– Meet the ‘Walkie-Talkies’: 6 feminist champions!
The Walking the Talk consortium is proud to introduce six exceptional feminists from around the world—aka our team of "Walkie-Talkies." These experts bring unique perspectives and invaluable experience to our mission of promoting feminist foreign policies, practices, and funding in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the European Union.
-Feminist research: a lever for change in the fight against gynecological and obstetric violence
From May 21 to 23, 2024, a technical workshop on national survey methodologies was held in Dakar as part of the "Our Bodies, Our Health" project, which combats gynecological and obstetric violence (GOV) in Senegal.
– Legislative elections in France: feminist mobilization has paid off!
Collective mobilization has paid off: the far right will not govern France in 2024. Equipop is not letting its guard down and remains mobilized alongside the "Alertes féministes" coalition. Now we must demand progress on women's rights and gender equality!
- In France and around the world, we feminists are collectively resisting the far right
The results of the first round of the French legislative elections have placed the National Rally, the main far-right party led by Marine Le Pen, in the lead. From Mexico City, where we are gathered for the third international conference on feminist foreign policy, and everywhere else in the world where we are closely following these elections, we note […]
– Moving Commitments to Action: Gender Data as a Cornerstone of Feminist Foreign Policy
Since Sweden announced the world’s first feminist foreign policy (FFP) in 2014, momentum has grown, with fifteen countries committing to FFPs by June 2024. Despite this, gender data remains overlooked in many FFP discussions and policies, hindering governments’ abilities to measure progress, ensure accountability, and make informed decisions. Integrating gender data into FFP frameworks […]
– Call for young people to mobilize against the far right on June 30 and July 7, 2024
The members of Team Hope, a group of young feminist volunteers from Equipop in Paris, are taking action. From June 28 to 30, Team Hope will be running an awareness-raising stand on gender equality at the Solidays festival. Here is the text they are distributing at the stand, calling on young people to take action in […]
– Bringing a feminist perspective to the Francophone conference on HIV: a look back at AFRAVIH
The AFRAVIH Conference is an essential forum for dialogue on HIV in French-speaking Africa. At the 12th edition in Yaoundé, Equipop advocated for the incorporation of a feminist perspective, which is essential to the fight against HIV and the defense of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Our interventions highlighted the link between […]
– Resisting collectively against the far right
In light of the historic gains made by the far right in the European elections and following Emmanuel Macron's irresponsible announcement that he would dissolve the National Assembly, it is urgent that we mobilize at all levels to defend women's rights, gender equality, and democratic values.
– Against the far right #AlertesFéministes on Sunday, June 23
The signatories of the #AlertesFéministes coalition—including Equipop—call on everyone to take action against the dangers of the far right. To preserve democracy, which is already under threat, and to protect our hard-won rights and social gains, for the dignity of all, we will sound feminist alarms everywhere in […]
– Defending abortion rights in the EU – Equipop supports “My Voice, My Choice!”
Several major European feminist organizations have launched "My Voice My Choice," a European citizens' initiative calling on the European Union to provide free, safe, and accessible abortion services to anyone in Europe who wants one. With the far right, which has always been against women's and LGBTQIA+ rights, [...]