Women's Caucus Statement
Bali High Level Panel Meeting
 (March 24, 2013 Bali Indonesia)

There will be no development, there will be no progress, unless there is a clear and uncompromising commitment to women's rights and gender equality and justice. The post-2015 agenda must be based on the principle of non-regression and firmly rooted in human rights obligations and commitments from the UN conferences of the 1990s and their follow ups, which are yet to be fully implemented. As women we say a "promise is a promise" and we demand that these promises now are kept.

We insist on a new development paradigm that is based on principles of human rights, equality and redistributive justice. The international community must commit to real reforms of the monetary, financial and trade regimes that perpetuate inequalities and violence and undermine women's and girls' human rights. Global macroeconomic structures must be coherent with governments’ human rights obligations. Governments, private philanthropy organizations, investors, micro finance institutions and transnational corporations must be held accountable to human rights, to principles of equality and equity, non-discrimination, and environmental sustainability norms and standards. We demand new models of global partnership that are truly democratic, non-exploitative and sustainable and where women, girls and those most affected have the greatest voice.

The current development model, which gives corporations control over our natural wealth, water and resources, as well as technology and intellectual property, while depriving women of land and food sovereignty, undermines gender equality, sends communities into conflict with governments, increases militarization, and women's vulnerability to violence and economic shock. This must change.

The new development framework must recognise that patriarchal systems and practices are a major impediment for development. Ending violence against women and girls and promoting democratic empowerment and leadership of women at home, in the community, nationally and internationally is a fundamental prerequisite for women’s rights enjoyment, gender equality, sustainable development and genuine democracy.

Rising fundamentalisms that manifest in attempts to control women’s bodies and freedoms must be countered. Governments must never use cultural, traditional or religious values to avoid their obligations to respect, protect and fulfill the full range of women's human rights and prevent and address violence. Women's and girls' rights to bodily autonomy and integrity are fundamental to our ability to enjoy other human rights. No form of violence impeding on women’s and girls' bodily integrity should be tolerated and no limitation of our rights to make our own informed sexual and reproductive choices should be accepted.

We demand that the Post-2015 development agenda aims to fairly redistribute wealth, power and resources to achieve social, economic, ecological, and gender justice, rather than be driven by donors and the corporate sector. It must include means of implementation that prioritize public financing over public-private partnerships in order to realize state obligations to allocate the maximum available resources to economic and social services.

Gender inequalities must be understood and addressed from an intersectional approach and the post-2015 development framework must recognize how factors such as age, race, caste, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, poverty, migration status, and location can compound stigma, discrimination, social exclusion and marginalization and lead to violence, as well as other violations of women's rights. Specific attention is needed to address the violence and rights violations faced by girls, adolescent and young women, women human rights defenders, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer women, indigenous women, rural women, sex workers, women with disabilities, women living with HIV, women working in conflict and militarized contexts, women migrant workers, displaced women, women from language minorities and women who use drugs, among others.

We demand the new development framework includes a dedicated gender equality goal, as well as specific targets and indicators that are integrated throughout the framework. It is critical that the post-2015 agenda commit to:

• End all forms of gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence and sexual violence and address its intersections with HIV infection. Set targets to reduce militarization and conflict by limiting military budgets.
• Guarantee sexual and reproductive rights as fundamental human rights, along with women's and girls' universal access to quality, comprehensive and integrated sexual and reproductive health services, including contraceptives, safe abortion, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and HIV, and safe maternity care;
• Include specific goals for reducing inequalities of wealth, power and resources between countries, between rich and poor, between men and women; 
• Ensure women’s rights to and control over land, property, including intellectual property, productive resources, information and technology, and promote fair asset distribution among different social groups;
• Guarantee women’s economic independence including by ensuring that women have access to decent work including legal protection for sex workers and domestic workers, a living wage that enables women to live with dignity, and affordable child care;
• Recognize women's role in the care economy and ensure their rights to social protection and the equal distribution of paid and unpaid work;
• Guarantee investments in public services such as in child care, education and elderly care in order to eliminate the sexual division of labour;
• Guarantee women’s rights to participate in leadership and decision-making at all levels, including in economic and social development and international financial institutions;
• Repeal laws and policies that discriminate on the basis of gender; criminalize or marginalize specific groups of women based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, participation in sex work, or other status; or erect barriers to services, and adopt measures to counter discriminatory practices and ensure women’s access to justice; and
• Guarantee universal access by women and girls to quality education throughout the life course, including comprehensive sexuality education and education on human rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability, and ensure women’s and girls’ literacy.

Sustainable development must fully be integrated into the post-2015 framework, building on existing commitments. Women's role in responding to climate change, protecting and safeguarding the environment, ensuring sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty must also be recognized.

Innovative, democratic financing mechanisms that allocate specific resources to women’s rights and gender equality must be a priority. Women must be involved in the development and monitoring of budgets at all levels.

