The first Financing for Development review Forum fails to deliver meaningful outcomes for Women’s Human Rights

The inaugural ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up was  held from 18 to 20 April 2016, but it did not bring results. Despite ongoing negotiations between governments, the meeting did not produce any substantive outcomes. The outcome document provides four articles that…

UN Woman respond to WIDE+ concerns for the woman refugees in Europe and Turkey

Ms. I. Solrun Gisladottir, UN Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, and representative to Turkey responded to WIDE+ letter about the vulnerable situation of women refugees in Europe and in Turkey. She replied that UN Women shares many…