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GENDER & THE MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Millennium Development Goals
Website:
Link to Millennium Development Goals
UN Report 2010:
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Direct Link to Full 14-Page Document
- 12 July 2010 - Advance
Unedited Summary:
MDG's Informal Interactive Hearings of the UN General Assembly
with NGO's, Civil Society, & the Private Sector
Excerpts:
*335 NGO's, civil society and
private sector organizations participated in the hearings, together with Member
States and observers. Well over l/2 of the participants were women.
*Many participants welcome the
Secretary-General's insistence on a holistic approach to the MDG's.....The
MDG's have a number of targets designed to redress some of the most glaring
gender inequalities, where there has been greater progress on access to
education for girls than on reducing maternal mortality.
*The mutual responsibility of
developed and developing countries to meet the MDG's by 2015 depends on
strengthening the frameworks for accountability......A gender and social
exclusion based audit of the MDG's - undertaken in full cooperation with civil
society - was seen as an essential immediate step to be taken in the new
2010-2015 accountability framework.....
*Principle Recommendations:
d. Guarantee the full and
effective participation of civil society organizations, including
women's
organizations, indigenous peoples and grassroots organizations of the poor,
in the
design, planning, implementation and monitoring of all MDG-related programmes
and
policies. This further implies guaranteeing the rights to freedom of
expression,
information,
assembly, and association.
g. Governments should
strengthen their commitment to advancing gender equality and
women's
empowerment as cross-cutting priorities for reaching all goals by 2015.
Women's
organizations and grassroots women must have formal mechanisms of
meaningful
and systematic participation in the new UN gender entity at global,
regional,
and national levels.
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