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The Women’s Major Group Role and Organisation
The Women’s Major Group was created at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, where governments recognized Women as one of the nine important groups in society to achieve sustainable development. Since 1992, the Women’s Major Group has been recognized by the United Nations in the UN processes on Sustainable Development and since 1996 in the processes of the United Nations Environment Program.The Women’s Major Group takes responsibility for facilitating women’s civil society input into the policy space provided by the United Nations (participation, speaking, submission of proposals, access to documents). The WMG is self-organised and open to all interested organisations working to promote human rights based sustainable development with a focus on women’s human rights, women’s empowerment and gender equality. http://www.womenmajorgroup.org/about-us/who-we-are/
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Women’s Major Group
10 Red Flags for the Zero
Draft of the Outcome Document for the UN Summit to Adopt the Post-2015
Development Agenda
The Post-2015 has the potential
to create a new global paradigm for just, sustainable and rights-based
development. The Women’s Major Group (WMG) has been part of the process to help
devise a transformative agenda that is able to address the fundamental
inequalities between people and inequities between countries, while promoting a
rights-based approach to development that puts people, particularly women, at
its center. On the eve of negotiations on the zero draft of the outcome
document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda of the
Post-2015 Political Declaration and its various components, the WMG is releasing
10 Red Flags to highlight areas that need to be strengthened to achieve
the transformative change we envision.
The elements that will be
negotiated to decide on the Post-2015 agenda include the political declaration,
chapeau to the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and follow up and
review. Another substantive part of the Post-2015 agenda concerns the Means of
Implementation (including the Technology Facilitation Mechanism), which are
being discussed under the Financing for Development (FfD) platform. The WMG
calls for an ambitious outcome in the Addis Ababa meeting that will ensure the
resources, capacities, and technologies needed for the full implementation of
the post-2015 development agenda.
10 Red Flags
1.
Gender equality and the human rights of women and girls must be recognized as a
cross-cutting issue critical for the success of the post-2015 development
agenda
2.
Commitments to human rights and inclusivity must be strengthened
3.
Commitments to civil society and major group participation must be strengthened
4.
The role of feminist and women’s organisations must be recognized and supported
5.
The role of the private sector must be regulated and its social, economic and
environmental impacts assessed and remedied where appropriate
6.
The Political Declaration must emphasise commitments to the wellbeing of people
and the planet
7.
The Vision and the Call for Action need to acknowledge the way in which the
current economic model has contributed to inequalities and environmental degradation
8.
The goals and targets proposed by the Open Working Group should be fully
endorsed, and there should be a clear path to devise ambitious indicators for
the SDGs
9.
Means of Implementation must be prioritised for the Post-2015 agenda
10. The commitments to
monitoring, review and accountability must outline comprehensive processes for
national, regional and global reviews