Feminist Foreign Politics

The current Gender Equality Newsletter of the IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) campaigns to end violence against women journalists and reports on gender equality politics and -projects, as well as gender safety trainings worldwide.

On 10-13 June 2014 the largest Global Summit ever brought together to End Sexual Violence in Conflict will be held at ExCel London. The Foreign Secretary and Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, will co-chair the gathering, "with a view to creating irreversible momentum against sexual violence in conflict and practical action that impacts those on the ground."

The 21st century has inherited the unfinished agenda of globalising democracy in a more vibrant form. After 65 years of freedom and democracy, India’s democratic structures continue to be restricted by their patriarchal foundations.

On January 6, 2014 a Charter was signed by more than 60 Syrian women from a number of Syrian districts and governorates in collaboration with a group of independent Syrian women representing all spectrums of Syrian society and Syrian Women Forum for Peace.

Two young women, in India and in South Africa, were brutally gang-raped and murdered: "Nirbhaya" in New Delhi (16th Dec, 2012), and Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp, in the Western Cape, South Africa (2nd Feb, 2013). Their cases received unprecedented attention, nationally and internationally.

The Afghan Women's Network (AWN) has launched the "women visioning 2024" paper. It is a very personal account of achievements women have made over the last decade and they have lined out how the transformation decade beyond 2014 should look like for Afghan women.

This is a publication of materials presented by gender researchers and activists at the Second International Gender Workshop Overcoming Gender Backlash: Experiences of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Poland, organized and hosted by Heinrich Boell Foundation office in Kyiv in October 2013.  

In January a two-day meeting was held in Geneva to support women’s participation and voice in the Syrian peace process.