GENDER POLITICS New breed of young women takes on the United Nations
For the second year running, before the meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61. See the report in News Weekly, May 6, 2017), a Youth Forum was held. This year about 750 young people (mostly young women) gathered on March 11–12 at the United Nations in New York to produce the Youth Declaration. The Youth Declaration is subtitled “Gender-just implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: Young women’s right to economic empowerment and participation in leadership and decision-making”. The declaration is presented to the CSW Conference, prior to its completion, with the aim of influencing the Agreed…