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UN highlights progress at Commission on the Status of Women and flags SDG finance gap ahead of development conference
Summary
UN said member states adopted by consensus a political declaration on women’s rights at the Commission on the Status of Women; the UN also noted the first draft outcome for an upcoming international development conference warns of a $4 trillion SDG finance gap and calls for international financial architecture reform.
The United Nations said Tuesday that member states at the Commission on the Status of Women adopted, by consensus, a political declaration committing to respect, protect and promote the rights, equality and empowerment of all women and girls.
The UN spokesperson described the secretary-general’s remarks at a town-hall with civil society for the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, noting the UN’s call for countries to invest in equality for women and girls, to support women’s rights organizations and to take action to tackle misogyny online and close the digital gender divide.
Separately, the spokesperson flagged that the co-facilitators for the first draft of the outcome document for the fourth international conference on development — representatives of Mexico, Nepal, Norway and Zambia — published a draft recognizing a “sustainable development crisis” and identifying financing challenges at the center of that crisis. The draft cited a growing SDG financing gap of $4,000,000,000,000 and called for an “impact-focused sustainable development investment push” and ambitious reform of the international financial architecture.
The spokesperson said negotiations among member states on that outcome document will begin on March 24 ahead of the conference scheduled in Seville, Spain, from June 30 to July 3.
