Civil Society Comments for the PGA's Stock-taking on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (Responses)


1	Timestamp	Organization Name	Name of Contributor	Nationality	Country of Residence	Gender	Age	Comments

2	8/1/2014 2:39:22	Federation of African Moslem Women in America	Ramatu Ahmed	Ghanaian	America	Female	45	Immigrants across the globe should be included in the global discussion on Universal Human Rights. They should be opportune to have access to social amenities. Such as education, work, health and other basic needs. Sooner or later, immigrant children will live the world. The earlier the better.
3	8/1/2014 5:29:14	Women Deliver	Katja Iversen	Danish	USA	Female	44	Thanks a lot for opening up for comments from civil society. If this is to be a development framework for the whole world and not just the elite the joint ownership is needed - and this is one way of going about creating that. We have mainly two comments - or call them wants or wishes - for the post 2015 development framework. 1. That they address the health, rights and well being of girls and women, particularly their sexual and reproductive health and rights. And 2. that the new framework properly address the needs, opportunities and potential of young people - both in the process and in the final product. You can't speak about the planet and sustainability, without speaking about people. And you can't speak about people, without speaking about rights and reproduction - and production. We know that when you invest in girls and women, there is a ripple effect and everybody wins. Hence what we want to see recognized in the new framework is: • By 2030, end preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. • By 2030, achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, including universal access to sexual and reproductive health information, education, services and commodities, particularly for adolescents and youth. • Achieve universal access to comprehensive sexuality education for all young people, in and out of school. - Secure girls’ and women’s access to nutrition and comprehensive health services, including preventive care and treatment. - Close the gender gap and provide quality education at all levels of schooling—for example, through promoting gender equality in secondary and tertiary education, lowering school fees, working to end child marriage and FGM, and ensuring schools have sanitary and safe facilities. - Implement policies and programs that promote gender equality, support greater female leadership, and prevent gender-based violence. The health, rights and opportunities for young people in general, and on adolescent girls in particular needs to be addressed - and not just targets that address unemployment. In order for young people to be productive members of society, they need healthcare, including reproductive services, education, economic opportunities and the ability to exercise their basic human rights. Without these targets - and without data to drive action and accountability - we cannot achieve an equitable and sustainable world, where both planet and people thrive.
4	8/5/2014 4:17:56	Association for Promotion Sustainable Development	Mr. Mange Ram Adhana	Indian	India	male	45	1. Post 2015 Development Agenda is right based and people central for sustainable development financing. 2. Build on Inter-governmental accountability framework in Post 2015 agenda with government adopted guideline and government monitoring house a monitoring and oversight hub for partnership with in strong effective high level political forum, tasked with monitoring the implementation of the post 2015 agenda 3. Water sanitation and sustainable energy in post 2015 development agenda a.) Ensure the Human right to water and sanitation by providing Universal access to safe , sufficient, affordable, acceptable and accessible drinking portable water adequate sanitation and hygiene for all, while progressively eliminating inequality. b.) We believe that combination of goals and indicator under SDGS was a powerful instrument for mobilizing resource and motivating action for this reason we recommend that the Post 2015 agenda should also feature limited no of high priority goals and targets with a clear time horizon and supported by measurable indicators with thin in Mind. c.) Recommendation on how to build and sustain board political consensus on an ambitious yet achievable post 2015 development agenda. Around the three dimension of economic growth social equality and environmental sustainability taking into account the particular challenge of the countries in conflict and post conflicts situations. 4. Government will decide what the SDGS are to contain and will be ultimately responsible for achieving these goals at the national level. But civil society and other stake holders need to make sure that there is the political will to make this happen by holding government and other key actors to account 5. There are many important ways that civil society and other stake holders can play an effective role in shaping and influencing the POST 2015 development agenda including . a.) Raising wider stake holder awareness about Post 2015 process and the SDGS b.) Engaging in action to put pressure on decision makers and monitoring what govt. are doing. c.) Providing a communication and engagement link between the public and decision makers
