|
Resolutions on International Cooperation
Commitment To The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The 29th IFUW Conference resolves: that national federations and associations (NFAs) urge their respective governments to establish and/or uphold their specific commitments to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) thus ensuring that all targets are reached by 2015, in particular by:
- delivering promised aid;
- ensuring that any country receiving aid is involved in decisions as to its planning and delivery;
- calling for global partnership in development; and
- ensuring implementation of partnerships based on collective responsibility and, in particular, the participation of women as beneficiaries and agents.
Plan of Action
- NFAs of economically advanced countries to take immediate action to ensure that promised aid is delivered and/or that targets are established.
- NFAs to support the establishment of global partnerships in development.
- NFAs to review the commitment made by their respective country to meet the MDGs.
- NFAs to take steps to promote the participation of women at the decision making level in the planning and delivery of aid.
NFA Follow-up to UN World Conferences
that NFAs should urge their governments to follow-up and implement the recommendations included in the programmes and platforms of action adopted at:
- World Conference on Human Rights 1993 International Conference on Population and Development 1994
- World Summit for Social Development 1995
- Fourth World Conference on Women 1995
- Habitat II 1996
with particular reference to the well-being of women and girls. (1995 No. 11)
1995 Fourth World Conference on Women
- to urge NFAs to take part in the preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women:
- to work nationally with NGOs and governments towards the implementation of the Forward-Looking Strategies, and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women;
- to urge and assist governments and other appropriate agencies to prepare comprehensive reports on the Status of Women including gender-disaggregated statistics;
- to work in conjunction with Intergovernmental organisations and Regional Economic Commissions. (1992 No. 17)
1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development
to urge NFAs to study the final document of the UN Conference on Environment and Development 1992 (UNCED/Earth Summit) and to work on the implementation of its recommendations in co-operation with other NGOs and national and local government, making sure that women are placed in full partnership to achieve sustainability. (1992 No. 8)
UN International Year of Shelter for the Homeless
that IFUW and NFAs should promote the involvement of women as agents and beneficiaries in the UN International Year of Shelter for the Homeless in accordance with the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, particularly the paragraphs dealing with Housing, settlement, Community Development, transport and Environment. (1986 No. 9)
World Health Organization Action Programme on Essential Drugs
that NFAs be urged to support the World Health Organisation Action Programme on Essential Drugs by giving it publicity in their own countries with a view to encouraging their governments to adopt National Drug Policies or to formulate such policies where they are absent and to introduce essential drugs lists. (1986 No. 1)
UN Voluntary Fund for Women
that IFUW support the Voluntary Fund for the UN Decade for Women (now the UN Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM):
- by reporting on the projects and activities of the Fund in IFUW publications,
- by urging its members to publicise the work of the Fund and, where appropriate, to encourage public and private contributions to the Fund;
- by urging its members to identify projects that merit Fund support and assist sponsors of these projects in their applications for funding from the Fund. (1983 No. 6)
UN Decade for Women
- to invite NFAs, in view of the 1985 World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the UN Decade for Women,
- to call on their governments to implement the World Programme of Action adopted at the 1980 World Conference of the UN Decade for Women,
- to monitor their governments' implementation of the World Programme of Action and their governments' review and appraisal of progress achieved and obstacles encountered in attaining the goals and objectives of the UN Decade for Women (1976-1985)
- to call on their governments to establish national Committees for the preparation of the World Conference to review and appraise the achievements of the UN Decade for Women and to include in such National Committees participants from non-governmental women's organisations,
- to support their governments in designing forward-looking strategies for the advancement of women for the period up to the year 2000, and concrete measures to overcome obstacles to the achievement of the goals and objectives of the UN Decade for Women: Equality, development and Peace and the sub-themes of employment, health and education at the national, regional and international levels. (1983 No. 12) (see also Resolution 1980 No. 10)
International Development Strategy
to recommend to NFAs to
- call on their governments to implement Articles 51,77, 95, 122 and 163 (concerning women) of the International Development Strategy for the third UN Development Decade;c
- all on their governments to make the situation of women visible in their review and appraisal of the IDS
- themselves monitor their governments' implementation of IDS and their governments' review and appraisal with regard to women's needs and interests. (1983 No. 11)
Project Five-O
that IFUW participate along with ACWW, ICW, IFBPW and SI in the exploratory stage of a possible joint project in non-formal education for girls and women in a developing country. (1980 No. 2) This is now Project Five-O, with Zonta International instead of the ACWW
International Development Strategy for the Third Development Decade
to recommend that NFAs should draw to the attention of their governments the importance of the following aspects of the proposed International Development Strategy for the Third Development Decade:
- the new strategy should recognise the difference of structure and economic development of various groups of countries, and should recognise the interdependence of countries;
- the basic needs concept and accelerated economic growth in the developing countries should be pursued. The former does not replace the need for the latter. They should be considered as complementary.
- women's organisations that have rosters of qualified women should be instrumental in the new strategy. Co-operation with women's organisations that reach the grass roots level is indispensable.
- it is particularly important to associate women in the rural development process and strengthen their role in food production through technical assistance and adapted technologies. (1980 No. 6)
UN Regional Commissions
to invite NFAs to be aware of regional development in the UN, its Specialised Agencies and other intergovernmental groupings, and to urge their governments to prevail upon the Regional Commissions
- to frame their terms of reference in order to emphasise social as well as economic issues;
- to set up NGO regional liaison offices with a view to enabling NGOs of the region to play a significant role. (1974 No. 4)
International Women's Year
to urge NFAs to participate in the observance of International Women's Year 1975 and to plan programmes leading to action for appropriate goals. It recommends that they take the initiative in arranging meetings with other non-governmental organisations, with a view to acting together on questions such as extension of possibilities for part time work, women's education, re-education and retraining, in order to focus on women's potential contribution to society. (1974 No. 5)
Media Support for the International Development Strategy of the 2nd UN Development Decade
IFUW should exert pressure on the mass media in order that International Development Strategy for the second UN Development Decade may receive the necessary publicity and should participate in this programme as often as possible. (1974 Seminar 1)
NFA links with UNESCO and its National Commissions
to ask NFAs to participate in the various ceremonies commemorating the XXth anniversary of UNESCO in 1966 and to seize this opportunity to strengthen their ties with their respective National Commissions. (1966 No. 6)
Women/Education/UNESCO
to reaffirm the intention of IFUW to support, by all the means within its power, the educational, scientific and cultural activities of UNESCO, in particular the new programme, both short and long term, proposed by the Director-General which has the following aims:
- to promote the access of women to education at all levels,
- to encourage women to obtain higher qualifications, thus enabling them to hold the highest positions in the various fields of education, the national economy and of public life,
- to create a climate of opinion favourable to equal opportunity for all and to prepare appropriate legal instruments. (1965 No. 12)
Support for UNESCO
IFUW should collaborate in the programme of UNESCO whenever the Officers consider that IFUW is in a position to do so. (1958 No. 16e)
UNESCO UNITWIN Programme
encourage all NFAs to study the UNESCO UNITWIN Programme and the UNESCO Chairs Scheme and make use of its opportunities for better co-operation between universities in order to accelerate the transfer of knowledge and improve the status of women (1992 No. 2)
|
