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African Women Major Group Position Paper on SDGs Under Review
In addressing gender inequality in the context of sustainable development, it is important to be inclusive and ensure that no woman or girl is denied access to education, healthcare, employment, hu [...]
FfD 2019: WWG on FfD Strategy Session
The Women's Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) is having a strategy session ahead of the FfD Forum to coordinate advocacy efforts, develop content and key advocacy language an [...]
Women’s Major Group 2019 High-Level Political Forum Position Paper: Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”
Realising the transformative vision of the 2030 Agenda requires creating political rather than technical shifts. It requires moving from current failed approaches and towards nonviolent, equitable [...]
APFSD 2019: Shaila Shahid’s Intervention at the Session on Progress in the implementation of SDG 17 on MOI
Without means that match the ends in ambition, the SDGs goals will be 'aspirational' not in the best sense -of something that will inspire all people to act to bring it about, but in the worst sen [...]
Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)
"This year, the APFSD will address the theme “'Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality” and on the cluster of SDGs to be reviewed at the HLPF - in accordance with General Assembly [...]
APFSD: Strengthening People’s Power for Development Justice in an Unequal and Divided World
Achieving development justice starts with having a common understanding of not only the symptoms of our failed development model, but also of root structural and systemic causes of development inj [...]
Second Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on BBNJ
The second session of the BBNJ Conference will be convened from 25 March to 5 April 2019 in New York. The intergovernmental conference elaborates a legally binding instrument under UNCLOS on the co [...]
APFSD 2019: Sabrina Rose Rasu’s Intervention at the Opening Keynote Session
If you are creating a world for us that is both equal and inclusive then you cannot have it without us and without a living planet. Sabrina Rose Rasu (#Vanuatu Young Women for Change) delivered he [...]
Regional Forum on sustainable development for the UNECE region, 2019
Read the RCEM opening and close statements delivered during the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region, held in Geneve from 21 - 22 March 2019. For the opening statement dow [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Joyce Hamilton & Natasha Amdiju’s Intervention on Towards a World of Equal Opportunity: Tackling Inequality caused by Exclusion and Discrimination
Unequal structures and systemic barriers impact all of us, with the most marginalized being impacted hardest. The transformation of deeply rooted systems, including economic and political systems, [...]