5	8/5/2014 9:43:39	Compassion in World Farming	Peter Stevenson	UK	UK	Male	69	Goal 2 of the OWG Outcome Document gives undue emphasis to increasing food production while not recognising that this often has an adverse impact on water, soil, biodiversity and ecosystems. Monocultures, fertilisers and pesticides are often used to increase production; these can undermine the natural resources on which agriculture depends. The Document does not recognise that we already produce enough food to feed the anticipated world population of 9.6 billion. However, over half that food is wasted in post-harvest losses or at consumer or retail levels or by being fed to animals or being used as bio-fuels. By just halving these forms of food waste we could feed an additional 3 billion people. Globally we do not need to produce large amounts of extra food to achieve food security; we just need to use the food we produce more sensibly. This said, in the world’s poorest regions increased production is indeed needed. However, this must be achieved in ways that do not impair soils, water, ecosystems. Goal 2 does not mention several factors that determine agriculture’s sustainability e.g. the need to reduce farming’s water footprint and nitrogen emissions. Some of these factors are referred to in other Goals e.g. Goal 6 refers to reducing water pollution and Goal 15 aims to combat desertification and reverse land degradation. The interlinkages between Goals need to be highlighted in order to avoid working in silos. Increasing food production will not of itself be sufficient to combat hunger if it is not combined with improved livelihoods for the poorest – particularly small-scale farmers. Smallholder livestock farmers must be helped to increase their productivity in ways which match well with their circumstances. This should not entail the introduction of industrial livestock systems as these exclude participation of those farmers living in deepest poverty. Such farmers tend to be out-competed by industrial production which provides little employment. Small-scale farmers should be helped to provide improved healthcare and nutrition for their animals by better disease management, the expansion of veterinary services and the cultivation of fodder crops. Better animal health and nutrition lead to increased productivity and longevity. This will improve smallholders’ purchasing power, making them better able to buy the food that they do not produce themselves and to have money available for other essentials such as education and medicine.
6	8/6/2014 11:11:51	DSW (German Foundation for World Population)	Renate	Baehr	Germany	Female	57	A people-centered, human rights approach must be at the heart of the new development agenda. Sustainable development cannot be achieved if we fail in at least securing minimum standards of all human rights for all people. International human rights standards must be the basis of and guide for how we shape the Post-2015 agenda, as they represent in themselves the ultimate aim of sustainable development. This means ensuring that gender equality, the empowerment and fulfillment of the human rights of women and girls, the rights and participation of adolescents and youth, and the respect, promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all cannot be sidelined any longer. These issues are common sense, but also smart investments and essential foundations of a universally-relevant, transformative, high-impact, and cost-effective sustainable development agenda. They were also clearly identified in various processes contributing to the Post-2015 discussions – including the Report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons. We welcome the work advanced by the Open Working Group for the Sustainable Development Goals as a good basis to start the debate. But a truly transformative, ambitious and aspirational Post-2015 agenda must go beyond agreements reached 20 years ago. As affirmed in the Joint Statement of Member States issued at the 13th Session of OWG, the following targets to be achieved by 2030 should be included in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Under the Health goal: ‘Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, including quality, comprehensive, integrated and affordable sexual and reproductive health information, education and services that include modern methods of contraception’ Under ´Gender Equality goal: ‘Ensure the respect, promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all’ Under the Education goal: ‘Achieve universal access to comprehensive sexuality education for all – especially young people and women –, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities'.
