Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD)*
Time to Act: Women Cannot Wait
A call for rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis
June 2009

We, the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) are deeply concerned that the draft outcome document of the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development continues to support the failed policies and flawed governance system that have created the current crises. We underscore that the financial and economic crisis exacerbates the disastrous impacts of the global food, energy, and climate crises, which have increased the number of hungry and undernourished people worldwide to over one billion, the majority of which are women and children. We recognize the pivotal role of the United Nations in addressing the impacts of these multiple crises and the crucial need to strengthen the UN's ability to fulfil its development mandate. We urge governments not to make this conference a missed opportunity to build a global consensus around a multilateral economic governance system that is fair, inclusive, gender equitable, rights-based and pro-development.

To read the rest of the statement, kindly visit the link here: http://documents.twnafrica.org/WWG-statement-june09-final2nd.pdf 

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