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Report of the 1st National Conference on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)
Given the scope and ambition of the SDGs, it is clear that governments alone cannot achieve the agenda. They must also facilitate the participation of all sectors of society, including civil socie [...]
HLPF 2018: Jaclyn Blickley’s intervention at the 49th meeting of the ECOSOC High-Level segment 2018
While 8 of the 17 goals explicitly integrate commitments to women and girls, the achievement of the agenda has implications for women’s and girls’ human rights. The six goals under review at the H [...]
HLPF 2018: Marta Szostak’s Review on Poland VNR
Affordable housing remains a priority for Polish families, could the Polish government provide some insight on how the government’s National Housing Program addresses the challenge of accessing an [...]
HLPF 2018: Anna Szczegielniak’s Review on Poland VNR
How can Poland respond to the undermining of reproductive rights by limiting access to emergency contraception, plans to restrict access to abortion and failure to implement comprehensive sexualit [...]
HLPF 2018: International Solidarity: Local Needs, Global Action
"Transformative global actions to tackle the structural issues requires a fair and functional global system in which civil society, social movements, and environmental and women’s human rights def [...]
HLPF 2018: Means of Implementation, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
"Member States should oppose the push of blending of ODA with privatization investments. Public Private Partnerships remain problematic. We oppose the privatization of public services and faciliti [...]
HLPF 2018: Essivi Sinmégnon’s response to Togo VNR
Essivi Sinmégnon Acakpo-Addra (Women Environmental Programme Togo) delivered her Q&A response on behalf of the Women's Major Group at the VNR reviews at the High-level Political Forum, held in [...]
HLPF 2018: Women Human Rights and Environmental Defenders
"Despite calls from civil society, and recent progress on commitment to WHREDs at a global level, the 2030 agenda fails to highlight the important and legitimate role of WHREDs working on developm [...]
Women Major Group (WMG) Organising Partners 2019-2021 Elections
These past two years the WMG was successful in influencing multiple spaces and mechanisms and even co-chaired the HLPF MGoCoordination Mechanism for the 2nd year in a row. Despite the shrinking of [...]
HLPF 2018: Katia Araujo’s Review of the SDG 15
Insecure land rights for women and communities is also a key threat to forests and gender equality. Women own less than 20% of the world’s land and in more than half of all countries. Additionally [...]