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WEBINAR: The case for feminist foreign policy in Asia

Feminist foreign policy is an approach which places gender equality as the central goal of foreign policy, in recognition that gender equality is a predictor of peaceful and flourishing societies.

Women: missing (but) in action in Japanese politics

  • Professor Donna Weeks,

Is Japan’s first female prime minister already in parliament or is she yet to be elected? The less optimistic among us wonder if she is yet to be born?

Indonesia’s fight for a law against sexual violence needs to involve a discussion of Islamic values

  • Dr Dina Afrianty,

Time and again, Indonesians have been confronted by a conversation over the role of women defined and bound by cultural and traditional values.

COVID-19, women and digitised food networks in Jakarta: Inequality and resilience

  • Dr Inaya Rakhmani, Dr Ariane Utomo, Dr Catherine Phillips, Dr Diahhadi Setyonaluri,

COVID-19 has highlighted the need for informal food networks and the essential role that women play in creating and sustaining them.

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 will set back the cause of women’s rights in Indonesia

  • Atnike Nova Sigiro,

Work on gender quality, such as the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence, is made more difficult by coronavirus.