The Women’s Major Group has endorsed the statement initiated by global South feminists including: BRICS Feminist Watch and its members: PWESCR, The Inequality Movement, GenDeV Center for Research and Innovation, Espaco Feminista, Feminist Land Platform, IWRAW- AP, FEIM and Reclaiming Narratives.
Click here to read the full statement.
The statement raises concerns around the following for G20 countries:
- Wide consultations with feminist groups and CSOs globally and at the country level;
- Include issues of right to health and wellbeing including SRHR;
- Have track on gender equality within the G20 with integrated monitoring and evaluation systems;
- Ratification ILO Convention No. 190 and all international and regional conventions relating to VAWG along with fulfilling several international commitments on gender equality;
- Support and create provisions for women’s rights to land and productive resources and their control and ownership over the assets;
- Put gender at centre to recovery process, vaccine equity, public investments in care economy and social protection mechanisms during COVID-19 pandemic;
- Ensure that Afghan women’s and girls’ rights are guaranteed and prevented;
- Promote and strengthen existing feminist efforts including financial inclusion, sustainable energy and digital literacy for gender equality.