The post-2015 agenda must ensure that women-led systems of monitoring and accountability are built into the framework, with clear and time-bound commitments. Data must be disaggregated on the basis of age, sex, and other status important to identify, make visible and respond to inequalities. Mechanisms of data collection and analysis for monitoring the new framework must be transparent and inclusive of input from women’s groups. National mechanisms, such as judiciaries, parliaments, and national human rights institutions, should be empowered to oversee implementation of the post-2015 framework and allow for women's access to justice when commitments are not met.

The post-2015 development framework must hold governments accountable for their duty to exercise oversight over and regulate private actors, especially corporate and private financial actors to guarantee they respect women’s human rights, including in their cross-border activities.

The UN system must also be held to account for their role in promoting and protecting women's rights, including by bringing pressure to bear on governments to implement their human rights obligations.

The United Nations and Member States must address in an integrated way the obstacles to gender equality at global, national, and local levels. Rather than remaining centered on the distribution of dwindling aid funds or the effective incorporation of the private sector, the post-2015 framework must provide clear guidelines on how to respond to the multiple crises that affect women globally, particularly in the global South.

To enable a transformative global partnership, the vital role of women’s movements must be recognized. Resources must be directed to feminist movement building and advocacy to ensure equality, human rights, democratic governance, and transformative change and development for all.

Singed by:

ActionAid
Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development (ACORD)
Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (APA)
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Asian Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW)
Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE)
Asociacion Rexch’ och’ Oxlaju Aj (Tierra Verde 13 Aj), Guatemala
ASTRA Network
Brazilian Confederation of Private Nature Resources
Center for Community Development and Education (CCDE) Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Center for Health, Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA)
Centro de Investigación para la Acción Femenina (CIPAF)
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Diverse Voices and Action for Equality, Fiji
Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits, Inc. (ECOWEB), Philippines
Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), Argentina
IPPF
IPPF/WHR
Indonesia National Network of Sex Worker (OPSI)
International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC)
Likhaan Center for Women's Health, Philippines
NGO Federation of Nepal
NGO Forum on ADB
Niger Delta Women's movement for Peace and Development
Oxfam Indonesia
Pathfinder International
Perkumpulan Sada Ahmo (PESADA)
Philippine Network of Rural Development Institutes
Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement
Philippine Social Enterprise Network
PRRM
Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ)
Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM)
Social Watch Philippines
Wada Na Todo Abhiyan
WECF International
Women's Capacity Building and Development Organization (WCBDO)
Women for Sustainable Development Japan (WSDJ)

Individuals:
Carmen Capriles (Reacción Climática), Bolivia
Hilda Saeed (Shirkat Gah), Pakistan
Ketty Kadarwati (USAID Indonesia)
Marilou Pantua-Juanito (VSO Bahaginan)
Osprey Orielle Lake, Women's Earth and Climate Caucus
Saraj Gurung (WOREC), Nepal
Renu Rajbhandari (NAWHRD), Nepal

WE WILL NOT BE MAINSTREAMED INTO A POLLUTED STREAM:
FEMINIST VISIONS OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR ACHIEVING WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY IN THE 2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

22 March 2013

This Women's Major Group statement was read at the international NGO conference on ‘Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda: Reconfirming Rights – Recognising Limits – Redefining Goals‘ was held from 20-22 March 2013 in Bonn, Germany.

We caution against developing another set of reductive goals, targets and indicators that ignore the transformational changes required to address the failure of the current development model rooted in unsustainable production and consumption patterns exacerbating gender, race and class inequities.

We do not want to be mainstreamed into a polluted stream. We call for deep and structural changes to existing global systems of power, decision-making and resource sharing. This includes enacting policies that recognize and redistribute the unequal and unfair burdens of women and girls in sustaining societal wellbeing and economies, intensified in times of economic and ecological crises.

Any Post-2015 development agenda must be based on the principle of non-regression, firmly rooted in human rights obligations and commitments from the UN conferences of the 1990s and gains made through their follow up processes at regional and global levels . They must also proactively address increasing inequalities within and between countries, feminization of poverty, discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity, commodification of natural resources, threats to food sovereignty, global warming, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.

We insist that the Post-2015 development agenda must not be driven by the donor or corporate sectors. Rather, it must be articulated through a progressive policy framework that aims to fairly redistribute wealth, assets, and power to achieve social, economic, ecological, and erotic justice. It must also tackle intersecting inequalities and multiple forms of discrimination based on gender, age, class, caste, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and abilities.

The Post-2015 Development Agenda must:

• Prioritise gender equality and women’s human rights throughout the framework.

• Ensure meaningful participation of women's and social movements in the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of development policies and programs.

• Use the human rights architecture as its basis and include concrete means of implementation that prioritize public financing over public-private partnerships in order to realise states obligation to allocate the maximum availability of resources.

• Promote innovative, democratic financing mechanisms, including long-term, flexible support for civil society organizations, including women's organizations.

• Recognize that there are ecological limits to the ‘growth’ paradigm and that sustainable development must be safeguarded from corporations and States that prioritise profit over all.

• Respect and build upon then overarching principle of equitable sharing of atmospheric space, between and also within States, taking into account intergenerational justice. It also implies respecting the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, which considers historic economic, ecological and social debt responsibility.

