2023-09-18 00:31:06
France will double its funding for feminist organizations while women’s rights are “constantly, and sometimes violently, called into question” around the world, the French Secretary of State for Development announced on Sunday.
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou participated on Sunday in New York in the mid-term review of the Generation Equality Forum as part of the day dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by UN Member States in 2015 to build a better and more future sustainable by 2030.
In 2021, this Forum had “made strong commitments”, recalled the Secretary of State. “We have to hold them. We owe it to Iranian women, to Afghan women, to all women who suffer injustice and violence across the world,” she continued.
France has been heavily involved in recent years with the creation in 2019 of a French Fund to support feminist organizations.
“In three years, this fund has mobilized 134 million euros for the benefit of 1,000 associations in 75 countries,” she explained.
And, “thanks to this fund, France has become the leading financier of feminist organizations in the world,” she added.
This fund will now benefit from 250 million euros over 5 years. “This is more than a doubling compared to our previous commitment,” said Chrysoula Zacharopoulou.
She finally called on “all States to make new commitments”, and to “put women at the center”, repeating the words of the Secretary General of the United Nations.
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