a growing trend has emerged, embraced by twelve countries and various international organizations, to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the respect for the human rights of women and girls in all their diversity, through a feminist approach to foreign policy and international development cooperation. This trend continues to expand and deepen.
This document analyzes the emergence and evolution of feminist foreign policy and feminist international development cooperation in twelve countries, with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean and their significant contribution to the Regional Gender Agenda, drawing on the history of feminist contributions to peace, multilateralism, and intergovernmental agreements. It also highlights the need to move from formal to substantive equality through a rights based strategy focused on resources, representation, the assessment of realities, research, resistance, and results.
The study provides a historical analysis, identifies promising practices, and offers guidance for the implementation of policies that place equality and the sustainability of life and the planet at the center of foreign policy and international cooperation agendas. In doing so, it offers a hopeful perspective toward a care centered society and sustainable development with gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean.