7	8/11/2014 8:35:32	CEEweb for Biodiversity	Veronika Kiss	Hungarian	Hungary	female	33	The post-2015 Sustainable Development agenda as a historical opportunity to establish a global framework of sustainable development, that can be tailored to national realities. As civil society we are advocating to take immediate and transformative action to keep the economy within planetary boundaries. Thus, it is essential to guarantee a fair sharing of ecological space and commons among nations, with special consideration given to poverty eradication through redistribution of wealth. At present there is ever increasing inequality between and within nations. The (over)consumption of a minority comes at the expenses of the majority and the degradation of our biophysical support systems. It is imperative that the basic needs of all are met and in order to do this, the SDGs need to be different from the MDGs: from a trade & aid-approach to a rights-based approach. The concept of sustainable development must mean the transition from fossil fuel- to renewable energy-economies; a change in consumption and production patterns (including agricultural production) going beyond efficiency into sufficiency directives; conservation and restoration of the natural support systems; eradication of extreme poverty; reduction in the inequality gap, both in developing and developed countries; and new indicators for measuring development based on an integral concept of well-being. Our constituents stress the importance of the universality character for the post-2015 agenda, where the framework, targets and directives are established at global level, but the implementation of the overall targets is translated into all national and local levels with citizen inputs, based on the common but differentiated responsibilities. To ensure access to sufficient energy and natural resources in the “Global South” for their endogenous development, fair resource- and energy- use caps should be put in place. These need to be worldwide and in line with the proposals of tough contraction and convergence scenarios proposed by the UN International Resource Panel. Anchoring SDGs in a human rights framework stems from a vision where the primacy of rights, inherent in the rule of law, is a central value. The principle of non-regression is key to preventing backsliding on acquired environmental and social rights. Please find more: http://www.ceeweb.org/work-areas/priority-areas/biodiversity-policies-and-conventions/global-level/
8	8/12/2014 12:15:52	Ramfa(Rehomfa)	Usyed Omera Farooq	Indian	India	Male	35	A right to such education is crucial for the young. Un-employment, underemployment, employment instability (or churning) and child-led families are global phenomena noted by the UN, yet youth are still marginalized and skills development and employment opportunities for young people remain a top priority. 1. Growth in population and associated consumption are now the primary problem facing mankind. Fertility rates have declined to 2.1 children for 40%, but the global population will not peak until after 2050. Education’s role in facilitating voluntary family planning, building the capacity for choice, rendering families more resilient to change and improving health is integral. 2. Adaptation to climate change is now a planning priority across nations, and Climate Education a new adjectival education. Disaster management and survival, the right to education for the displaced, the marginalized and for immigrant communities, and collaboration for innovation are emerging as Post 2015 priorities. 3. By 2050, 70% of people will live in cities and towns, where urban inequalities undermine children’s rights to education. 4. Access to ‘e-learning’, modern media and social media continue to transform education and to increase global access to learning. 5. EFA was conceived in 2000, when the global triple crunch of climate change, peak oil and debt were in the future. The competencies needed to thrive have changed; but the importance of education in developing human capital and adding to GDP+ grows. 6. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) will incorporate natural capital alongside the human and the social; and education’s role in developing people’s capacities to build lives, now and for future generations, lived above the social protection floor but below the environmental ceiling will be essential. Education pays off in their own life satisfaction, in the survival, health and education of their children, and in household and national prosperity. Education has also been shown to raise the lifetime earnings in both developed and developing countries. For ageing populations education is also of great importance; in general, well educated people live longer healthier lives, and are more resilient to, and capable of, change. Financial and non-financial barriers must be overcome to achieve high quality primary and secondary education for all the world’s young, ensuring equal opportunities for girls and boys.
9	8/13/2014 4:18:09	Ramfa(Rehomfa)	Usyed Omera Farooq	indian	India	MAle	35	A right to such education is crucial for the young. Un-employment, underemployment, employment instability (or churning) and child-led families are global phenomena noted by the UN, yet youth are still marginalized and skills development and employment opportunities for young people remain a top priority. 1. Growth in population and associated consumption are now the primary problem facing mankind. Fertility rates have declined to 2.1 children for 40%, but the global population will not peak until after 2050. Education’s role in facilitating voluntary family planning, building the capacity for choice, rendering families more resilient to change and improving health is integral. 2. Adaptation to climate change is now a planning priority across nations, and Climate Education a new adjectival education. Disaster management and survival, the right to education for the displaced, the marginalized and for immigrant communities, and collaboration for innovation are emerging as Post 2015 priorities. 3. By 2050, 70% of people will live in cities and towns, where urban inequalities undermine children’s rights to education. 4. Access to ‘e-learning’, modern media and social media continue to transform education and to increase global access to learning. 5. EFA was conceived in 2000, when the global triple crunch of climate change, peak oil and debt were in the future. The competencies needed to thrive have changed; but the importance of education in developing human capital and adding to GDP+ grows. 6. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) will incorporate natural capital alongside the human and the social; and education’s role in developing people’s capacities to build lives, now and for future generations, lived above the social protection floor but below the environmental ceiling will be essential.
