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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner@lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner@lists.wunrn.com]
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<b>Subject:</b> [WUNRN] Tribute to Honor Women Human Rights Defenders - Exhibit at High Level Political Forum on the SDG's<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.wecf.eu/english/articles/2017/07/whrdsresist.php">http://www.wecf.eu/english/articles/2017/07/whrdsresist.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#003399">Tribute To Honor Women Human Rights Defenders (#WHRDsResist) at #HLPF2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Exhibition launched at High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development Goals<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#003399"><img border="0" width="652" height="435" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D2FFB4.78ECD9B0" alt="Photo: © IISD"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#003399"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">July 12, 2017 - The Women’s Major Group, alongside core partners launched its exhibit highlighting the crucial role of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD’s)
in the sustainable development agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">For the SDG’s to be implemented, every actor’s voice will help achieve the ambitious and transformative agenda. There is recent progress on commitment to
WHRDs at a global level, including the first UN General Assembly resolution on WHRDs in 2013, and subsequent resolutions passed by the UN Human Rights Council and the GA in 2014 and 2015, that specifically reference the important work of WHRDs, and the need
for states to take appropriate steps to protect them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">This exhibit seeks to bring into light the interlinkage between existing WHRDs instruments and the 2030 Agenda, but also to point out the need of making explicit
that they are central to the agenda. Despite calls from civil society, the 2030 agenda fails to mention the important and legitimate role of WHRDs working on sustainable development-related issues. Even more so, we can’t achieve sustainable development if
one single person risks its life or dignity in pursue of the highest standards of human right and the health of our planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">WHY</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Since the start of the 2030 Agenda, hundreds of women human rights defenders (WHRDs), have faced repression, persecution, threats, intimidation, violence,
and even murder and assassination. Just last week, the daughter of Berta Cáceres’ (a Honduran feminist activist, environmental human rights defender and leader of the indigenous Lenca community who was murdered by the militia in her country last year) s<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jul/04/daughter-of-murdered-honduran-activist-survives-armed-attack"><span style="color:#003399;text-decoration:none">urvived
an assassination attempt</span></a>. To honor the women human rights defenders who continue to risk their lives as they work fearlessly to advance women’s rights in their communities and countries, draw attention to their plight, the Women’s Major Group (WMG)
hosted an exhibition and peaceful tribute during the High Level Political Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><img border="0" width="570" height="281" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D2FFB4.78ECD9B0" alt="http://www.wecf.eu/images/2017/WMG/launchiisd.jpg"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Photo: </span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">© IISD</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Here are some of the women who were commemorated:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Tuðçe Albayrak, Germany, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Dorothy Stang, USA/Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Helen Joanne Cox, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Loretta Saunders, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Hande Kader, Turkey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Leila Alaoui, France/Morocco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Intisar Hasairi, Libya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Nilce de Souza Magalhães, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Brenda Marleni Estrada Tambito, Guatamela<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Anabel Flores Salazar, Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Angélica Miriam Quintanilla Hernández, El Salvador<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Berta Cáceres, Honduras<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Sagal Salad Osman, Somalia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Fezekile Ntsukela "Khwezi" Kuzwayo, South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Joan Kagezi, Uganda<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Teresita Navacilla, Philippines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Safia Ahmed-Jan, Afghanistan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Sabeen Mahmud, Pakistan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Samira Saleh Al-Naimi, Iraq<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Helen Rumbali, Papua New Guinea <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lanka<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Despite growing attention to the violence and violations of rights that WHRDs face globally and increased awareness of the need to protect them--reports show
violence against WHRDs has continued to increase in all parts of the world. Militarization, conflicts over resources, and all forms of religious fundamentalisms and cultural extremisms are all factors in the growing repression of women who stand up for their
rights and for the rights of their communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">WHRDs continue to take a stand for freedom of expression, land rights and rights of indigenous and rural communities, rights of political participation, reproductive
rights (including the right to abortion), sexual health and reproductive health rights, and rights of communities facing discrimination because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. All which are key issues that must be addressed in the aim to eradicate
poverty (the theme of this year’s HLPF), and absolutely vital in the cause to defeminize poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Their work in these areas has meant they face repression, arrest and detention, and physical violence, including assassination. Despite recent progress on
commitment to WHRDs at a global level, including the UN General Assembly passing its<a href="http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A%2FRES%2F68%2F181"><span style="color:#003399;text-decoration:none"> first resolution on WHRDs</span></a> in December
2013, and subsequent resolutions passed by the UN Human Rights Council and the GA in
<a href="http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A%2FHRC%2F25%2FL.24"><span style="color:#003399;text-decoration:none">2014</span></a> and
<a href="http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A%2FRES%2F70%2F161"><span style="color:#003399;text-decoration:none">2015</span></a>, in 2016 and 2017 alone, hundreds of WHRDs (see WHRDIC’s Statement below) globally have faced increased crackdowns
by state and non-state actors in their work; proliferation of laws that limit freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly; restrictions and attacks on organizations and civil society groups, and shrinking of feminist spaces; violence, threats,
intimidation and murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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