- The third Feminist Foreign Policy Summit will take place from July 1-3, 2024 in Mexico City. Previous summits took place in Germany (2022) and the Netherlands (2023).
- The purpose of the Summit is to create a space for dialogue in which to share experiences, best practices and challenges related to the implementation of feminist foreign policies, and to find specific opportunities for mainstreaming gender equality in international forums such as the Summit of the Future.
During the side event on feminist foreign policy promoted by Mexico at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena Ibarra announced that Mexico would host the third International Feminist Foreign Policy Summit from July 1-3, 2024 in Mexico City.
The summit, previously held in Germany (2022) and the Netherlands (2023), will be organized by the Foreign Ministry, together with the National Women’s Institute (Inmujeres) and UN Women.
In her remarks, Foreign Secretary Bárcena Ibarra said that feminist foreign policies are an innovative instrument for eliminating the structural and historical barriers that women face on a daily basis at home, at work and in their communities. These policies must be inclusive, close, safe and effective.
The third Summit will bring together ministers, special envoys, high-level officials from countries committed to feminist foreign policies, civil society, academia and other interested actors to create a space for dialogue in which to share experiences, best practices and challenges related to the implementation of feminist foreign policies.
It also seeks to find opportunities for collaboration in creating effective strategies to promote gender equality at the global level, particularly on the issues currently being negotiated in preparation for the Summit of the Future.
The side event was organized by the Foreign Ministry and the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations (UN), with the participation of Inmujeres President Nadine Gasman Zylbermann, who in her remarks said that feminist foreign policies must yield tangible results, so that equality between women and men is seen and felt in foreign policy, in line with our national policy of equality.
The event was held as part of the Feminist Foreign Policy Group (FFP+) that is based in New York and currently chaired by Mexico and Spain. In attendance were the Prime Minister of St. Maarten, Silveria Jacobs, representative of the Netherlands; the Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs of Colombia, Elizabeth Taylor Jay; the Director of Multilateral Affairs of Chile, Carla Serazzi; and the Deputy Permanent Representative of Spain to the UN, Ana Jimenez.
Also participating on behalf of the many stakeholders were UN Women Deputy Executive Director Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda; the Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN Women, María-Noel Vaeza; the Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls, Laura Nyirinkindi; and Fernanda Vázquez Rojas, from Elige Red Mexico, representing Mexico’s youths.
As part of its feminist foreign policy, Mexico reaffirms its commitment to eliminating structural differences, gaps and gender inequalities so that no woman, young woman or girl, in all their diversity, is left behind.
