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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> pacific-srhr-feminists@googlegroups.com [mailto:pacific-srhr-feminists@googlegroups.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>NoeleneN<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 24, 2017 7:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> pacific-srhr-feminists <pacific-srhr-feminists@googlegroups.com>; Network, Pacific Womens' Information, <pacwin@lyris.spc.int>; PPGCCSD1@googlegroups.com; Pacific Youth Council <pacificyouthcouncil@gmail.com>; Gender & Youth <gender@pacificdisability.org>;
pacific-cso-csw59@googlegroups.com; dromo <dromo@googlegroups.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> {Pacific SRHR Feminists} PR: New York, NY 23 March 2017 We Rise COALITION: Pacific feminists negotiating in shrinking spaces By Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, femLINKpacific<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">New York, NY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We Rise COALITION: Pacific feminists negotiating in shrinking spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">By Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, femLINKpacific<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“Pacific feminists and women led groups are pressing for a CSW61 Agreed Outcome document that shows Governments showing courage to change the inequalities within and between states, examining and addressing
sustainable consumption and production patterns, and envisioning a changing world of work for women that is not toward concentration of wealth and corporate power that prevents governments from investing in public services and social protection necessary for
women’s economic rights, but rather toward a just and equitable future for all, including women and girls" says Noelene Nabulivou, the Political Adviser of DIVA for Equality in the final days of the 61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW61) here in New York (NY).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">But the shrinking spaces for women’s human rights are glaringly obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This year’s CSW has seen attacks on NGO access to the negotiations process as the negotiations come to a close this Friday NY time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">According to the NGO CSW Committee as well as We Rise Coalition partners outside the negotiations on Wednesday 22 March, UN Security staff removed NGOs from the building after 6pm while negotiations
continued late into the night. CSW Agreed Conclusion negotiations were moved to the ECOSOC Chamber and Trusteeship Council Chamber twice this week. These meeting rooms are on the second floor which are off-limits to NGOs. This has severely restricted NGO/Government
informal discussions, hampering their ability to support the progress of the negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This is putting at risk the gains we have made for women’s rights as Nabulivou explains:
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“We see more governments making links between women's work and climate change, and we now want to see language on implementation; and on what components are needed for just and equitable transitions to low carbon economies. We also are concerned for language
to help address structural issues such as the grossly imbalanced global economic and financial system; and a growing automation of work impacting on women already at the bottom of deeply unequal global supply chains.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Caroline Lambert of International Women's Development Agency today raised issues of universal human rights, and inclusion of all women as central to leaving no-one behind:<br>
“For too long, the CSW has failed to recognise the human rights associated with sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s time for the CSW to uphold these critical human rights."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">She added, "The indivisibility of human rights, particularly the vital intersection of labour rights with women’s economic empowerment, must be a strong part of the Agreed Conclusions. This text must
place the ILO as a central pillar of the outcomes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In this global political climate, feminist networks and women human rights defenders, says Nabulivou, hope for a text that better responds to multiple forms of misogyny and patriarchal behaviour, authoritarianism,
conservatism and violence that are being used to try to restrict women’s bodily autonomy, movement, sexuality and decision-making over their lives:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"It is important that the CSW61 Agreed Outcomes reflect a strong universal human rights framework."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Feminists across the world now look to the UN Secretary General, UN Women and all Member States to ensure that the remainder of the negotiations are open to civil society engagement, and that the agreed
conclusions respond to the most pressing issues facing women’s human rights – it is after all part of the critical legacy of collaboration between Member States and Civil Society at the Commission on the Status of Women which have delivered many advances for
women’s human rights, from the development of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women and its Optional Protocol; to the creation of the first International Year of Women as well as the adoption of the first Security Council
Resolution on Women, Peace and Security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ends/SBR/NY230317<br>
About the Coalition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The We Rise Coalition is a dynamic, learning Coalition led by four feminist organisations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">· Diverse Voices and Action for Equality (DiVA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">· femLINKpacific (femLINK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">· Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">· International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At the centre of the We Rise Coalition is a commitment to building and sustaining the collective power of women in all their diversities. This includes building a movement to demand that women are
able to realise their full human rights, equality and justice, and creating a political force for change that cannot be ignored by families, communities, governments, or society at large.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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For more information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sharon Bhagwan Rolls – femLINKpacific, Executive Producer-Director (femLINK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mobile # in NY: +1 9172158179
<a href="mailto:sharon@femlinkpacific.org.fj">sharon@femlinkpacific.org.fj</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Noelene Nabulivou – Political Adviser (DIVA)
<a href="mailto:noelenen@gmail.com">noelenen@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Caroline Lambert – Director of Research, Policy and Advocacy (IWDA)
<a href="mailto:clambert@iwda.org.au">clambert@iwda.org.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nalini Singh –Executive Director, (FWRM)
<a href="mailto:nalini@fwrm.org.au">nalini@fwrm.org.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Noelene Nabulivou, Fiji <br>
Political Advisor, <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://www.divafiji.com/&c=E,1,yE_tFTgbUjV2xN3yxkINdhaT8qQ1T20UmEqn0RhgvJ4LiYkHL4yAGZxFY2LEPWMoUPgzzoWX9wUswy55iEmadPUUxfvuJAh_hA_ns4g3&typo=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Diverse
Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality, Fiji</span></a> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Associate, <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://www.dawnnet.org/&c=E,1,5fU18-326IZSjpOW00ndcX1WQkYnDjAVJZxkLH5_q_FPDtTdqoieJR3euxoyaZb3FBqC81dhl3jdreDQQu3y6jBA19w_OMsuf0lYW7ESDkniLkY,&typo=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Development
Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Global </span></a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*<a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://www.fwrm.org.fj/index.php/news/media-releases/2013/292-re-framing-re-articulating-and-re-energizing-srhr-in-the-pacific&c=E,1,BSajcYmq_7y441OE72uZho2055ABu0F5ZSAWaarOleY5gQ20puHMuhwu_Tgx8vkBiX9HHpAvz4Jthl2LPFftBD3wZzdv6b_n9WYFnWhT14SS3BE,&typo=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Pacific
Feminist SRHR Coalition</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> - Co-convenor, Member<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PPGCCSD" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Pacific Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Response and Sustainable Development</span></a> (PPGCCSD)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Global CSO Advisory Committee (CSAC), UNDP<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*<a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://www.womenrio20.org/&c=E,1,Zma35Y04ZbbW3CyzSQXL5ypMq6awD8OieixfgHZC747katg5BvyNNeqE1D1usHdaDr1tw_ZqEjj5_79S9V07MuGQjNErZW-DLvC0OQt7Zq8Qx-mdkxsi&typo=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Women's
Major Group on Sustainable Development</span></a> -<o:p></o:p></p>
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Working Group, Financing for Development</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:noelenen@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">noelenen@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Skype: 'noelene.nabulivou2''<br>
<b><i>“no permanent enemies, no permanent allies, only permanent interests.” - s.alinsky</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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