• Urgently reform monetary, financial and trade rules globally in line with human rights obligations, that ensure policy space at the national level to implement macroeconomic policies, trade and investment agreements to achieve gender and social justice.

• Create global and national binding rules and safeguards including by applying the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. For instance, this is central to the protection of bio-cultural users of land and natural resources from negative impacts of extractive industries, and large-scale monocultures.

• Ensure that Agenda 21 and Rio+20 commitments on technology transfer, monitoring and assessment, skills development and research are explicit in all investment and trade regimes, and in line with the precautionary principle and principle of free, prior informed consent as critical ecosystem protection.

• Reaffirm the moratorium on geo-engineering in order to prevent the unsustainable technological and market based fixes that attempt the large-scale manipulation of the earth’s climate such as managing solar radiation, extracting carbon from the atmosphere, and modifying the weather.

• Phase-out, eliminate financial support, and impose moratoria on harmful economic activities which affect the health of people and the environment, particularly in the areas of mining, nuclear energy, and chemicals.

• Promote safe and sustainable energy solutions that prevent negative impacts on the health of people and of the planet and that do not further deplete existing community resources.

• Re-orient national agricultural plans from extractive industries and export-oriented agribusiness toward local women-led and small-holder agro-ecology practices.

• Include strong protection of local free seed supply and distribution systems in order to reverse the environmental and social impacts caused by food insecurity, soil degradation and land grabbing, on all affected communities including migrants, fisher, forest and indigenous peoples, pastoralists, and many other marginalized communities.

• Guarantee women's equitable access to and control over resources that promote fair asset redistribution among different social groups regarding the use of land, ocean, credits, technology, intellectual and cultural property.

• Affirm the human rights of women, girls and people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities to bodily integrity. Eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence based on misogynist, homophobic, lesbian phobic, and trans-phobic ideas. Specific attention is also needed to address the violence faced by women human rights defenders, sex workers, and women working in conflict and militarized contexts, among others.

• Guarantee sexual and reproductive rights and universal access, to quality, comprehensive, integrative sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, safe abortion, STI and HIV prevention and treatment, and maternity care with an emphasis on equity and respect for diversity.

• Recognise that care and social reproduction are intrinsically linked with the productive economy and therefore fully reflected in macroeconomic policy-making. States should guarantee universal access to public care services and private sector regulation to ensure quality and decent working conditions and income for care providers. The post-2015 agenda should promote policies that shift patriarchal cultural norms in order to promote equitable distribution of care work between men and women and diverse families.

• Ensure equitable and universal access to formal and popular education throughout the life cycle that includes comprehensive sexuality education, gender equality, human rights and environmental sustainability.

• Tackle gendered labour market segregation, and ensure universal and affordable access to social protection and public services including housing, education, water and sanitation, health care and unemployment benefits.

We demand a transparent and democratic process in the development of the Post 2015 agenda where feminist, human rights, environmental and social justice movements' claims are prioritized over politically and economically dominant elites and States.

This statement is endorsed by:

