Governance

Turning Promises into Progress – joint GADN GAPS and UKSRHR network report

2015 represents an important moment for gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights. It is twenty years since the landmark Beijing Conference on Women and fifteen years since the ground-breaking United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace…

Women’s Major Group Recommendations for the Aid Effectiveness Agenda, February 2015

The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) of which WIDE+ is a member, has reviewed the paper for the new Aid Effectiveness Agenda that will be decided upon in Addis Ababa, in July of this year. The…

A feminist perspective on the 4th De-Growth Conference

In this article Christa Wichterich reflects on the discourses and strategies discussed during the 4th De-Growth Conference. De conference brought 3000 people together in Leipzig, in September 2014, through 450 workshops, cultural events and plenaries. In terms of discourse the current “de-growth” discourse can be…