In this AFFPC issues paper, Dr. Farkhondeh Akbari and Professor Jacqui True make the case that governments employing a feminist foreign policy approach must use the term “gender apartheid” to signal their condemnation in the strongest terms. 

In this Issues Paper, Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer explore the idea of a feminist economy of wellbeing and how such an economy might be measured.

This position paper outlines IWDA’s support for the full decriminalisation of sex work.

This paper examines the added value of a Feminist Foreign Policy approach to peacebuilding in the Pacific by looking at the case of Australia and Solomon Islands.

This paper highlights the potential for individual-level, gender-sensitive and multi-dimensional measurement of poverty to make visible the gendered and intersectional nuances of poverty.

This paper examines how a human rights–based approach and feminist foreign policy (FFP) align.

Why is a feminist foreign policy needed for Australia and its aid program?

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 unraveled significant achievements of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in Afghanistan over the last two decades.

The Indo-Pacific as a strategic construct has grown in prominence in global geopolitical discourse, especially over the last five years

Feminist foreign policy provides a lens through which we can see climate action as a shared priority, a human security issue, and one which is central to Australia’s relationships with the region.