How can we use feminist foreign policies to monitor, call out and ultimately condemn attacks on gender and reproductive rights?

Issue:

The current pandemic has the potential to seriously undermine hard-won gender and reproductive rights around the world. We have already seen countries using this crisis as cover for the introduction/advancement of repressive bills meant to limit women’s freedoms - for example, Poland and the US are using this time to restrict/attempt to restrict access to abortion.

How can these rollbacks be monitored, called out and ultimately condemned by the global community?

Solution:

Feminist foreign policies, gender balanced and gender conscious crisis response teams.

Who Should Act:

States, nations and international organisations; can be supported by pressure and lobbying efforts by local/grassroots level actors.