Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola today participated in the high-level event “Putting Feminism into Practice in International Policy Formulation and for the Achievement of the SDGs”, led by Chile, Germany, Liberia, Mexico, the Netherlands and Sweden as part of the 77th United Nations General Assembly.

The purpose of the forum was to discuss the different experiences in developing and implementing a feminist foreign policy, as well as the importance of moving towards feminist multilateralism as a framework for bringing commitments closer to real practices in different countries, as well as the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this sense, the Chancellor stressed that the Chilean government is working on a feminist foreign policy that seeks to promote initiatives in all available spaces to combat inequalities, calling for action both in bilateral relations and in the bodies of regional and multilateral coordination.

“Structural problems such as the climate crisis, economic restrictions, food security, pandemics, migration, among other phenomena, must necessarily integrate women not only in a witnessing way, but as essential actors in the search for inclusive solutions”, underlined the Minister.

Likewise, she underlined the importance of women’s participation in decision-making processes and the recent strides made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reach higher levels of representation, in particular at the level of ambassadors, where for the first time in the history of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs women reach 28% of the total.

Finally, she highlighted the Ministry’s commitment to integrating the gender perspective in all its work, from the inclusion of gender chapters in trade agreements to the adoption of memorandums of understanding at the bilateral level and the promotion women’s rights and dissent in various multilateral forums. .

The event brought together the Foreign Ministers of Germany, Annalena Baerbock; Sweden, Ann Linde; Netherlands, Wopke Hoekstra; Canada, Melanie Joly; Rwanda, Vincent Biruta, and Albania, Olta Xhaçka; in addition to the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Welfare of Liberia, Williametta E. Saydee Tarr; the Deputy Minister of Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Laura Gil, and the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Martha Delgado.