UN-NGLS (United Nations Non Government Liaison Service) is delivering a series of policy briefs to the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) presenting civil society recommendations on the subjects in focus during their sessions.
Civil society networks advocated for a universal, interlinked, multi-sectoral, and holistic approach to the SDGs that upholds the achievement of women's human rights and gender equality as central to the achievement of sustainable development. Contributors issued a resounding call for both a standalone goal on gender equality and women's human rights and the "mainstreaming" of gender equality and women's human rights through comprehensive targets and indicators in the SDGs.
Recognizing that women from socially excluded communities face multiple forms of discrimination, the SDGs must include a strong focus on the achievement of equity and social justice.
The process of developing the post-2015 agenda presents an opportunity to rethink the prevailing development model: several networks emphasized the need for the SDGs to stimulate profound and transformational change to the structures and systems that govern the lives of women and men. Contributors underscored that gender-equitable sustainable development cannot be achieved under the prevailing neo-liberal economic model
Here is the link to the latest Policy Brief on Women's Human Rights and Gender Equality -
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