The Women's Major Group has issued a statement on the High Level Political Forum's Ministerial Declaration.
Show your solidarity to the local movements, realities from the ground and women's human rights by signing the Statement at this LINK:
SIGN-ON STATEMENT - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8oumICNa-Vm1vYk9Kg6vR_SxtiHDZW2kRyvT0MAVLkROEKw/viewform?usp=sf_link
Direct Link to Full 15-Page 2017 Publication:
Equality between women and men is one of the objectives of the European Union. Over time, legislation, case-law and changes to the Treaties have helped shore up this principle and its implementation in the EU. The European Parliament has always been a fervent defender of the principle of equality between men and women.
Legal basis
The principle that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work has been enshrined in the European Treaties since 1957 (today: Article 157 TFEU). Besides, Article 153 TFEU allows the EU to act in the wider area of equal opportunities and equal treatment in matters of employment and occupation. Within this framework, Article 157 TFEU furthermore authorises positive action to empower women. In addition, Article 19 TFEU enables legislation to combat all forms of discrimination, including on the basis of sex. Legislation against trafficking in human beings, in particular women and children, has been adopted on the basis of Articles 79 and 83 TFEU, and the Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme finances, among others, measures contributing to the eradication of violence against women, based on Article 168 TFEU.
2017 FAMILY PLANNING SUMMIT - http://summit2017.familyplanning2020.org/ - On July 11, policymakers, donors, and advocates from around the world are gathering at the Family Planning Summit in London, UK, to discuss efforts to reach our Family Planning 2020 goals and ensure that more women and girls around the world are able to plan their families and their futures.
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/adding-it-up-contraception-mnh-2017
Website Gives Additional Charts/Data.
March 7, 2017 - The peoples of the world, in particular in the global south, have been facing increasing levels of violence in different forms, which directly or indirectly have an important bearing on the realization of their human right to adequate food and nutrition (RTFN – Global Network for the Right to Food & Nutrition), and related rights.
The vast majority of violations of the RTFN are associated with acts of commission and omission of State authorities and with abuses and crimes carried out by transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises. These acts of violence take a variety of different forms: land grabbing, forced evictions, child marriage and gender-based violence, bonded labor, abusive utilization of agrochemicals by agribusiness with detrimental consequences to health and the environment, criminalization of social movement leaders and human rights defenders, ocean and fisheries grabbing, abusive marketing of junk food, and the promotion of climate change.