10	8/13/2014 8:48:34	Girls-Awake foundation	Kemigisha Jackline	Ugandan	Uganda	Female	30	I think HIV around the is the same. There is no need why developing countries should be given poor quality medication and developed countries get best care yet we are struggling over the same issue. Why can't we we be fair for the whole works to get same quality of care and services? Children being born with HIV and are now adults have challenges adhering to the huge heaps of pills everyday. Most of us are actually giving up on the medication because of the pill burden and side effects associated to them. Stock-taking on the post 2015 should think about us and look for the reasons as to why the number of adolescents and young people are increasing everyday. Take an example of Uganda where over 575 young people between 15-24years get infected every week. If we remain with this kind of incident of which some are being cause by stock taking yet can be helped to realize the full functioning of the benefits of these medications in reducing new incidences. I therefore request that besides heavy edicines we are already taking, we urgently need vaccines to prevent new incidences and more funds should be redirected into getting the cure. The world is suffering. At least, let's be human for once.
11	8/13/2014 13:25:44	Support for Integrated Health Care Initiative-SIHCI	Amanda Joan Banura	Ugandan	Uganda	Female	21	The effects of omitting SRHR and family planning in 2000 from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were catastrophic. Uganda has this financial 2014/2015, allocated shs.1.197 billion to the health sector without clearly stipulating how much of that fund, was allocated to cover RH/FP commodities. This funding gap contributed to high rates of unmet need for family planning, and contributed to unnecessary maternal mortality. In 2007 we saw universal access to RH introduced as a target under MDG 5b, and it was not until after 2006 that we finally saw a reversal in maternal mortality rates. To reverse this tide mortality and morbidity, and to stand a chance of realizing sustainable development for all, access to SRHR especially family planning and the RH commodities that save lives must be strongly considered in the international and national budgets. Not only to improve health outcomes, but to strengthen societies and increase economic growth. The linkages between giving men and women the means to make informed choices about family size should be well documented. And then, with a happy, well planned and health family, only can we have a well planned, healthy community, country and universe, in environment, political and economic spheres.
12	8/14/2014 12:18:30	International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion	Marge Berer	British	United Kingdom	Female	67	We wholeheartedly support the ICPD call for access to expanded and improved contraceptive services, and training and equipping health service providers to ensure that abortion is safe and accessible where it is not against the law. What is equally important to note in the Programme of Action is that unsafe abortion is “a serious public health concern” and leads to “a large fraction of maternal deaths or permanent injury” and that governments should re-affirm “on the basis of a commitment to women's health and well-being to reduce the number of deaths and morbidity from unsafe abortion”. Safe abortion is necessary for reproductive health and rights. Abortion has had extensive attention since 1994 from within the UN system, especially by CEDAW, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, WHO and UNFPA. Although induced abortion is among the safest of all clinical procedures, and up to one in three women will have an abortion in her lifetime, half of the 43.8 million abortions annually are still unsafe. Since 1994 at least a million women have died from unsafe abortions, which constitute 13% of maternal deaths globally. This proportion has not fallen over time and young women are most at risk. Treatment for the complications of unsafe abortion uses up scarce emergency obstetric resources in public health systems in countries where abortion is legally restricted, countries which can least afford it. This doesn't happen where abortions are safe and legal. Furthermore, most women who suffer from the complications of unsafe abortions are living in poverty and young. Human rights are universal; all women who seek an abortion have the right to health, and above all, the right to life. While the prevention of unwanted pregnancy is desirable, at least 220 million women globally have an unmet need for contraception, and all contraception sometimes fails. Since 1994, global, regional and national consultations have supported women’s right to safe abortion, and statements in support of women’s right to safe abortion have been made by all the key agencies and actors in the UN and UN human rights system. A list of documents containing this evidence can be found at: http://www.medicalabortionconsortium.org/uploads/file/Campaign+Statement++Safe+abortion+and+the+post-2015+agenda.pdf
13	8/15/2014 4:26:58	Organisation of African Youth-Kenya	Kelvin Kaloki	KENYAN	KENYA	MALE	25	As the whole world gears towards the 2015 deadline we are coupled with a lot of hope and aspirations for our people. However a lot still remains to be desired, especially in the areas of health, education,and critically youth unemployment and underemployment in sub-Saharan Africa. Youth involvement and inclusion is without a doubt is of critical essence and in its place by right! Our political process and institutions remain porous and continually use the youth out of despair and oblivion to advance there malicious, hypocritical agendas, creating conditions for rise in militancy, terrorism and unstable political space. The youth, has been exploited and used as a tool for destruction instead of a formidable force for prosperity and development. As we gear towards 2015, alot remains to be desired and notably, that the fair, just and objective constructive enhancement of the youth agenda is without a doubt mature and our only hope for the future we want! The youth are the candles that will continue to light long after the old candle light is in its brink, and therefore it follows that the old stars ought to enable the young stars, full of life and at there prime, shine and lit the world with there endless glow, for prosperity, progress growth and the ultimate goal of a future free of disease, unemployment, poverty, war and all the in-human vices we face today. The only hope for all of us, of color or not is the young blood-the youth! A proper investment is an investment in the future!
