The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development - Sustainable Development and Gender Equality
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development - Sustainable Development and Gender Equality
A panel discussion held at UN Headquarters launches the publication The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development. The discussion featured Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, contributing author; Isha Ray, Professor of Energy and Resources at University of California, Berkeley, contributing author; Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Zenebework Tadesse, independent researcher, Ethiopia; and was moderated by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at UN Women.
The World Survey is a UN Secretary-General’s report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. This year’s report focuses on Sustainable Development and Gender Equality, with chapters on the green economy and care, food security, population, and investments for gender responsive sustainable development. The report comes at an important moment, in the emergence of the post-2015 development framework and as the global community grapples with the challenges of sustainable development and the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals. Against this context, the 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development asserts the central role of gender equality and charts the rationale and the actions necessary to achieve sustainable development. The Secretary-General’s report is available online, along with other documentation for the Second Committee at www.un.org/en/ga/second/69/documentslist.shtml. It has been translated into all six official UN languages.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown