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UNDP: e-discussion on Natural Capital and Inequalities
As a run-up to the UNDP 2016 Regional Human Development Report on Inequalities, the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub is organizing a series of e-discussions on different themes being addressed in the repo [...]
8 Nov Deadline for Call for Awards by our colleagues from Women Gender Constituency at the Climate Negotiations
We invite you to participate in the ‘Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards‘ initiative for the upcoming UN climate negotiations (COP21) in Paris! The Women and Gender Constituency of UNFCCC and othe [...]
Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda: Issue 17
"The publication focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda from the perspective of the Women Major Group. The article is split into three sections; 1) Introduction, 2) [...]
Climate Negotiations: COP 21
Agenda: * Sunday 8 – Tue 10 November: Informal negotiations at the conference centre of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Paris, including a 1,5 hour session with Major Groups/Constituencies on Sunday [...]
Informal Consultations with Civil Society on the agenda and work of the Second Committee
Gender equality is not only a social issue - it is inextricably linked to environmental and economic issues. It is also a matter of human rights. Eleanor Blomstrom's (WEDO) delivered her intervent [...]
Sustainable Development Summit, 2015: Emilia Reyes’s Intervention
We’ve been here to monitor your pledges to achieve the Goals, We’ll remind you and support you in them all. We’ll walk the path with you, sometimes in rhyme, most times in prose, Towards that equa [...]
Women’s Major Group: Feminist Forum
Dear Feminists, The Women’s Major Group will host a Feminist Forum on September 24th, the day before the Post-2015 Summit. Feminists and women’s rights activists will come together to discuss, deba [...]
Trees Alone don’t Make a Forest: SDGs Deforestation
Development Goal number 15 aims at halting deforestation by 2020. It might sound ambitious - but even that, environmentalists say, is not enough. At debate is the definition of "forest." Read Isis [...]
Global Goals on Women’s Right Fall Far Short of Promises Made 20 Years Ago
"The Beijing agreement is not a perfect roadmap for the realisation of gender equality and women’s rights – like the SDGs, it doesn’t go far enough in protecting women’s sexual and reproductive he [...]
Women’s Major Group Letter to the attention of USGs Ms Amina Mohammed and Mr Thomas Gass
"Overall concern: Although it is good that many different people have become engaged in spreading the word about the 2030 Agenda and the 17 SDGs, we call on leadership from the UN to avoid triviali [...]