14	8/15/2014 10:29:02	Echoes of Women in Africa Initiative(ECOWA)	Louisa Ono Eikhomun	Nigerian	Nigeria	Female	43	Development must go hand-in-hand with respect for rights if it is to be truly sustainable. The biggest challenge is how to eradicate different forms of inequality, both between and within countries themselves, when the current economic paradigm continues to drive inequality. For all people, but especially women andd girls, having information, comprehensive sexuality education and access to holistic, integrated health care services – especially sexual and reproductive services, including HIV prevention and detection – is crucial for our survival. It is also crucial for our quality of life, but our countries cannot even guarantee our survival. Such lack of commitment from some governments is not centered on rights, health, and education? Why doesn’t it focus on eliminating gender discrimination, which has been part of the international framework of human rights since CEDAW? Government debate did not focus on how to eliminate discrimination, stigma and social inequalities?” The challenges that religious and neo-nationalist extremist groups in her region present to the realization of human rights of women and girls underscores the importance of ensuring that Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) agendas are included in the Post 2015 Development process with the multiple challenges women face in realizing their human rights, governments should ensure that SRHR and gender based violence prevention are positioned at the heart of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and post-2015 frameworks as a high priority and critical pillar. Feminists and activists work together to pressure governments to do the right thing and to take the appropriate steps to eradicate all forms of gender based violence and domestic violence, criminalize sexual violence, and recognize the sexual and reproductive rights of people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. The denial of sexual and reproductive health and rights remains a barrier to gender equality, equity and justice. It is time for political decision-makers to not only speak, but implement. Their actions and inaction continue to cost women especially girls, their lives. Comprehensive sexuality education in schools is not the enemy. Ignorance is.”
15	8/18/2014 6:20:51	The Red Elephant Foundation	Kirthi Jayakumar	Indian	India	Female	26	Child, early and forced marriage is not only a significant violation of the rights of 14 million girls around the world each year, but it has also been a key barrier to achieving 6 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. As the world considers how we are to achieve sustainable development over the next 15 years, it would be short-sighted to ignore a practice that holds back progress toward gender equity, health, education and economic development. Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals. While ending child marriage is an important aim in itself, it will also help accelerate efforts to achieve a safe, healthy and prosperous future for girls around the world and in India.
16	8/18/2014 6:31:40	GENERATION FEMME DU TROISIEME MILLENAIRE	HONORINE VEHI SADIA	IBOIRIENNE	ABIDJAN	FEMININ	47	Le mariage des enfants est véritable drame pour l'humanité car il est d'abord une violation grave des droits fondamentaux de l'enfant ( droit à l'éducation, à la liberté... ) Ainsi, en Côte d'Ivoire, l'ONG Génération Femme du troisième Millénaire (GFM3) en a fait son cheval de bataille et s'est engagée résolument à y mettre fin dans le pays à travail des plaidoyers sur les chaines nationales de la télévision et à travers les zones rurales où ce phénomène de mariage précoce est accentué. En effet nous faisons beaucoup de sensibilisations de proximité et de masse pour décrier cette coutume néfaste. A la suite de nos plaidoyers et sensibilisations; les décideurs de la côte d'ivoire ont pris des lois pour interdire le mariage précoce et changer le code du mariage en cote d'ivoire. C'est pour quoi l'Agenda post 2015 doit mettre au cœur de ses résolutions et recommandation le drame des mariages précoces et forcés des enfants, parce que l'enfant étant l'avenir, si le développement de l'enfant est bloqué cela entraine à coup sûr le blocage de tout développement humain.
