Processes
HLPF 2018: Lillian Cueva’s Review on SDG 11: Cities
Unequal structures, including the current economic model, lead to: climate change and ecological degradation; militarization and conflict; unjust ecosystem, financial, trade and investment gove [...]
HLPF 2018: Shaila Shahid as Lead Discussant, SDG 11, Cities
Ensuring girls’ and women’s participation and safety in cities requires a gender transformative approach to achieve systemic change. It includes empowering women and girls, designing future cities [...]
HLPF 2018: Isis Alvarez’s Intervention on Perspectives of LDCs, LLDCs and MICs
Women’s equal participation and leadership in decisions that affect them and their communities is a prerequisite for building resilient societies. Isis Alvarez (GFC, Colombia) delivered her com [...]
Mapping the gap: barriers and opportunities for CS in VNRs
Save the Date! The Women's Major Group invites you to join the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) at the "Mapping the gap: barriers and opportunities for CS in VNRs" [...]
HLPF 2018: Amasai Jeke’s Intervenion on Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies: SIDS perspective
"There is no time to exclude any community, including women of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, our islands are sinking we are literally drowning. Species of all kinds, [...]
HLPF 2018: Cities, Human Settlements, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Human rights obligations, such as under the Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) including its general recommendations, must be met at all levels of governmen [...]
HLPF 2018: Energy, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Women’s leadership in sustainable energy production can help influence policy and regulation to protect people, communities and the planet from contamination from open pit mining, strip mining, mo [...]
HLPF 2018: Nozipho Wright’s Review on SDG 7, Energy
The WMG, commend member states and development partners for work done so far to integrate gender issues in energy policies and programmes. Though it has taken almost 20 years to reach this minima [...]
HLPF 2018: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Lack of access to water, sanitation and hygiene services undermines human rights and gender equality, exacerbates poverty and prevents achievement of other goals, including health, education and [...]
High-level Political Forum 2018: “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”
This year, the HLPF on Sustainable Development with the theme: "Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies", will be held from Monday, 9 July, to Wednesday, 18 July 2018. The three- [...]