“When women are safe, everyone in society is safe,” says Baerbock.
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New York Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wants to advance the strengthening of women’s rights as a central element of international policy. “Feminist foreign policy is not a European or Western concept. It’s a universal concept of human rights,” the environmentalist politician said at a feminist foreign policy event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday.
Baerbock has identified women’s health and reproductive rights as issues of global importance.
The Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Canada, Ann Linde and Melanie Joly, as well as their counterparts from the Netherlands, Chile, Liberia and Mongolia took part in the roundtable chaired by Baerbock.
Many countries are lagging behind in women’s health and reproductive rights, criticized Baerbock, who was the first woman and mother of two little girls to lead the Foreign Office in Berlin for nine months. There is often a fundamental violation of human rights here.
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If you imagine there are national or European regulations and laws that say men are not allowed to do what they want with their bodies – there would be an outcry all over the world, the minister said.
“When women are safe, everyone in society is safe,” Baerbock said, citing a central approach to his concept. Conversely, “if women are not safe, no one in a country is safe” – we see it currently in Iran.
After a 22-year-old died in police custody, protests are taking place there to denounce the woman’s death and demand clarification. The young woman was arrested by the moral and religious police last Tuesday because of her “anti-Islamic outfit”. She fell into a coma and died in hospital on Friday. According to the police, the young woman had heart problems and fainted at the station.
Baerbock sees the feminist foreign policy she promotes as a central approach to the international application of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. She repeatedly emphasizes that women’s rights are an indicator of the free and democratic state of society.
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Baerbock: Feminist women’s politics is a human rights concept
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