17	8/18/2014 6:44:20	Support for Integrated Health Care Initiative-SIHCI	Amanda Joan Banura	Ugandan	Uganda	Female	21	Lack of and inadequate information on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights not only in Uganda but across the globe has seen to the increase of teenage pregnancies and child marriages. Young girls are forced and some are coerced in early marriages due ignorance about their rights and also due to poverty that has left parents the only decision of marrying them off so as to gain some wealth through bride wealth/price. These same parents lack resources to keep their girl children in school and their male partners, out of ignorance and very little knowledge on Sexual reproductive health, deny their young wives the right to education. Our cry and plea to the President of the General Assembly, is to include Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights as a must for all globally, integrated with Family Planning, in the Post 2015 agenda. In future, this shall bring back returns if implemented by states, because if girls keep and stay in school longer, then the rate of teenage pregnancies will drop if not die away, and both partners(already married), shall best know how to plan for their families, with men putting much consideration on the Reproductive Health life of the young wives. This shall all bring about a turn on the population, environment, resources and better planning.
18	8/18/2014 6:49:06	BHORE	Raj Kumar Mahato	Nepali	Nepal	Male	38	Child Marriage is not only social, economic, educational, cultural & health issue but also a human right violation. Thus, Child Marriage & Dowry Eradication should be an agenda and pre-requisite for socio-economic transformation around the world. Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
19	8/18/2014 6:57:00	Egyptian Foundation for Advancement of the Childhood Condition(EFACC)	Marwa Mohssen	Egyptian	Egypt	female	27	Firstly, thanks for opening up for comments from civil society organization Child Marriage, Sexual harassment and rape becomes the most serious violations into Egyptian society that put girls at risk, consideration damage caused by silence of community and victims because of fear of scandal, occurrence of such violations for girls make CSO concerned with children have the responsibility to determine these crimes and facing it. So we need to work through these points:- • To prevent child marriage a wide range of individuals and organizations, from community leaders to international bodies, must take action. A first step is to inform parents and young people about the negative implications of child marriage so they can choose to prevent it. • Amendment of concepts for raising awareness of girls with the priority of reported each of any abuse, which it will reduce the percentage of abused for girls. • Second problem is about Education we must ensure that girls have an equal opportunity at education, which is key in postponing marriage and for the overall development of girls.
20	8/18/2014 7:04:46	ASCHIANA Org	Nazar Mohammad	Afghan	Afghanistan	Male	34	To end the early child marriages is very important as it is very crucial issue which affects the Child Rights as well, in our country this serious as girl are married in early ages and they stopped by their families to get education , to participate in the social activities and in this way when in early ages they goes to the husband's home they never knows what do to, how to take care of home, how to give respect and take care of the mother and father in laws,but most serious is they don't know how to take care of their children. and in this case this leads to several domestic violence against girls/women's.
21	8/18/2014 7:32:38	Expanding Lives	Leslie Natzke	U.S.	United States	F	51	Child marriage not only limits a girl's capacity, endangers her health, increases the likelihood of her child to be less healthy/less educated with likewise lower capacity, it slows the development of an entire nation, and therefore, the world. Eliminating child marriage should be a top priority.
22	8/18/2014 7:41:04	Jaag Welfare Movement	Abdul Rub Farooqi	Pakistani	Pakistan	Male	45	• Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. • The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. • We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritized in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
23	8/18/2014 10:14:24	CULP - Centre for Unfolding Learning Potentials	Dr. O. P. Kulhari	Indian	India	Male	55	The median age of marriage among women in India is 16.8 years in mid-2000. Child marriage is particularly debilitating for girl's health as in addition to their psychological immaturity, child brides are not physically ready for child bearing. Adolescent mothers are particularly vulnerable to problems related to pregnancy and child bearing. Of all mothers, adolescent mothers are more likely to have preterm births; Girls in the age group 15-25 make up 45% of maternal deaths in the country; Maternal mortality among adolescents is twice the rate of maternal mortality among women aged 20-34 years; Children of young mothers are 50% more likely to die than those born to mothers aged 20-29 years. Therefore, it is recommended that Government must ask to enforce the law which stop child marriage all together.
