Statement by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (December 2008)

The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development welcomes the fact that the outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha goes far beyond the 2002 Monterrey Consensus with regard to gender equality. But this is not enough. We urge that gender equality policy commitments and actions on development, trade, finance, debt, aid and systemic issues will be strongly addressed in the follow-up process and the planned UN Conference at the highest level.

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We will persist in strengthening the linkages between gender equality, women’s rights, and women’s empowerment and the various issues, responses and reforms that may be agreed upon as the global community reviews the financial and monetary systems toward a comprehensive reform of global economic governance. In conclusion, we underscore the valuable significance of the outcome document’s commitment to a conference at the highest level that will be called by the UN General Assembly.

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