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Global
Member State Leaders Meeting on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment:
Commitment to Action!
Women/Gender & The Post-2015
Development Agenda
We are now at a critical time in history. Twenty years after the
landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and at a time when the
global community is defining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the
post-2015 era, the international discourse on the need to achieve gender
equality is stronger than ever before. We have made formidable gains in
awareness, laws and some policies, but implementation of commitments is uneven
and slow. Further, women’s human rights defenders are under attack in too many
countries. The adoption of a new development framework and the Sustainable
Development Goals in September 2015 is the next critical moment when the
international community can highlight increased action and investment for
gender equality, women’s rights and women’s and girls’ empowerment at the
center of the global agenda for sustainable development.
In this context, the People’s Republic of China and UN Women
will co-organize and co-host the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender
Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action, to be
held on Sunday, 27 September 2015, starting at 9.00 am at United
Nations Headquarters in New York.
The Meeting will be convened in conjunction with the United
Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, to be held from 25 to 27 September
2015, in New York. The meeting will call upon Member States and other
policy makers to make clear commitments to the accelerated implementation of
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, of CEDAW, and achievement of
gender equality within the timeframe of the post-development agenda that
is, to deliver demonstrable results by 2030.
Urge your leaders to make specific and
transformative commitments!
This is an opportunity to demand genuine and renewed political
commitment, at the highest possible level, for the full implementation of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and realization of the gender
equality goals and targets in the post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable
Development Goals, as well as other international commitments to women’s rights
made at other relevant UN events.
Lobby your governments between now and the summit in September
so that they can make strong and clear commitments that will ensure real
progress towards gender equality in your country, region and in the world.
Governments willingness to set clear targets that are in line with priorities
of women’s movements – from achieving parity in the number of women holding
decision-making positions in the public and private sector to eliminating
gender-based wage gaps or impunity for sexual violence – will make it easier
for local groups and the global community to monitor progress and call for
accountability.
Specific commitments should be made in cooperation with women’s
movements, human rights defenders, and other NGOS and could be related to
things such as:
What women’s movements and civil society
advocates can do to influence leaders between now and September:
It is useful to coordinate your actions with local, regional and global women’s and other NGO/CSO groups that are working for women’s rights and gender equality in the post 2015 process, such as the Women’s Coalition for Post 2015 at http://www.post2015women.com and the Women’s Major Group at http://www.womenmajorgroup.org/