SARA E DAVIES AND JACQUI TRUE |

This year we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March (with the theme #EachforEqual), the 25th anniversary of the UN Beijing Platform for Action, and the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 inaugurating the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. At the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi in January, Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne said, “We can make more progress on global security and prosperity by ensuring the inclusion of women and girls in decision-making.” Australia’s foreign policy and development outreach has been steadily devoted to gender equality and women’s empowerment, because they are the best frontline defence against violence and instability. Australia sits among only nine countries (Belgium, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden,) that have prioritised the promotion of gender equality as principal objective in aid programming.

Please click here to read the full “Towards equal peace: Australian regional investment in gender equality” article published at The Interpreter, written by Jacqui True, Professor Sara E Davies (Griffith Asia Institute member), Katrina Lee-Koo and Nicole George.