Sustainable Development Goals: Where do Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Stand?
by The Daily Eye Team March 3 2014, 10:42 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 32 secsAny views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Friday File: The eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG8) that took place 3-7 February 2014 in New York is the most recent in the series of consultations with governments and civil society on how to shape a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)[1] to merge with the new post-2015 development framework. AWID looks at the extent to which this intergovernmental process has included gender equality and women’s rights in their deliberations, and what areas remain a challenge as negotiations begin.