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Sweden ditches 'feminist foreign policy'
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 19 - 10 - 2022

Sweden's new foreign minister has ditched its pioneering "feminist foreign policy", saying the label has become more important than its content.
But Tobias Billstrom said, "We will always stand for gender equality".
The previous left-wing government launched the policy in 2014, becoming the first in the world to put gender equality at the heart of its dealings with other nations.
The self-labeled "feminist government" had ruffled feathers globally.
Billstrom announced the radical policy shift moments after Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf Kristerrson, presented his new government appointments on Tuesday.
"Gender equality is a core value for Sweden and this government, but we will not conduct a feminist foreign policy," he said.
"Because labels on things have a tendency to cover up the content", he said. The online web page for the government's former policy was no longer available.
A former foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, launched the policy emphasizing the importance of the three 'R's: "rights, representation and resources".
Rights to political participation in civil society, economic emancipation and sexual and reproductive rights were just some of the flagship points of the foreign policy.
But the Swedish Gender Equality Minister Paulina Brandberg, from the Liberal party which has previously supported a "feminist foreign policy", said that "so long" as she remains in post she will "make sure the government's policies are feminist".
The radical foreign policy has resulted in diplomatic disputes around the world.
During Sweden's time on the UN Security Council in 2017, it worked to include a resolution that sexual and gender-based violence could be grounds for sanctions.
Swedish membership also encouraged women's rights advocates from Somalia and Nigeria to speak at the council.
Sweden also claimed that it helped to contribute to new policies on female political representation in Moldova and Somalia, the inclusion of gender equality issues in Colombia's 2016 peace deal, and also contributed to new legislation in some 20 countries, often related to gender-based violence and child marriage.
However the policy was not without its critics. Swedish civil society organization criticized the former government's arms exports to authoritarian regimes with a record of human rights abuses.
On Friday, the country's minority coalition government was announced after Kristersson reached a deal with two smaller parties, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, despite the Social Democrats (SD) gaining the largest share of votes.
However, the left-wing coalition the SD formed with other parties was three seats smaller than the right's.
The biggest winners in the Sept. 11 election were the far-right Sweden Democrats who emerged as the second-largest party behind the Social Democrats — who have dominated Swedish politics since the 1930s — taking around one-in-five votes.
Born out of a neo-Nazi movement at the end of the 1980s, the anti-immigration party entered parliament with 5.7% of the vote in 2010, increasing this to 17.5% in 2018.
While the Sweden Democrats will remain outside the government, they have pledged to back it in parliament to give it a majority in exchange for policy commitments, notably on immigration and crime. — BBC


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