Regions
Small Island Development State Issues: Final Preparatory Committee meeting
We also urge governments to consider both targeted and universal social floor and social protection measures for young women and girls including but not limited to young women with disabilities, yo [...]
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2014: Noelene Nabulivou’s Intervention
This is the time for clear leadership and common vision on how to include those left behind, with gender equality and women’s human rights and an ecosphere approach, as core to sustainable develop [...]
Small Island Development Final Prepcom Meeting: Noelene Nabulivou’s Intervention
We call for clear and transparent channels from pre-conference actions to the main plenary, we call for integrated MG spaces in the plenary itself, as already agreed, and for the partnerships round [...]
Women Major Group Statement on Small Island Development (SIDS)
So there is an urgent need in the outcome document to make more gender and development links clear, and to adequately reflect gender and climate change causality factors in political will, funding [...]
Pacific Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Response and Sustainable Development
We remind the Pacific States of their obligations and accountability to translate gender equality and human rights commitments into legislation, policy and budget allocations, and to make these nor [...]
Statement of Women’s Organizations for Small Island Development States (SIDS)
For small island peoples, the existential threat to our islands and the current pressure from SIDS-specific social, economic and ecological justice concerns means that the upcoming SIDs 3rd global [...]
6OWG on SDGs: Kafui Afiwa Kuwonu’s Intervention on Africa Issues
Kafui Afiwa Kuwonu (Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) and Femmes, Droit Et Développement en Afrique (FeDDAF) ) presented a combined position paper on behalf of the Women's Major Group [...]
6th Session of Open Working Group (6OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy statement on special country needs of Small Island Development States (SIDS)
The Women’s Major Group asserts that the current global development system plays a major role in exacerbating patriarchal inequalities. The small scale, ecological complexity, and remoteness of mos [...]
Aizhamal Bakashova presented the joint policy recommendations from all the Women’s organisations at the ESCAP Forum on Sustainable Development Post-2015, 19 May, Pataya, Thailand
Read Aizhamal Bakashova's presentation at the ESCAP Forum on Sustainable Development Post-2015, 19 May, Pataya, Thailand. Download here. [...]
Africa Common Position on Post 2015, Istanbul 2013
The African Women's regional statement was prepared as a result of a women's strategy and capacity building meeting held on the 9th-11th of November in Istanbul, Turkey, prior to the UN ECA Women and [...]