Professor Toni Haastrup shares expertise on Feminist Foreign Policy
She helped shape strategies to protect women鈥檚 rights globally and contributed to a side event on localising FFP. Her research supports a pioneering online policy tool.
, Chair in Global Politics, at 糖心Vlog官方, recently moderated a plenary session on regional perspectives and participated in an expert panel at the (FFP) in Paris.
The event aimed to identify strategies to strengthen and expand international coalitions to preserve the rights of women and further progress gender equality.
Whilst in Paris, Toni was also invited, by the , to contribute to a side-event focusing on localisation in FFP contexts.
Attending the 4th Feminist Foreign Policy Ministerial was both energising and sobering. It was energising to see feminist language and commitments continuing to hold space in multilateral fora, and to hear states acknowledge the need to centre gender justice and care as central to global politics. Yet, some of the discussions also underscored how fragile these gains are in the context of intensifying anti-feminist and anti-rights resistance, militarisation, and shrinking civic space.
I came away convinced that feminist foreign policies can still be powerful tools - but only if they are grounded in the knowledge and organising of movements, especially in the Global South, and if states are willing to confront their own inconsistencies on issues such as migration, climate, and security. My participation reaffirmed the importance of building stronger bridges between feminist scholarship, policy, and activism so that FFPs move beyond rhetoric towards genuinely transformative practice.
Toni鈥檚 expertise on FFP includes recent publications ( and ). This work is also being developed as an online archive FFP, in a collaboration with academics at the Universities of Birmingham and Bath as an essential research and policy tool, which will be the first of its kind.