Universal Children’s Day is celebrated every year on November 20 to mark the day when the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child was adopted in 1989. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a multilateral human rights treaty that promotes the rights of all children worldwide. All of the UN Member States as well as...

Transitioning from MDGs to SDGs at the UN

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

In July 2015, in the final year of the 15-year MDG period, the UN issued a report on the successes and shortcomings in achieving the MDGs. Despite many successes, there is much work still to be done. Significant gains have been made toward many of the...

UN Financing for Development Outcomes of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA)

Agreed July 16, Addis Ababa

Critical Issues

Did not acknowledge common but differentiated responsibilities

It was not a transparent process

Northern/developed countries overwhelmed the G77 (the bloc of 134 developing countries, including China)

Sense of backsliding from Monterrey and Doha, rather than transformative progress

Addresses gender equality in terms...

UN Financing for Development Outcome

(Addis Ababa Action Agenda - AAAA)

Agreed to on July 16 in Addis Ababa

The Bad and the Good (mostly bad)

 Critical Issues

Did not acknowledge common but differentiated responsibilities

It was not a transparent process

Northern / developed countries overwhelmed the G77 (the bloc of 134 developing countries, including China)

Sense of backsliding from...

FAWCO signed this Statement developed by the NGO Committee on Migration. FAWCO UN NGO Rep Jane Politi worked with the Committee drafting this Statement.  

Providing Education and Care for Syria’s Littlest Refugees

“We are the children whose voices are not being heard: it is time we are taken into account”ⁱ

 Given the protracted nature of the Syrian...

FAWCO has joined many other women's organizations in signing on to this statement calling for increased UN action to combat womne's rights abuses by the Islamic State.

Zonta International Statement on Women’s Rights and Non-State Terrorist Groups

Background

Violence against women has been used in conflicts throughout the known history of man. In modern times, it has often been met with denial...