Women International for a Common Future ,WECF/WICF
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN
Global Forest Coalition
Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice, RESURJ, Mexico
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
International Women's Health Coalition
Diverse Voices and Action for Equality, Fiji
Bismarck Ramu Group, Papua New Guinea
Women and Media Collective, Sri Lanka
Third World Network, India
Social Watch
Global Policy Forum Europe
REPEM LAC Red de Educacion Popular Entre Mujeres Latinoamérica y el Caribe
Red de Educación Popular entre Mujeres de Latinoamérica y el Caribe
Feminist Task Force
Association for Women's Rights in Development, AWID
Action Aid International
Young Women's Christian Association YWCA, Worldwide
ASTRA Youth Network of Youth Advocates for Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights in Central & Eastern Europe Poland
Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Lebanon
César Neftal Artiga Cartagena Asociación Nueva Vida Pro-Ninez y Juventud, El Salvador
Sex og Politikk - the Norwegian Association for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), India
National Platform of Dalit Women, India
Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) Bangladesh
International Network of Women's Funds
Action Network for Migrant Workers (ACTFORM), Sri Lanka
Catholics for a Free Choice / Bolivia
SANGRAM, India
VAMP, India
Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), Ghana
Women for Sustainable Development, Japan
CHIRAPAQ - Center for Indigenous Cultures of Peru
Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas – ECMIA
The African Women's Development and Communication Network -FEMNET
Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (APA)
Coordination of flemish north south movement, Belgium
Both ENDS, Netherlands
Cameroon Youth Movement for Citizenship (CYMC) , Cameroon
Centre for Human Rights and Development Studies (CHRDS), Serbia
Niger Delta Women's movement for Peace and Development
WUNRN, Women's UN Report Network
ASTRA Network, Poland
Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland
Gender and Environmental Risk Reduction Initiative (GERI), Benue State
Gender Action on Climate Change for Equality and Sustainability (GACCES), Ghana
Children Rights and Development Association, Turkey
Climate Change and Development NGO Alliance, Azerbaijan
Coordinación de ONG y Cooperativas (CONGCOOP), Guatemala
Danish Family Planning Association, Denmark
Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits (ECOWEB), inc, Philippines
FOCO-Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos, Argentina
Fundacion Etnica Integral, Dominican Republic
Global Campaign Against Poverty
Green Life Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
IDS Sussex and independent researcher, Germany,
International Planned Parenthood Federation, Bolivia
Iraqi Alamal Association, Iraq
Journey, Maldives
NGO Federation of Nepal, Nepal
Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement / GCAP Philippines, Philippines
Rotaract BOMBACACEAE MAJUNGA, Madagascar
Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development, Uganda
Unión Nacional de Instituciones para el Trabajo de Acción Social (UNITAS), Bolivia
Womens Advocates Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone
Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Philippines
Women's Society for Sustainable Development, Iran
The Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement, Egypt
Women's Earth and Climate Caucus, USA
The Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action - Trinidad and Tobago
Partners in Sexual Health (PSH), Zambia
AIDOS, Italian Association for Women in Development
Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer -FEIM-, Argentina
Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Rutgers University
Population and Sustainability Network
Fiji Women's Rights Movement, Fiji
Women for Women's Human Rights - NEW WAYS
genanet - focal point gender environment sustainability, Germany
Rutgers WPF
IPAS, International
Brazilian Confederation of Private Nature Reserves
SWAN (South Asia Women's Network)
Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI), Liberia
The International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law
Nepal International Consumers Union (1991)
FemLinkpacific - Regional Women's Media and Policy Network on UNSCR1325
Akshara Centre, Mumbai India
Adele Reproductive Health Foundation, Cameroon
Nur Amalia (Indonesian Women Association for Justice - APIK)
Drodrolagi Movement, Fiji
Oceania Pride, Fiji
International Alliance of WomenAIDS Accountability International, South Africa
Women Won't Wait Campaign (Global)
Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha -SANGRAM, India
Reconstruction Women's Fund, Serbia
Voice of Difference, Serbia
Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), International/Asia-Pacific
Women for Women's Human Rights - NEW WAYS
Pathfinder International
The International Women's Anthropology Conference (IWAC)
The Second Chance Fd., NYC, USA
Pacific Women’s Watch (New Zealand) Inc.
Abuntu for Development, Ghana
African Women's Millennium Initiative (AWOMI), Senegal
Action Canada for Population and Development
KULU-Women and Development, Denmark,
Vision Spring Initiatives, Lagos Nigeria
Global Justice Institute
Countdown 2015 Europe (International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network – IPPF EN, Brussels
Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung,DSW, Germany
Equilibres et Populations ,E&P,France
European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development,EPF, Brussels
Interact Worldwide, UK
Marie Stopes International Brussels Office,MSI, Brussels
Sex & Samfund – Danish Family Planning Association, Denmark
Swedish Association for Sexuality Education,RFSU, Sweden
Rutgers WPF, The Netherlands,
Vaëestoliitto – Family Federation of Finland,Finland
Sensoa,Belgium
Irish Family Planning Association,IFPA, Ireland
Sex og Politikk, Norway
Associação para o Planeamento da Família,APF, Portugal
Federación de Planificación Familiar Estatal,FPFE, Spain
Santé sexuelle, Switzerland
Towarzystwo Rozwoju Rodziny,TRR, Poland
Men for Health and Gender Justice Organisation, Botswana
Pacific Women’s Watch (New Zealand) Inc.
Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) - Guyana
Women Enabled, Global
COC Netherlands, the Netherlands
Reproductive Health Matters, London-based/International

Individuals:
Naima von Ritter Figueres
Janot Mendler de Suarez, Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Brigitte Leduc, Gender Equality Adviser, New Caledonia
Maria de Bruyn, SRHR, gender and human rights consultant
Jasmine Kaur - Human rights activist, Fiji
Anush Hayrapetyan, Armenia
Sarah Macharia, Ph.D., Toronto. Canada.
S. Joan Yee, Fiji
Shirley Walters, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Florette Amie TCHIKANKO
Gwendolyn Albert

Endorsements at 17 April 2013- Please contact noelenen@gmail.com if your name has been omitted in error. Endorsements will be updated monthly to October 2013. We also greatly appreciate knowing how/where you have used the statement text in your advocacy work. Check at Women's Major Group website http://www.womenrio20.org for updated versions.

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STATEMENT OF FEMINIST AND WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS ON THE VERY ALARMING
TRENDS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS OF OUTCOME DOCUMENT OF THE 57TH SESSION OF THE
UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN

We, the undersigned organisations and individuals across the globe, are again concerned that the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is wavering in its commitment to advance women’s human rights as demonstrated in the constant negotiation of the language in the outcome document.

On the occasion of celebrating the International Women’s Day we call on the states to reaffirm its commitment to agreed upon standards in
promoting women’s human rights as articulated in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action as well as other international humanitarian and human rights law.

