{"id":4883,"date":"2015-03-13T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kvenrettindafelag.is\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2015-03-13T21:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:26:16","slug":"womens-statement-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-world-conference-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kvenrettindafelag.is\/en\/womens-statement-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-fourth-world-conference-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CSW59<\/a><\/p>\n

Around 1000 women’s organizations around the world have signed a statement to protest the bland declarations<\/a> on women’s rights adopted at the opening session<\/a> of the 59th meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.<\/p>\n

This “Political declaration on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women” was written behind closed doors in the months preceding the meeting, and women’s organizations were given no opportunity to participate in its writing. In past years, political declarations have been adopted at the end of the CSW meeting, after intense negotiations where NGO’s and women’s organizations have participated fully.<\/p>\n

The Icelandic Women’s Rights Association agrees with her sister organizations around the world, and has signed the following statement.<\/p>\n

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Statement on the Political Declaration on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Twenty years after the adoption of Beijing, this version of the Political Declaration is not what women need.<\/p>\n

There has been tremendous progress toward gender equality and the realization of the human rights of women and girls. However, many of the gains that women and girls have made are under threat and women and girls worldwide face extraordinary and unprecedented challenges, including economic inequality, climate change and ocean acidification, and rising, violent fundamentalisms. At a time when urgent action is needed to fully realize gender equality, the human rights and empowerment of women and girls, we need renewed commitment, a heightened level of ambition, real resources, and accountability. This Political Declaration, instead, represents a bland reaffirmation of existing commitments that fails to match the level of ambition in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and in fact threatens a major step backward.<\/p>\n

As women\u2019s organizations, feminist organizations, and organizations that work to achieve the full realization of the human rights of women and girls, we demand a Political Declaration that:<\/p>\n