4th African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development: Africa Women’s Major Group Position Paper

Gender inequality remains one of the most pervasive inequalities, evidenced by numbers of women and girls living in poverty and insecurity in many African countries. Laws and policies do not uphold the rights of women and girls and their abilities to make informed choices about their lives are curtailed. By not adopting and implementing gender responsive regional legal and policy frameworks that address systemic issues in the implementation of the SDGs, women and girls will not be able to thrive and achieve their ambitions.

Read the Africa Women’s Major Group Position Paper, delivered at the 4th African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, held in Dakar, Segal, from 2-4 May 2018.

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