24	8/18/2014 13:35:25	Institute of Health Management, Pachod (IHMP)	Ashok Dyalchand	Indian	India	Male	60	Multiple factors lead to an inter-generational state of vulnerability and disempowerment of adolescent girls. Adolescent girls experience discrimination from an early age including child labor. They are deprived of formal education and have poor access to knowledge. They are married off at an early age, undergo social pressure to conceive early, suffer adverse consequences of early motherhood and delayed treatment seeking. The result is that they suffer from poor social skills, poor decision making power, poor reproductive and sexual health, overall poor health, domestic violence and occasionally desertion after marriage. We would like to share the findings of a recent study, conducted by Institute of Health Management Pachod in rural India, among married adolescent girls (MAGs) <=19 years of age on the devastating burden of maternal morbidity, a consequence of early marriage and conception. Mean current age of the MAGs at time of study 17.2 years MAGs illiterate or educated up to the fourth class 25 % Mean age at menarche 13.4 years Mean age at marriage 15.1 years MAGs Married before or at 15 years of age 63 % MAGs Married between 16 to 18 years 37 % Average age at first conception 15.9 years Proportion MAGs had first conception before 16 years 69 % Proportion MAGs reported a complication during pregnancy (antenatal) 78 % Proportion MAGs reported any one complication after delivery (postnatal) 66 % Proportion MAGs with any one complication had to seek medical care 75 % (Indicative of seriousness of morbidity consequent to early marriage and conception) Proportion MAGs reported low birth weight babies 21 % Proportion MAGs reported any one neonatal complication 57 % Proportion MAGs reported current use of contraceptives 21 % Proportion MAGs reported domestic violence 23 % We cannot continue to ignore the fact that we can never achieve 6 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals unless we end child marriage. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combating inequality, will not be achieved. The girl child will continue to suffer this burden of morbidity due to early and forced marriage if we do not address the problem comprehensively and strategically in the post-2015 development framework. The call to action needs to be stronger.
25	8/19/2014 1:48:29	NIDA-Pakistan	Muhammed Saad Farooqi	Pakistani	Pakistan	MALE	25	Education is one of the most powerful tools to delay the age at which girls marry as school attendance helps shift norms around child marriage. Improving girls’ access to quality schooling will increase girls’ chances of gaining a secondary education and helps to delay marriage. When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries on average four years later. Empowering girls, by offering them opportunities to gain skills and education, providing support networks and creating ‘safe spaces’ where girls can gather and meet outside the home, can help girls to assert their right to choose when they marry. Girls Not Brides members are working to empower girls by establishing girls’ groups that provide a safe space for girls to meet and share experiences, reducing their sense of isolation and vulnerability.