We say NO to any re-opening of negotiations on the already established international agreements on women’s human rights and call on all
governments to demonstrate their commitments to promote, protect and fulfill human rights and fundamental freedoms of women.

We commend those states that are upholding women’s rights in totality. We urge states to reaffirm standards that they have agreed to. Considering the lack of an outcome document last year we hope that this is not the pattern when it comes to advancing women’s human rights agenda. Women’s human rights are not to be negotiated away.

Similar to last year, we strongly hold the position that given the progressive development in the international era on standard setting there
should no longer be any contention on any issues related to the definition and intersectionality of women and girls experiencing violence against women, including in relations to sexual and reproductive health and rights, sexual orientation and gender identity,harmful practices
perpetuated in the context of negative culture and traditions,among others. We remind states that the CSW is the principal global policy-making body dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women with the sole aim of promoting women’s rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields. Its mandate is to ensure the full implementation of existing international agreements on women’s human rights and gender equality.

We strongly demand all governments and the international community to reject any attempt to invoke traditional values or morals to infringe upon human rights guaranteed by international law, nor to limit their scope. Customs, tradition or religious considerations must not be tolerated to justify discrimination and violence against women and girls whether committed by State authorities or by non-state actors. Given the current global activism around violence against women it is imperative that member states take the lead in agreeing on a progressive outcome document that reaffirms its commitments to universal human rights standards.

This is an important moment as we are planning the post 2015 process. The outcome document has to advance women’s human rights and not lower the bar for women’s human rights. Future international negotiations must move forward implementation of policies and programmes that secure the human rights of girls and women.

We call upon the member states of the UN and the various UN human rights and development entities to recognise and support the important role of women’s groups and organisations working at the forefront of challenging traditional values and practices that are intolerant to fundamental human rights norms, standards and principles.

Endorsed by:

Organizations

Acid Survivors Foundation

Actionaid Nigeria

Agricultural Missions, Inc.  (AMI)

Alliance F-Alliance de sociétés féminines suisses

Altsean-Burma

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Amnesty International

Anglican Women's Empowerment (AWE)

Antalya Womens Counselling Center and Solidarity Association

Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)

Asia Safe Abortion Partnership

Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)

Association for Monitoring Gender Equality (CEID), Turkey

Association for Progressive Communications

Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)

Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)

Association pour le développement et de la promotion des droits Humains
(ADPDH)

Association pour le Progrés et la Défense des Droits des Femmes (APDF), Mali

Association Suisse pour les Droits de la Femme - ADF–SVF

ASTRA Network-Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights

Aurat Foundation

Autonomous Women's Center, Serbia

Ayvalık Bağımsız Kadın inisiyatifi, Turkey

Bahamas Crisis Centre

Bahrain Young Ladies Association

BEDARI

Blue Veins

CAFRA, Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, St. Lucia
CAFRA, Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, Trinidad
and Tobago
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies

Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

Caribbean Women's Association

Catholics for the Right to Decide Argentina

Catholics for the Right to Decide Bolivia

Catholics for the Right to Decide Brazil

Catholics for the Right to Decide Chile

Catholics for the Right to Decide Colombia

Catholics for the Right to Decide Ecuador

Catholics for the Right to Decide El Salvador

Catholics for the Right to Decide México

Catholics for the Right to Decide Nicaragua

Catholics for the Right to Decide Paraguay

Catholics for the Right to Decide Perú

CDO Pakistan

Center for Economic and Social Rights

Center for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance (CEWLA)

Center for Partnership Studies

Center for Reproductive Rights

Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Rutgers University

Center for Women Policy Studies

Centre for Research and Action on Peace (KEDE), Greece

Centre for Secular Space

Centre for Social and Gender Research "New Life", Ukraine

Centre for Social Research

CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality

Church Women United
City and County of San Francisco, Department on the Status of Women

Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC), Nigeria

COC Netherlands

Comité d'action contre la traite humaine interne et international

Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de
las Mujeres
(CLADEM)

Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers, RESPECT Network

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Network, Sweden

Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada

Community Development Organization (CDO Pakistan)

CONNECT

Connecting Gender for Development (COGEN), Nigeria

Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights

Dominica National Council of Women

East End Chapter of the National Organization for Women

Education International (EI)

Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

EIMAN

European Women’s Network (ENOW), Greece

Equality Now

Esitlik Izleme (Esitiz), Turkey

European Women's Lobby

EVAWG alliance KP-FATA

EVAWG alliance (ICT)

Executive Committee for NGO Forum on CEDAW -Turkey

Federación Internacional de Mujeres de Carreras Jurídicas

Federation Against Violence Against Women (FAVAW)

Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland

Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack, NY

Femin Ijtihad

Feminist Atelier (FEMA), Cyprus

Feminist Task Force (FTF)

Femmes Juristes Suisse – Women Lawyers Switzerland

FIAN International

Fiji Women's Rights Movement

Flying Broom Women's Communication and Research Association, Turkey

Foreign Spouses Support Group (Malaysia)

Foundation for Women (Thailand)

Foundation for Women's Solidarity Turkey

Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la Mujer (FEIM), Argentina

Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women
and Children
(GAMCOTRAP)

Gay Japan News

Global Allies for Human Rights, Disarmament and Development in Africa (GAHADA
Partners)

Gender and Water Alliance

Gender at Work

Global Health Awareness Research Foundation (GHARF)

Global Fund for Women

Global Justice Center

Global Network of Women Peacebuilders

Greater Los Angeles Chapter of National Committee of UN Women

Group Development Pakistan

Help & Shelter, Guyana

Huairou Commission

The Hunger Project

Institut de recherche et d’études stratégiques de Khyber (IRESK)

Institute for Science and Human Values, Inc.

