HLPF 2017: Sehnaz Bahçeci’s Intervention as an official speaker on “Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing World”

“obscene concentration of wealth” and its structural and systematic drivers is causing exactly the poverty we are trying to eradicate with Agenda 2030, and with women and girls disproportionately affected”.

Şehnaz Kıymaz Bahçeci (Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways) delivered her combined statement on behalf of the Women’s Major Group, during the 4th Meeting of the High-level Political Forum Session on Thematic review eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world, held at the UNHQ, in New York city, on 11th July.

Download the statement here.

Watch her speech here.