Agenda 2030, SDGs and the HLPF
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: Land, Biodiversity, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Despite playing a major role in biodiversity conservation, forest management and restoration—such as through intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge, keeping seeds, energy generati [...]
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 [...]
HLPF 2018: Gertrude Kenyangi’s intervention as Lead Discussant on SGD 15
A policy is only as good as its implementation. It is important to ensure that policies translate into practice. The entire value chain, from the global to the national to the grassroots must be [...]
HLPF 2018: Joyce Hamilton’s Review on Leaving No One Behind: are we succeeding?
Patriarchy, colonialism and other systems of oppression reinforce inequalities, deny girls, women, gender non-conforming and trans people their agency and block progress toward achieving sustai [...]