Institute for Women's Empowerment, Hong Kong

Institute for Women’s Leadership, Rutgers University

Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender (ANIS), Brazil

Interfaith Center of New York
Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization
International Alliance of Women
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
International Federation of Business and Professional Women
International Network of Liberal Women (INLW)
International Peace Bureau
International Public Policy Institute

International Trade Union Confederation

International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law

International Women's Anthropology Conference

International Women's Rights Action Watch

International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)

International Women's Rights Project, Canada

Ipas

Isis International

İstanbul Feminist Collective

Izmir Women Solidarity Association, Turkey

Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

Jamaica Household Workers Union

Kalyanamitra, Indonesia

KARAT Coalition

La Ligue du Droit International des Femmes (LDIF)

Latin American Network of Catholics for the Right to Decide

Lawyers for Justice and Peace (LJP)

MADRE

MARUAH, Singapore

Media Equity Collaborative

Medical Women's International Association (MWIA)

Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation, PUF

Montgomery County NOW

MOVISIE

MUKADDER

Namibia Women's Health Network

National Association for Resource Improvement

National Coalition on Affirmative Action (NCAA)

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA

National Council of Women of Canada

National Council of Women’s Organizations

National Organization of Women, Barbados

Nepal International Consumers UNION

Netherlands Council of Women

Network of Expertise on Gender, Resilience and Interdependent Economics

NGO Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW)

NGO-Coordination post Beijing Switzerland

Ni-Ta-Nee NOW

Niger Delta Women's Movement for Peace and Development (NDWPD)

Nodo Mexicano. El Proyecto del Milenio, A.C.

Northeast Williamsport NOW

Norwegian Association for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (Sex
og Politikk)

Osez Le Féminisme

Overseas Development Institute, Social Development Programme

Oxfam International

PACHAAN

Pacific Women’s Watch (New Zealand), Inc.

Partners for Law in Development, India

Peace X Peace

PEN International

Pennsylvania National Organization for Women

People's Movement For Human Rights Learning (PDHRE)

Perak Women for Women (Malaysia)

PODA

PILIPINA Legal Resources Center, Philippines

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Public Service Alliance of Canada

Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation

Quality of Citizenship, Jamaica

Red de Educación Popular Entre Mujeres de Latinoamerica y el Caribe (REPEM
LAC)

Red de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas, Afrocaribeña y la Diáspora
Red Feminista Frente a la Violencia Contra Las Mujeres (REDFEM), El Salvador

Red Nacional de Jóvenes y Adolescentes para la Salud Sexual y Reproductiva
(RedNac),
Argentina

Red Thread, Guyana

Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America
and the
Caribbean (CATWLAC)

Regards de Femmes

Rights for All Women (RAW), Denmark

Roks, The National Organisation for Women's Shelters and Young Women's
Shelters in
Sweden

ROZAN

Rozaria Memorial Trust

RUMPUN, Indonesia

Rumpun Tjoet Nyak Dien, Indonesia

Rutgers WPF, Netherland

S4 Foundation, Guyana

Safe4Athletes, Los Angeles Ca.

SDPI

SEHER

SERR, USA

Shirakat - Partnership for Development

Shirkat Gah - Women's Resource Centre, Pakistan

Siglo XXIII, El Salvador

Sisters Inside

Sisters in Islam

Sistren Theatre Collective/Groots Jamaica

Socialist Feminist Collective

Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)

Society for Promotion of Education and Development (SPED)

Soroptimist International

SOS line for victims of violence “by your side,” Greece

SOS Sexisme, France

South Hills NOW

SRIA Rwanda Ltd

SUARAM (Malaysia)

SVAMV – Association (faîtière) suisse des familles monoparentales

Swayam, Kolkata, India

Taller Salud, Puerto Rico

Temple of Understanding

Tenaganita (Malaysia)

Terre des Jeunes du Burundi

To Love Children Educational Foundation International, Inc.

UNESCO

United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
United Methodist Women, Global Justice, Community Action and Public Policy
Offices

United Methodist Women, Washington Office of Public Policy

Urban Justice Center

Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC)

Virginia Gildersleeve Fund (VGIF)

Vision Spring Initiatives, Nigeria

WECF

White Ribbon Campaign

WIDE, Network for Women´s Rights and Feminist Perspectives in Development

Widows for Peace through Democracy (WPD)

Womankind Worldwide

WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform

Women Against Rape Inc., Antigua/Barbuda

Women against Violence Europe (WAVE)

Women against Violence Network Serbia

Women Enabled, Inc.

