As response to the Open Working Group (OWG) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the Post-2015 Women's Coalition developed a Feminist Response to the latest draft of Goals and Targets on Sustainable Development. The main purpose of this document is to frame and influence, from a critical feminist perspective, the evolving discussions around the SDGs. As a member of the Post-2015 Women's Coalition, the Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) supports and contributed to the Feminist Response, as we find it important that women's voices are included in the development of the SDGs.
Since the OWG sessions will continue on the content of the proposed goals and targets, which are bound to change as the discussion develops, the Feminist Response is a working document, to be adjusted within the SDG process.
From the Feminist Response:
"To uphold human rights obligations and realize the “transformational shifts” envisaged in current development discussions, business as usual is no longer an option. The red line for policymaking must be the realization of gender equality and human rights, rather than growth and profit as ends in themselves. This means moving power away from corporate interests and toward marginalized peoples, women and communities. It means championing political action to overturn current discriminatory, oppressive and violent social, political, and economic systems and develop, invest in, and implement those that create an enabling environment for women’s rights, equality, and sustainable peace. We reiterate the need for Member States to develop goals, targets and indicators that lead to structural changes in relations of power, consumption patterns, and the distribution of resources."
Contributors:
AFM
ARROW
AWID
Bahai International Community
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Delta Women
Equality Now
Equidad
femLINKPACIFIC
Gender & Development Network
Global Partnership for Local Action
GPPAC
Huairou Commission
IT for Change
Karama
Landesa
WILPF/PeaceWomen
Women Peacemakers Program
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7 Nov '17 On Thursday, 26 October 2017, a side event entitled, “Pulling the Rug from Under Our Feet: What is the UNSCR 1325 Without Civil Society Freedoms?” was hosted on the margins of the 17th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325. The event was hosted by the Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) and the Dutch Mission, in collaboration with Duke Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, Al-Hayat Center for Civil Society Development, Arab Women Organisation of Jordan, NOVACT, Free Sight Association, Iraqi Al-Amal Association, Women Empowerment Organisation, NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. This article briefly looks at the main issues discussed during the event.
