This Invitation Letter from the President of the Economic and Social Council welcomes all Member States to actively participate in the upcoming High Level Political Forum (HLPF) which will be held from 10-19 July 2017.
This discussion paper is a compilation of the executive summaries of the position papers on the theme of the high-level political forum, “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world”, submitted by the various major groups and other relevant stakeholders.
This initiative presents the problems that Ukranian women face from interventions of IFIs and WILPF's recommendations. These problems include impact of the elimination of subsidies for fuel and heating, cuts in the public sector, and cuts in child benefits.
This initiative are two reports that WILPF contributed with the Human Rights Council that recommend stronger regulations arms transfer to prevent human rights violations. WILPF and other civil society organisations helped highlight how arms transfer plays in gender-based violence and identified key risk assessment questions for officials to ask when making a gender sensitive risk assessment of any potential arms transfer.
The document below includes the Ministerial Declaration of the ECOSOC High-Level Segment and the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on "Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world", "Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions through promoting sustainable development, expanding opportunities and addressing related challenges".
In 2015, the world’s governments adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a universal agenda committing Member States to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
For June, in which Bolivia has the presidency of the UN Security Council, the MAP provides recommendations on the situations in Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Darfur, Mali, Somalia, and Syria.
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