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Stay informed about all news from the Women’s Major Group. Here you can find the latest articles, events, campaigns, tools and more related to sustainable development, Agenda 2030, sustainable development goals, indicators, the high level political forum, etc …
HLPF 2019: Civil Society Forum
The Civil Society Forum it will take place, during the HLPF (SDG Summit), at the United Nations in New York, a space for feminist influence. Date: 24th September 2019 Local: UNHQ, New York [...]
IISD 2019: Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW)
"APCW is part of Regional Climate Weeks that are held annually in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Asia-Pacific. Regional Climate Weeks are organized by the Nairobi Framework Partne [...]
Reflections on the Major Groups and other Stakeholders (MGoS) System
“Women are often not even let in the door. The Major Group structure provides a guaranteed slot in the door. It's never enough, it's always very thin, but it's that guardianship that gives us t [...]
HLPF 2019: Prameswari Puspa Dewi’s Intervention at the ECOSOC Meeting
"Governments, corporations, the military industrial complex, international financial institutions, and other power holders must be held accountable to human rights and commitments to leave no one [...]
HLPF 2019: Kim Windvogel’s Intervention on Africa VNR
"How does the government plan to address these recommendations in a way that is both constitutionally gender responsive, inclusive of the youth of South Africa and sustainable for all?" Kim Windvo [...]
HLPF 2019: Mara Dolan’s Article on Climate Breakdown, Decision-Makers, We Need You to Wake Up, to Rise Up!
Climate change is a feminist issue. Or really, to be more specific, climate change is an issue of patriarchy, racism, and exploitation. And if feminists care about these things, then we really need [...]
HLPF 2019: Chantal Umuhoza’s Intervention on Rwanda VNR
"Rwanda needs to ensure wider inclusion and non discrimination on any ground as articulated in Rwanda’s constitution. We also call on Rwanda to speed up the ratification of the AU protocol on the [...]
HLPF 2019: Aleksandra Mladenovic’s Intervention on Serbia
(...) we would like to add that the nexus women-human rights-environment is to be considered as a horizontal issue, intersected within all aspects of society and all SDGs. Therefore, interlinkag [...]
HLPF 2019: Jonathan Chalon’s Intervention on St. Lucia VNR
"We must create safe spaces and provide the necessary resources so that all citizens can be so empowered to play their part in addressing the SDGs". Jonathan Chalon (Rutgers) delivered his interve [...]
HLPF 2019: Sarah Zaman’s Intervention on What are Regions Telling us About the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs?
We need to change the nature of discussions at the HLPF. The APFSD, for example, allows space to discuss systemic barriers to sustainable development, and have specific action-oriented recommendat [...]