UN Financing for Development Outcome
(Addis Ababa Action Agenda - AAAA)
Agreed to on July 16 in Addis Ababa
The Bad and the Good (mostly bad)
Critical Issues
Did not acknowledge common but differentiated responsibilities
It was not a transparent process
Northern / developed countries overwhelmed the G77 (the bloc of 134 developing countries, including China)
Sense of backsliding from...
FAWCO signed this Statement developed by the NGO Committee on Migration. FAWCO UN NGO Rep Jane Politi worked with the Committee drafting this Statement.
Providing Education and Care for Syria’s Littlest Refugees
“We are the children whose voices are not being heard: it is time we are taken into account”i
Given the protracted nature of the Syrian...
FAWCO has joined many other women's organizations in signing on to this statement calling for increased UN action to combat womne's rights abuses by the Islamic State.
Zonta International Statement on Women’s Rights and Non-State Terrorist Groups
Background
Violence against women has been used in conflicts throughout the known history of man. In modern times, it has often been met with denial...
World Refugee Day Update, June 20, 2016
FAWCO UN Reps Team and selected club activities in support of refugees
Please send an email to let us know what your members are doing to help refugees in your community.
FAWCO UN Rep Jane Politi is Vice Chair of the NGO Committee on Migration (NGO CoM) in NY. FAWCO is proud to...
UN Commission on the Status of Women CSW59 – Beijing+20
March 2015, New York
Gender justice is a human imperative. It is time for women to lead to change the paradigm, not adapt to the existing paradigm. We can not be satisfied with our progress as long as any women or men suffer inequality, injustice or violence.
CSW59 was...
Making the global local
Cities for CEDAW is a grassroots campaign launched at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2014 to gain support for the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) from US Mayors and secure 100 municipal CEDAW ordinances by January 2016.
The US is considered a leading nation in...