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.

The purpose of this research is to improve understanding of the trajectories towards adoption of feminist foreign policies.

In this policy brief, IWDA explores feminist foreign policy in practice through a comparative analysis of country frameworks.

This paper draws on IWDA’s work to date, outlining the basis of a feminist foreign policy for Australia.

This joint submission from five leading gender equality focused Australian NGOs makes the case that Australia should adopt a feminist approach to all areas of its foreign policy, including international development.

IWDA joined with the International Centre for Research on Women and Professor Anne Marie Goetz of New York University’s Centre for Global Studies to explore the principles and accountability mechanisms needed for feminist foreign policy.