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Fourth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
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Response to the Report of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
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Feminists urge High Level Panel to include Women’s and Young People’s Priorities in Post 2015
May 14, 2013 Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Rights in the Post-2015 Framework Dear Members of the High Level Panel: As you meet to finalize your recommendations for the Secretary General, we write to reiterate the calls of women’s human rights, youth and gender justice advocates at the High Level Panel Meeting in [...]
Migration in the UN – the World’s Hot Potato
This year’s 46th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development took place between 21 and 26th April 2013 and reviewed the theme “New trends in migration: demographic aspects”. Negotiations on the Resolution from this meeting were a unique opportunity for Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR) NGOs and organizations working on migrants’ [...]
Agenda Post 2015, la Consulta de Alto Nivel
Text by Eugenia López Uribe originally posted here La semana pasada se llevó a cabo la Consulta Regional de América Latina y el Caribe sobre la Agenda Post 2015. La Sociedad Civil ha participado en esta consulta posicionando los grandes temas de los derechos históricamente postergados. Como parte del proceso de revisión de la Agenda [...]
Ishita Chaudhry at High-Level Task Force Global Launch
On 25 April 2013 the High-Level Task Force for ICPD organized an event to launch its policy recommendations for ICPD beyond 2014.The document, available here stresses the need for fulfillment of sexual and reproductive rights, achieving universal access to SRHR information, education and services, including safe abortion, provision of comprehensive sexuality education to young people [...]
Statement on Youth from Bonn Post-2015 Conference Open for Endorsements
Here you can read and sign the Session Statement On Securing A Decent Future For All Children, Youth and Adolescents prepared by a working group during the “Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda” conference in Bonn. The statement, prepared among others by members of RESURJ and Astra Youth network calls for access and good quality [...]
A Call from the Arab Caucus at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, as represented in the Arab Caucus at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), are deeply concerned with the role of the leadership of our countries in the negotiations on the crucial issue of violence against women and girls. At this session, our governments are increasingly using [...]
Women’s Major Group Statement from Bonn Conference “Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda”
WE WILL NOT BE MAINSTREAMED INTO A POLLUTED STREAM: FEMINIST VISIONS OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR ACHIEVING WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY IN THE 2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA[1] 21 March 2013, Bonn Statement We caution against developing another set of reductive goals, targets and indicators that ignore the transformational changes required to address the failure of [...]
RESURJ Welcomes 57th UN CSW Agreements on Ending Violence Against Women
On 15 March UN Member States gathered at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women adopted the Agreed Conclusions in which they have committed to ending violence against women and girls, promote gender equality, women’s empowerment, and ensure reproductive rights and access to sexual and reproductive health services. The two-week session [...]
OUR BODY, OUR RIGHTS!
TELL WORLD LEADERS: Protect our sexual and reproductive rights today and for the next generations! Sign the petition: https://campaigns.amnesty.org/actions/sexual-and-reproductive-rights
RESURJ Contributes to the Post-2015 Discussions
Young People and Inequalities – Recommendations for a Post-2015 Development Agenda By REALIZING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE (RESURJ)* Beginning at the age of nine or ten and continuing at least until the late teens, adolescents’ sexual thoughts, emotions, desires, attitudes, and behaviors develop rapidly. At the same time, young people experience rapid physical maturation [...]
