Statement of Women’s Organizations for Small Island Development States (SIDS)

For small island peoples, the existential threat to our islands and the current pressure from SIDS-specific social, economic and ecological justice concerns means that the upcoming SIDs 3rd global meeting is a once-in-many generations event, in that it is about the right to life, and the right to development as much as all other interlinked rights.

Read the Statement of Women’s Organisations for Small Island Development States (SIDS) delivered to the International Year of SIDS meeting at the United Nations in New York on February 25th, 2014.

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