Seven years after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals – almost halfway to the 2030 deadline – the visionary promise of social justice and a rights-based, equitable and ecologically just world for all appears to be a distant dream. 1300 participants from groups who have historically been marginalized and excluded, as well as civil society organisations from over 127 countries, called upon world leaders to take bold and transformative steps to address the current unjust, unequal and extractive system at the three-day Global People’s Assembly (GPA) held from 22-24 September during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, 2022.
A Declaration developed with inputs from over 30 national and regional people’s assemblies, was adopted at the GPA on 22 September, organised by Global call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) and allies, including the Women’s Major Group. “The time to act is now,” the group calls for a shared political and economic power equally between the global north and global south, for global democracy and a robust civic space.
The Women’s Major Group helped convene the GPA and the drafting of the Declaration, and co-organized a webinar with the Feminist Action Nexus members and allies on Corporate Capture vs. Systems Change: Identifying a Feminist Way Forward. Watch full recording of the webinar below and listen to the testimonies of struggles against corporate capture, and inspiration for a collective transformation towards a gender equal world.