Women & Gender Equality Commission of Guyana

Women Graduates USA

WomenNC

Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) - New Ways, Turkey

Women Graduates-USA
Women Living Under Muslim Laws

Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
(WOCAN)

Women Peacemakers Program

Women Studies Center, Punjabi University Patiala, India
Women Transforming Cities International Society
Women Won't Wait Campaign
Women's Aid Organisation (WAO), Malaysia

Women's Association of Romania

Women's Centre for Change (WCC) Penang, Malaysia

Women’s Coalition, Turkey

Women's Coalition for Justice and Democracy

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Women's Federation for World Peace, Intl.
Women’s Front, Norway

Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

Women's Intercultural Network (WIN)

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia/Delco Branch

Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau (Philippines)

Women's Refugee Commission

Women's Resource and Outreach Centre (WROC), Jamaica

Women's Sports Foundation

Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF)

WORD

Workers Hub for Change (WH4C)

World Federation for Mental Health

World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women

World YWCA

WUNRN, Women's UN Report Network

Zonta International Club Dhaka

Individuals

Joanne Abbensetts

Hassan Said Abdourahman

Waheed Ahmad

Niaz Ahmed

Gwendolyn Albert

Florence Allen

Molly Anderson

Jodi Anthony

Sally Armstrong

Dr. Mary-Wynne Ashford

Katy Beaver

Dr. Wolfgang Benedek

Guerda Benjamin

Cynthia B. Blake

Joddah Bokhari

Amber Bonnici

Paola Brambilla

Marti Britt

Rosalind Buck

Charlotte Bunch

Noreen Campbell

Elaine Chan-Scherer

Marllyn Chang

Hilda Rømer Christensen

Corina Ciechanow

Nadine Commergnat

Emmeline Craig

Aslı Davas

Theresa Derlan Yeh

Claire Desaint

Audrey Desnoes
Mary Diamond
Denise Dias
Emily Doherty

Jocelyn Dow

Josephine Dublin-Prince

Crystal Easton

Cynthia Enloe

Dundeen Ferguson

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

Uche Ewuzie

Lana Finikin

Dr. Helga Foster

Laurice de Gale
A. P. Gautam

Elizabeth Gibbons

Eunice Graham

Stephanie Grant

Shera Grant Clarke

Joan Grant Cummings
Barbara M. Hall

Leila Hessini

Maliha Husain

Leila Jagdeo
Eunadie Johnson

Deborah Kasman

Beata Koropatwa

Dr. Dashurije Koshi
Rebecca Landy

Kate Langlois

Michelle Lee

Dr. Nancy C. Lee

Bette Levy

Shirley Lewis

Georgia Love

Mary MacDonald

Houzan Mahmoud

Havi Mandell

Eleonora Barbieri Masini

Terri Matlock

Norah Matovu Winyi

Caron McCloud

Shiloh Sophia McCloud

Dr. Lyla Mehta

Vera Mehta

Tufail Mohammad

Martha Morgan
Marcia L Morehead

Hasna Moudud

Dr. Fulata L. Moyo

L. Uma Mulnick, DC

Qamar Naseem

Mr Amjad Nazeer

Joyce Neu

Hilary C. Nicholson

Claytine Nisbett
Hina Noureen
Carole A. Oglesby

Muradiye ORAL

Meral Özaygen

Dr Rukhshinda Parveen

Joanne Payton

William Pervaiz

Elly Pradervand

Angela de Prairie, MNM MA

Lily Pulu

Danuta Radzik

Vanda Radzik

Md-Mamunur Rahman

Betty Reardon

Marilyn Rice-Brown

Dr. Kay Richmond
Sonia Robinson
Dr. Marilyn P. Safir

M. Angelica Sepulveda Salinas

Mary Schilder
Maggie Schmeitz
Mab Segrest
Tina Siebers
Kathleen Sloan
Fatou Sow
Ann Stacy
Jerilyn Stapleton
Irene Sullivan

Anne-Marie Swalens

Tenin Toure

Linnette Vassell

Annette Wagner

Michaela Walsh

Judith Wedderburn

Marie C. Wilson

Everjoice Win

Katherine Witteman

Alexandrina Wong

Rev. Bond Wright

March 14, 2013

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
in the Global Development Agenda

Note for the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on the post-2015 Development Agenda

Sexual and reproductive health is a precondition for achieving all three dimensions of sustainable development: environmental, economic and social. It is at the core of human development. Yet around the world, millions of people, both adults and adolescents, are unable to control their fertility and sexuality, and enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights, because they face legal, social or economic barriers to access to contraception, maternity care, safe abortion, STI and HIV prevention, or are subjected to various forms of violence, including early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.

