CSW62 side event: Leaving no one behind for Planet 50/50 by 2030: Every rural woman and girl everywhere
Date: Thursday, 15 March 2018, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. EDT
Location: 630 Second Avenue Ballroom, 630 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10016
UN Women’s Civil Society Division, in collaboration with key partners, will convene a dialogue with civil society, rural women leaders and activists and rural leaders along with other stakeholders, to discuss, “Leaving no one behind for Planet 50/50 by 2030: Every rural woman and girl everywhere”.
The side event will be an interactive discussion with civil society and key partners to discuss policy standards necessary in Leaving No One Behind, and what this means for rural women and girls, with all the intersectional complexities of widowhood, marital status disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, sex characteristics, indigenous and ethnic identities, age, refugee or migrant status.
It is hoped that the recommendations of policy standards will advocate for accountability mechanism and implementation standards for governments and will inform policy to ensure that the most marginalized women and girls are brought to the forefront of the SDGs gender justice agenda.
Remarkable speakers will lead the conversations and UN Women’s Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, will also provide insightful comments on this crucial topic, that seeks to address the inclusion of the most marginalized communities in the SDGs implementation.
