The representatives of Canada governments and FFP+ group, including Albania, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Israel, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mongolia, Rwanda, Spain, Sweden, The Kingdom of the Netherlands and Tunisia, met in New York on the 20th of September 2023 during the High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly for a high-level event on Feminist Foreign Policy.

They told “gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity are crucial to fully implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, promote, protect and fulfill human rights, promote peace and security around the globe and make progress across all goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially combatting the feminization of poverty. Against this background, we reaffirm the commitment of our governments to take feminist, intersectional and gender-transformative approaches to our foreign policies, based on mainstreaming gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in all their diversity, taking into account the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination to which they may be subjected, in close cooperation with feminist civil society and movements”.

they added collaborate within the UN system, multilateral contexts, regional and bilateral contexts via our capitals and missions abroad to boost our collective efforts towards global gender equality, including by tackling the root causes of unequal power relations and structures.