; Whereas feminist foreign policy includes a focus on key thematic priorities of bodily autonomy, peace, environmental integrity, and justice, which are often left behind in foreign policy development and discourse; Whereas, although women and girls make up approximately half of the world’s population, they face considerable disparities relative to men and boys in their access to rights, resources, and agency around the world, and— (1) as of 2022, women had on average three-quarters of the legal rights as men worldwide; (2) the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report for 2022 estimates that at the current rate of change, it will take 132 years for there to be gender parity across the four dimensions it examines: health and survival, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, and political empowerment; (3) there are 1,800,000,000 young people in the world and approximately half of them, 900,000,000, are adolescent girls and young women; (4) as early as age 6, girls’ levels of ambition and self-confidence in their abilities are impacted by gender discrimination and harmful stereotypes, and girls aged 12 to 17 are more at risk of dropping out of school than boys around the world; (5) in 2022, around the world women held only 22.9 percent of parliamentary seats and 16.1 percent of ministerial positions; (6) approximately one-third of women globally have experienced gender-based violence, which increases in settings of crisis, conflict, and humanitarian emergencies; (7) in 2021, 81,000 women and girls were killed worldwide, 45,000 of them by an intimate partner or family member; (8) in 2021, only 5.8 percent of military contingents and 14.4 percent of uniformed police units in United Nations peacekeeping missions were women