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Schedule and location of morning Caucus Meetings this week, during the Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations
There will be meetings every morning at 8:30 a.m. for major groups and other stakeholders before the start of the IGN sessions. The schedule for the remaining meetings is as follows: Tuesday, 19 Ma [...]
Side Event on How to Hold Your Government’s Feet to the Fire: Accountability for Agenda 2030
This session, led by the Organising Partners of the Women’s Major Group, is intended to bring together women from different regions around the world to discuss and review the challenges and progre [...]
Talking Points from the MoI side event at the Fourth Session of the Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations
It is critical that international aid and domestic resources reach Women’s Rights Organisations, and that they can play a key role in assessing how public finance is spent and what impact it has on [...]
Side Event – Rethinking Technology in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: technology assessment, facilitation mechanism and non-financial MOI
The aspirations expressed at Rio+20 to put in place a global mechanism that will promote the development, transfer, and deployment of technologies that respond to the needs of developing countries [...]
Women’s Major Group Intervention during the Stakeholder Dialogue at the Post-2015 negotiations
Watch the interventions of Tetet Lauron and Nozipho Wrights on behalf of the Women’s Major Group on indicators, and the very pertinent comment of Meera of Blue Planet, as well as good comments by [...]
Side Event on ‘Gender and the Post-2015 Development Agenda’
The WMG is happy to invite you to the side event: 'Gender and the Post-2015 Development Agenda: knowing the process for stronger advocacy' to be held on March 25, 8:30am-11am at Salle SE3A, Tunis ( [...]
Indicators Messaging with imput from Women’s Major Group
The Women’s Major Group believes this is the start of a long-term process to define an indicator framework that is ambitious, feasible and that measures what we need to count in order to have the i [...]
Women’s Groups Urge UK Not to Roll Back Progress on Development Goals
Women’s human rights groups at the UN this week have criticized the continued lack of support by the UK government for the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs) and targets that were create [...]
Advocating in 2015 for a Sustainable, Gender Just and Human Rights based Development Framework for the next Decades
States have the duty to mobilize the maximum available resources, including through combating tax evasion and avoidance, and expand the tax base in a progressive way Read Nicole Bidegain's (DAWN) s [...]