Konference: Internationale kvinders øjne på resultaterne fra Rio+20, MDG’er og bæredygtig udvikling

TIME: Monday, 22 October, 10 -15

VENUE: Auditorium, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Strandgade 56, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K.

TIME: Monday, 22 October, 10 -15

VENUE: Auditorium, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Strandgade 56, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K.

With this conference KULU-Women and Development (KULU), the United Nations Association of Denmark and Danish Institute for Human Rights want to critically review both the results from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, held in June, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) now and after 2015 through international gender lenses.

What were the results from the Rio+20 conference, what is happening to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how do they link with the MDGs, which were to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015, and what happens to both the MDGs and SDGs after 2015?

On a global level considerable progress has been achieved on a number of the MDGs since their launch in 2000, but the results and benefits are unequally divided on regional and national levels. The results for women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality on the 8 goal areas are lagging far behind.

There are also considerable gaps in living up to the obligations agreed upon in the Beijing Platform for Action at the UN’s World Conferences for Women and the subsequent reviews, as well as in the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

Civil society has been critical of the results from Rio+20. Women’s rights organizations and networks have been especially critical. And there are concerns about the formulation and decisionmaking process for what happens with the MDGs and Rio’s SDGs after the MDG deadline of 2015.

The conference will look at the possibilities and challenges in these two UN processes and wants to propose a way forward for women’s and girls’ rights, gender equality and sustainable development now and after 2015.

On the program are:
– Lydia Alpízar Durán, director, Association for Women’s Rights in Development
– Mama Koite Doumbia, president, FEMNET-Mali (KULU partner)
– Lone Loklindt, mp, Social Liberal Party (RV), head of Danish parliamentarian delegation to Rio+20
– Tania Dethlefsen, international chef, Sex & Society (Danish IPPF)
– Torleif Jonasson, secretary general, UN Association of Denmark
– Marie Louise Muff, senior advisor, DIHR
– Janice Goodson Foerde, chairwoman, KULU

Parliamentarian panel: Lone Loklindt, RV, Christian Juhl, Red-Green Party/EL, Lisbeth Bech Poulsen, SF, o.a.

Program is in English.

Participation is free, but registration is necessary. Send an e-mail to [email protected].

The conference is arranged in cooperation with the United Nations Association of Denmark, the Institute for Human Rights, the Social Liberal Party and other KULU member organizations. It is also a contribution to the Danish joint-MDG-campaign ”World’s Best News 2012”.

Sponsors: Hulda Pedersens Fund, 92-Group/Forum for Sustainable Development, CISU/Civil Society in Development, Dansk Folkeoplysnings Samråd/Danish Adult Education Association, Radical Venstre/Social Liberal Party, Red Fund, KULU-Women and Development.