Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals which all countries have committed to implement in an integrated and inclusive manner. The 2030 Agenda aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (SDG 5) through specific targets on eliminating gender based elimination, violence, harmful practices, and on ensuring that women and girls’ rights in all areas are upheld.
The 2030 Agenda recognizes the important role of civil society including Major Groups such as the Women’s Major Group. The Women’s Major Group for the 2030 Agenda, facilitates the participation of women’s rights and feminist organizations and movements in the policy process, linking the global to the national process, as well as ensuring coherent with the other UN women’s rights and other related processes. The Women’s Major Group is currently facilitated by 8 elected Organizing Partners (OPs).
The Women’s Major Group 2030, works through active working groups to provide input to the policy processes at all levels, and to ensure coherence and cooperate with the Women’s constituencies in other policy processes.
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Tunisia VNR 2019 Parallel Report: Agenda 2030
La Présentation du VNR à HLPF avec des données concises et une vision très claire et performante pour les 11 ans restants devrait être une occasion pour les institutions internationales de propose [...]
HLPF 2019: Chantal Umuhoza’s Intervention on Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality – Perspectives of Society
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HLPF 2019: Sarankhukhuu Sharavdorj’s Intervention on Science Policy Interface
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HLPF 2019: Amasai Jeke’s Intervention on Perspectives of SIDS Including Main Findings from Mid-term Review of the SAMOA Pathway
"it is imperative that SIDS governments take a human rights-based approach with a clear justice-focused definition of prosperity that fully recognizes justice for ecological sustainability, climat [...]
Chad VNR 2019 Parallel Report: Agenda 2030
Les gouvernements doivent prévenir les attaques et assurer la sécurité et le leadership des femmes défenseures des droits humains, des militantes pour la paix et des défenseurs de l' environnement [...]
HLPF 2019: Chika Mercedes Ibeh’s Intervention on LDCs and LLDCs
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HLPF 2019: Elizabeth Ampairwe’s Intervention on Progress, Gaps and Obstacles: Are We on Track for Leaving no One Behind?
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HLPF 2019: EGM on Advancing the 2030 Agenda into the HLPF’s Second Cycle
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UNEP CPR: CSOs comments to Private Sector Engagement
There is a need for full transparency when funds from the private sector are to receive. We also support Member State's requests for UNEP to share a roadmap of future MoU. Women's Major Group at U [...]
HLPF 2019: WMG Comments to the 2019 Global SD Report
Despite the premise of challenging growth and the dominant and destructive paradigm associated with the pursuit of growing GDP, the report’s “Call to Action” fails to follow its critiques to their [...]