Women’s Rights

Rio+20 Do We Want this Future?

Posted by wideplusnetworkon October 30, 2012July 5, 2017in Analysis, Gender and Development, Reports and Publications, Women's Rights

From 20 to 22 June this year in Rio, state leaders from the world had the chance to make real progress on the sustainability agenda. Instead Rio+20 proved disappointing. Eva Lachkovics, from WIDE Austria, a WIDE+ platform, reports from the…

Women’s Rights and the Post-2015 agenda: the time is NOW!

Posted by wideplusnetworkon October 30, 2012July 24, 2021in Analysis, Gender and Development, Women's Rights

In 2015 a new development framework that succeeds the Millennium Development Goals will be adopted. WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform calls for the women’s rights movement to revitalise the energy surrounding the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995) to…

Women’s Rights Now! CEDAW Shadow Report Austria

Posted by wideplusnetworkon October 30, 2012July 24, 2021in Gender justice in Europe, Reports and Publications, Women's Rights

Forming part of the Austrian NGO forum „Women´s Rights Now!”, WIDE Austria has contributed to a shadow report on the weaknesses in the implementation of women´s human rights in Austria. The report that was sent to the UN CEDAW Committee…