The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. (E.T.)
Gender mainstreaming seeks to promote gender equality by integrating gender perspectives into assessments of policies and program, and since 2014 several countries have announced this perspective is to be applied to their foreign policy, and dubbed it a “feminist foreign policy.” The list includes Sweden, the first country to introduce such a policy and also the only one to drop it, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, and Spain. This talk will discuss the challenges and opportunities to advance feminist approaches in multilateral arms control and disarmament processes in particular, and provide ideas how to operationalize a feminist foreign policy that can have a significant impact on these international security issues.
About the speaker: Renata H. Dalaqua is the Head of the Gender and Disarmament Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). Previously, she was the Deputy Director of Projects at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) and a Consultant with VERTIC's National Implementation Measures programme. She is the lead author of the UNIDIR study Still Behind the Curve on gender balance in arms control and disarmament diplomacy, as well as Missing Links, a study on sex-specific and gendered impacts of chemical and biological weapons.