[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
November 19, 2025
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
Feminist Foreign Policies Are Fighting for Their Life [[link removed]]
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By Maria Luisa Gambale | At a recent ministerial conference in Paris on foreign feminist policy, celebration of hard-won gains in the field ran up against a disheartening canon of well-financed threats and efforts against women’s rights and gender policies worldwide.
The state of the movement is detailed painstakingly in a new 240-page report organized by the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, a space for feminists working across government, civil society and philanthropy to advance feminist foreign policy. The report was released at an event on the sidelines of the fourth ministerial conference, held this year in Paris from Oct. 22 to 23.
The collaborative has been producing a report on feminist foreign policy, or FFP, biennially since 2021; it was preceded by a paper issued in 2020 on the nature of feminist foreign policy and its core components, drawing on the few examples that existed then.
Lyric Thompson, the founder of the collaborative, said in the new report, “With the renouncement of feminist foreign policies in Sweden, Argentina, the Netherlands and Germany, I thought this year’s report might be an obituary for this now decade-old field.”
But despite such setbacks in the range of countries around the world, the authors found some room for determined optimism.
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Kim Davis Failed This Time, But Her Advocates Are Still American Power Players [[link removed]] Keeping Score: Democrats Dominate Key Elections; Federal Government Reopens After 43 Days; ICE Targets Childcare Centers [[link removed]]
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