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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More information about the 2030 Agenda process, access here
Feminist NGOs Consultation during the Third Meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development
The Women's Major Group, together with the Comité de ONGs sobre la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe (NGO CSW LAC) and the Fundación para Estudio e Investig [...]
ECERFSD 2019: ECERCEM Input to the ECERFSD Report
Read the Regional Civil society Engagement Mechanism in the UNECE region (ECERCEM) collective input to the ECERFSD 2019 Report on 10th April 2019. All suggestions are highlighted in a different c [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Nick Meynen’s Intervention on The Growth We Want: Solutions for Sustained, Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth
Dethrone King GDP and crown Queen WELL-BEING Nick Meynen (European Environmental Bureau) spoke on behalf of the Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism, on The Growth We Want: Solutions for Su [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Serafine Duss & Andreas Berglöf’s Intervention on Learning without Limits: Lifelong Learning and Inclusive Education
In times of growing opposition to civil society and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), it is imperative that governments support these basic rights when they are being questioned. W [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Pavlina Ivanova’s Intervention on Empowering People to Protect the Planet: The Environmental Dimension of SDG 16
We need to work on governmental level and create common rules and limits and measurements for the biophysical and biochemical factors and pollutants dangerous for our nature, our homes and all the [...]