WMG’s Side Event: The Centrality of Human Rights to SDG 5 & Agenda 2030
This HLPF 2022 side event, organized by the Women’s Major Group, UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, and the LGBTI Stakeholder Group, will look into the importance of centrality of human rights to the implementation and achievement of SDG 5 & Agenda 2030.
There are many topics that could be examined under the human rights & gender equality intersections, however, we would like to focus on four specific and pertinent dimensions, that are relevant for our current contexts throughout the world:
Policy coherence across UN spaces & beyond
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), with specific focus on abortion
Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD)
Anti-gender & anti-rights threats
WMG has been working on emphasizing the vitality of a holistic approach to SDGs that is centered in human rights, and takes on a systemic perspective to analyzing and offering solutions for the structural obstacles and systemic challenges in front of sustainable development.
Speakers:
- Melissa Upreti – Chair of UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
- Victor Madrigal – Borloz, UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Sivananthi Thanenthiran, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women
- Felicite Djoukouo, Association des Acteurs de Développement (ADEV)
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdl0S6SI4rtbi5HBua4b1E8afz-a8Qyrf9mhdSnmC_9K3sgog/viewform?mc_cid=13e5b4d572&mc_eid=e1bba69d46
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