Agenda 2030, SDGs and the HLPF
ARFSD 2019: Lessons Learned for Supporting a Human Rights-based Approach to the SDGs Side Event
Join us at the side event on Lessons Learned for Supporting a Human Rights-based Approach to the SDGs, during the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, in Marrocco. Date: Thursday, [...]
Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD): Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality
The Fifth (2019) session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD 5) will be held under the theme “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”. It will carry ou [...]
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 [...]
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 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, [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Ivana Savic & Tatjana Binggeli’s intervention on Bridging the Gap: Achieving Greater Income and Economic Equality
The transformation of deeply rooted systems, including economic and political systems, is required to leave no one behind as they are often based on unequal distributions of wealth and decision-ma [...]