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POST-2015
WOMEN’S COALITION COMPREHENSIVE RESPONSE TO THE ZERO DRAFT OF THE
OUTCOME
DOCUMENT FOR THE UN SUMMIT TO ADOPT THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
On 2 June
2015, the zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the
Post-2015 Development Agenda was released by the co-facilitators of the
Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations sessions. This document includes the
Declaration, Goals and Targets, Means of Implementation and the Global
Partnership, Follow up and Review as well as annexes on the proposed target
revisions, proposed technology facilitation mechanism and the introduction
included in the OWG Outcome Document.
The Post-2015
Women’s Coalition believes that the Post 2015 Development Agenda and its
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present an opportunity to change business
as usual and work towards a comprehensive gender equality strategy; address
inequalities; promote peace and security; and be inclusive and accountable to
all. In this regard, we welcome the inclusion of all the goals and targets as
proposed by the OWG, including the stand-alone goal on gender equality;
inclusion of women´s full and effective participation and equal opportunities
for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and
public life; calls for gender disaggregated data; recognition of the importance
of civil society engagement; the call to end all forms of discrimination and
violence against all women and girls everywhere, as well as the inclusion of
gender equality as a separate element in the Preamble of the Zero Draft.
However, the current Zero Draft does not attempt to address the structural imbalances, problems of power and patriarchy and neoliberal globalization, which are at the root of many inequalities, and shies away from tackling issues around marginalization, including gender and sexuality which were hard-won at Beijing, Cairo, Vienna, and Rio. Furthermore, although States are obligated under international human rights law, including the Maastricht Guidelines, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to progressively realize women's and girls’ human rights using maximum available resources, these obligations are not adequately reflected in the Zero Draft. The Zero Draft's voluntary follow up mechanisms are also disconnected from existing human rights monitoring mechanisms while its restricted targets and indicators fail to capture the ambition needed for transformative change.
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