Land rights / tenure
Draft Short Report from Major Groups and Stakeholders from UNEA5
Last week, the Women's Major Group had a strong presence at the online consultations with Major Groups and other Stakeholders and the bureau of Member States for UNEA 5. Representing WMG, Isis Alvarez [...]
HLPF 2018: Land, Biodiversity, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Despite playing a major role in biodiversity conservation, forest management and restoration—such as through intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge, keeping seeds, energy generati [...]
HLPF 2018: Katia Araujo’s Review of the SDG 15
Insecure land rights for women and communities is also a key threat to forests and gender equality. Women own less than 20% of the world’s land and in more than half of all countries. Additionally [...]
HLPF 2018: Gertrude Kenyangi’s intervention as Lead Discussant on SGD 15
A policy is only as good as its implementation. It is important to ensure that policies translate into practice. The entire value chain, from the global to the national to the grassroots must be [...]
HLPF 2018: Land, Biodiversity, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
"Laws, policies, programs, and services must fully and intentionally integrate a gender-responsive approach in their formulation and delivery. They must engage and recognize women and indigenous p [...]
HLPF 2017: Mari-Claire Price QA Response on Leveraging interlinkages for effective implementation of SDGs
"We are expecting a strong ministerial declaration coming out of this meeting, that tackles these issues, as well as strong language on Means of Implementation AND on Women Human Rights! We will [...]
HLPF 2017: Nalini Singh’s remarks as an official speaker at the “Session on Review of SDG 5”
"Systemic and Structural Barriers to Achieving Gender Equality which perpetuate and entrench discrimination against women include: 1. Patriarchy and the rise of authoritarian governance; 2. Milita [...]
HLPF 2017: Meena Bilgil’s Intervention as Lead Discussant on the Session on SDG5
"Key to transformation is empowerment of small-scale producers including women, youth, indigenous peoples, pastoralists and fishers, who will continue to make up the vast majority of food producer [...]
HLPF 2017: Viva Tatawaqa’s Opening Session Intervention on “Where are we in year two of implementation of the 2030 Agenda?”
"[The HLPF] is where we should ensure that the roles of multiple actors, but particularly those of communities, social movements and civil society are clearly and substantively reflected in the Mi [...]
Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting- CSD17: Lesha Witmer intervention
Read Lesha Witmer's (Chair Commission SD Netherlands Women’s Council) statement delivered on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the IPM session on CSD 17, held in New York, from 23-27 February [...]