The undersigned organizations call on you to recommend that sexual and reproductive health and rights be clearly articulated and prioritized in the global community’s agenda for sustainable development, health and poverty eradication. 
The Rio+20 outcome document, The Future We Want, called for:

• the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action and the outcomes of their review conferences including the commitments leading to sexual and reproductive health and the promotion and protection of all human rights in this context. (para. 145)

We support this call as well as the recognition of the need for the provision of universal access to reproductive health (para.145) and commitments to:

• improving the health of women, men, youth and children, to gender equality and to protecting the rights of women men and youth to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including access to sexual and reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence (para.146); and
• ensuring that health systems provide the necessary information and health services that address the sexual and reproductive health of women (para.146).

Yet it is essential that the post-2015 development agenda further strengthens these provisions and takes concrete steps to implement them. It must galvanise efforts to achieve universal and equitable access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and, especially, to increase women’s and young people’s sexual and reproductive autonomy and their human rights.

The strengthening of health systems is essential to providing the information and services needed to address the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all. Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services must include information on human sexuality, safe, effective, affordable and acceptable modern methods of contraception, STI and HIV prevention and treatment, safe and legal abortion, and maternity care. These services must be complemented by comprehensive sexuality education programs, both in and out of schools, teaching gender equality and human rights among other components.

We believe that action to address the social, economic and environmental determinants of health is essential to the creation of inclusive, equitable, economically productive and healthy societies. Action must focus on situations that lead to exclusion, marginalization or discrimination and address the entire population, including the poorest sectors. Legal and all other barriers interfering with access to sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including criminal laws, must be removed in order to realize human rights.

To this end, we call for the full realization of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, which cannot be ensured without ensuring sexual and reproductive health. We further emphasise the need to achieve gender equality, protect sexual rights, and secure the right of all, including women, men and adolescents, to have control over and decide freely on all matters related to their sexuality, reproduction and gender, free from coercion, discrimination and violence.

February 2013

Action Canada for Population and Development
African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
AIDS Accountability International
Articulación Feminista Marcosur
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Balance Promoción para el Desarrollo y Juventud A.C.
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW)
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)
International Planned Parenthood Federation
International Women’s Health Coalition
Ipas
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Population Action International
Population and Sustainability Network
Reproductive Health Matters
Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ)
Reproductive Health Advocacy Network Africa (RHANA)
Rutgers WPF
The YP Foundation (TYPF)
Women Deliver
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights
World YWCA
Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights

 Happy International Women's Day from the DAWN Team! We salute all women all over the world!

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era and Global Fund for
Women cordially invite you to attend International Women's Day Panel

Countering Conservative Economic & Religious Forces at the UN
Co-Convened with Global Fund for Women
March 8, 2013
18:30-19:45
1st Floor Church Center, 777 UN Plaza
Panelists: Ros Petchesky (USA) {CHAIR}; Eugenia Lopez (Mexico); Bhumika
Muchhala (Indonesia/USA); Noelene Nabulivou (Fiji); Gita Sen (India)

DAWN EVENTS @ UN CSW 57, NEW YORK

Interrupting the Continuum of Gender & Sexual Based Violence in the Pacific

Co-Convened with Fiji Women’s Rights Movement

March 5, 2013 ~ 16:30-18:00


Guild Hall, Armenian Convention Center, 630 2nd Avenue

Panelists: Virisila Buadromo (Fiji) {CHAIR}; Leentje Besoer (Papua New Guinea); Noelene Nabulivou (Fiji); Lucille Sain (Chuuk, FSM); Dorosday Kenneth Watson (Vanuatu)

Violence, Ecologies, Livelihoods - Feminists Confronting Unsustainable Development

Co-convened with Women’s Major Group

March 7, 2013 ~ 10:30-12:30

1st Floor Church Center, 777 UN Plaza

Panelists: Sascha Gabizon (Netherlands) {CHAIR}; Isis Alvarez (Colombia); Tsuge Azumi (Japan); Elina Doszhanova (Khazakstan); Norma Maldonado (Guatemala); Noelene Nabulivou (Fiji); Caroline Usikpedo (Nigeria)

Feminist Activism against Gender-Based Violence in China

Co-Convened with Chinese Women’s Groups

March 7, 2013 ~ 12:30-14:00


Guild Hall, Armenian Convention Center, 630 2nd Avenue

Panelists: Cai Yiping (China) {CHAIR}; Feng Yuan; Wang Guohong; Lu Pin; Li Huiying; Zhao Hongju;

Expert Panel: Key gender equality Issues to be Reflected in the Post-2015 Development Framework

Convened by UN Women

7 March 2013 ~ 15:00-18:00

Conference Room 2, UN North Lawn Building

Panelists: Irina Velichko (Belarus) {CHAIR}; Caren Grown (USAID); John Hendra (UNW); Amina Mohammed (HLP Post-2015); Anita Nayar (India/USA)

Countering Conservative Economic & Religious Forces at the UN

Co-Convened with Global Fund for Women

March 8, 2013 ~ 18:30-19:45


1st Floor Church Center, 777 UN Plaza

Panelists: Ros Petchesky (USA) {CHAIR}; 
Eugenia Lopez (Mexico); Bhumika Muchhala (Indonesia/USA); Noelene Nabulivou (Fiji); Gita Sen (India)