In this year’s High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF), feminists of Women’s Major Group came together to draft interventions, which we were able to deliver in official thematic and VNR sessions that can also be found on UN Web TV. Below you may find a compilation of our recorded interventions, including some we were unable to deliver.
On the first day of HLPF 2022, it was disappointing to see civil society voices being dropped off from the discussion at HLPF 2022. It was also disappointing that civil society has been scheduled to be heard at the very end of the sessions thereby leaving them with barely any time to raise their concerns and demands. WMG member, Daksha Vaja, Community Science Center India, was to take the floor to bring attention to the importance of education in Science, Technology & Innovation toward #SRHR & gender equality before her intervention was cancelled for ‘lack of time’.
Intervention delivered by Saba Gebremedhin, Network of Ethiopian Women Associations (NEWA) and a Malala Fund partner organization, on the linkages of SDG 4 to girls’ education and gender equality.
Pille Tsopp-Pagan, from WSIC, as Lead Discussant at Session on SDG 5 – Gender equality, and interlinkages with other SDGs. Her intervention focussed on the dire situation of SDG 5 since its last review in 2017, and for the needs of women and girls, in all their diversities, to be addressed more comprehensively.
Intervention delivered by Pamela Martin Garcia on 11 July
Pamela Martin Garcia, delivering an intervention from the floor for the session on Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Mabel Bianco as Panelist on 12 July
Mabel Bianco, FEIM, as Panelist reminding the Member States and the UN about the vision of civil society: leaving no one behind in recovering better, and warning about the risk of leaving HLPF2022 without a firm political commitment to the Agenda 2030.
Emilia Reyes, Equidad de Género, as Panelist reiterating the urgency of the Global South that needs to be felt in the Global North and at the UN, and pushing for strong decisions that put people first, and not profits.
Svetlana Slesarenok, Founder and Director of Black Sea Women’s Club, speaking as a refugee from the war in Ukraine on the incompatibility between war and sustainable development, and the role of fossil fuels in conflict.
Cecile Karla, REFACOF, makes an intervention with regards to elimination of gender-based violence, prejudice and discrimination, and prioritizing education, including SRHR.
Intervention delivered by Rashima Kwatra on 12 July
Rashima Kwatra, RFSL, makes an intervention on behalf of the LGBTI SG, highlighting the widening vulnerabilities for women & girls, migrants, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV, and LGBTI groups.
April Porteria, as lead discussant speaks on behalf of MGoS CM & APRCEM proposing the alternative approach of Development Justice with an intersectional focus on systemic barriers.
Vanessa M. Cortés, from Asociació Stop Violéncias Andorra, makes an intervention against Andorra government for imprisoning feminist activists who are fighting for the right to safe and legal abortion, and bodily autonomy.
Sascha Gabizon, WECF, delivered a statement on behalf of the Civil Society of Guinea Bissau, urging the state increase state budgets for education and health, and to reaffirm their commitment to SDG 5.
