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Defining Sweden's feminist foreign policy

Sweden’s feminist government wants to use its foreign policy to promote women’s and girl's rights, representation and resources based on the reality in which they live. What exactly a feminist foreign policy means is hard to define, but the perspective should permeate everything the foreign ministry and the diplomatic missions to.

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When the Swedish Social Democratic Party formed a government after the 2014 elections, they called themselves the world’s first feminist government. One year later, in November 2015, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented its action plan for a feminist foreign policy with goals for the years 2015 to 2018 and six focus areas for 2016:

To strengthen women and girls’ human rights in humanitarian situations
To fight and prevent gender-based and sexual violence against women and girls in conflict and post conflict situations
To promote women’s participation as actors in peace processes and peace promoting measures
To promote women and girls’ participation in the work for economic, social and environmental sustainable development
To strengthen women and girls’ economic independence and their access to economic resources, including though productive work under decent living conditions
To strengthen sexual and reproductive rights for girls and young people

Source: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ action plan for a feminist foreign policy 2015-2018 with focus areas for 2016

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