A gender-transformative economic system based on rights, justice, care, and equality for all is urgent

1. CHAPEAU

We, feminists representing civil society organisations, networks, movements, and collectives, from all regions of the world at the Feminist Forum ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (Seville, July 2025), are united in our vision for effective, ambitious, and systemic transformation.

We reaffirm our commitment to the Monterrey Consensus, the Doha Declaration, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the International Conference on Population and Development and its Programme of Action, the Paris Agreement, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Pact for the Future, and all of the other global and regional commitments and frameworks that place gender equality, human rights, democracy, fundamental freedoms, environmental justice, and sustainable development at the core of multilateralism.

We acknowledge and commend the Comprimiso de Seville’s articulate affirmations regarding the indispensable imperative of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, its crucial recognition of the economic value inherent in unpaid care work, and the reference to eradicate gender-based violence.

Nevertheless, we harbour a significant concern that the agreed commitment does not sufficiently steer the financing architecture towards the realization of a genuinely gender-just economy in which financing development will result in equitable outcomes and fair distribution of resources capable of promoting social, economic, and environmental justice and strengthening democracy and multilateralism.

We will thus continue to monitor the implementation of the Compromiso de Sevilla, demanding a rightsbased, environmentally just, decolonial, intersectional, sustainable, and people-centred economic model that centres care, reparations, redistribution, and accountability. We call for an urgent end to escalating wars, territorial invasions, and genocides. Nothing less than peace and a gender-transformative shift in economic governance is capable of reversing the multiple and intersecting crises we face. Nothing less will be acceptable.

In this decisive moment of intersecting global crises, feminist solutions are urgent and feminists raise our Red Flag to denounce the challenges before us, as the failing economic order continues to deepen inequalities and profit from wars and environmental destruction. We refuse to accept this trajectory as inevitable. We call for courageous, inclusive, and transformative feminist multilateralism and diplomacy with a strengthened United Nations at its core, including, a Security Council that respects the UN Charter and responds to the realities and demands of the Global South and of those most left behind.

The time to act is now, and we, the feminists, are leading this essential transformation.