26	8/19/2014 5:40:47	Kaana Foundation for Outreach Programs (KAFOP)	Isagara Nyakaana	Ugandan	Uganda	Male	48	Child marriage happens across cultures, religions and ethnicities. Although the definition of child marriage includes boys, most children married under the age of 18 years are girls. One in three girls in the developing world is married before the age of 15. Every year approximately 14 million girls are married before the age of 18. This issue still remains a great concern and more serious measures to combat it still need to be taken. Child marriage target is crucial due to the following reasons; Child brides usually drop out of school and are denied the opportunity to complete their education significantly reducing their ability to earn an income. This is because they cannot acquire formal employment. Child brides are often pulled out of school and denied further education. Their children are also more likely to be illiterate. This makes it very hard to break the poverty cycle hence making it a global issue for discussion. Child brides also suffer from a range of health problem. Premature childbirth can lead to a variety of health problems for mothers, including fistula, a debilitating condition that causes chronic incontinence. Girls with fistula are often abandoned by their husbands and ostracized by society. They are also likely to suffer from mental disorders resulting from violence and abuse and this can lead to post-traumatic stress and depression. Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls` and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritized in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
27	8/19/2014 7:36:43	CONAJELUS/TCHAD	ADAM ABAKAR KAYAYE	TCHADIENNE	TCHAD	MASCULIN	37	Au Tchad le mariage précoce est une réalité 72% et constitue un obstacle réel à l'atteinte des OMD. Donc nous trouvons impératif que cela soit prise en compte dans l'après 2015. Mettre fin aux mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés doit être incorporée de manière stratégique et globale dans le cadre de développement pour l’après 2015. La formulation actuelle de la cible sur les mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés n’est pas suffisamment forte. Les mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés ont non seulement un impact dévastateur sur la vie et les droits de millions de filles et de femmes, ils ont également ralenti la réalisation de 6 des 8 Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement. A défaut d’agir fermement et immédiatement pour mettre fin à cette pratique, nous ne ferons pas de progrès ni en matière de développement économique, de réduction de la mortalité maternelle et infantile et d’amélioration de l’éducation pour tous, ni dans la lutte contre le Sida/VIH, les violences envers les femmes ou les inégalités. Nous encourageons le Président de l’Assemblée Générale et le Secrétaire Général à demander de manière explicite le lancement et la priorisation de programmes visant à mettre fin aux mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés dans le prochain cadre de développement sans quoi nous n’atteindrons pas nos objectifs de développement. Donc nous demandons votre indulgence pour que nos préoccupation soient prise en compte pour le bien être des millions des jeunes filles.
28	8/19/2014 7:48:28	RESAEC	Boubakari Hamadou	Camerounais	Cameroun	Homme	44 ans	Je dis non aux mariages précoces et forcés car nous voyons autour de nous les conséquences de cette pratique sur les victimes
29	8/19/2014 8:07:06	COURAGE2D	SARAH ENANGUE	CAMEROUNAISE	CAMEROUN	FEMME	37	Les Nations unies doivent prendre une mesure très forte pour que le mariage des petites filles soit complètement éliminé sinon certaines tribus vont croire qu'elles sont au dessus des lois, l'enfance doit être respectée par tout le monde.
30	8/19/2014 8:13:21	Association for Gender and Sustainable Human Development Empowerment	Hermine Ndjandjo	cameroonian	Cameroon	female	45	· Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. We have to fight obstetrical fistules by strenghten the call to action addressing child, early and forced marriage. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. · We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals. Let us act on all human rights for every human being. Hermine
31	8/19/2014 10:00:40	Inst. for Planetary Synthesis, Ass of World Citizens, Commons Cluster	Dr. Lisinka Ulatowska	British/Dutch	USA	F	74	Our challenge: how to meet crises the nature and scope of which we can not oversee, using mind-sets, technology and best practices that do not yet exist.The OWG Co-Chairs brilliantly kept our focus on these challenges asking delegates to respond to challenging panel discussion. They gave CS ample time to speak and resisted the negotiation mode, placing the well being of the whole above mere national interests. The ICESDF, HLPF, TechTransfer, ECOSOC and the DCF seemed to build on OWG achievements. A new much needed form of political collaboration is being achieved. Modalities to include ALL STAKEHOLDERS not just the 9 MGs are still being developed. The Secretariat was terribly understaffed. The process involved misunderstandings, power struggles, confusion and sudden breakthroughs. Needed now is simple technology and clear instructions for its use to involve people worldwide. Governments must give the Secretariat and CSOs enough time to do outreach to CS constituencies worldwide and to prepare joint statements via global consultations if they want CS input. (min. 10 days ahead of meetings). After Rio+20, the Secretariat reached out and received input from one billion people, including the most marginalized within a 6-month period and created accurate summaries. NGLS produced excellent papers, but did Governments have/take time to read them? CS Organizing Partners must resist power plays, be inclusive. CS statements must reflect input of all participants and all must be allowed to participate. People must have overview of total input expected. If they had known that the 11 global consultations were to last for a limited time only they would not have been overwhelmed and stopped responding. Having a long row of microphones for civil society (rather than just one for each MG) during conferences allowed all CSOs to respond to proceedings as needed. This process worked harmoniously. Gathering CS questions before a meeting and via web casts worked well. How to reach out to those with limited language skills and those not yet reached? Could we have a well publicized web site reachable by mobile phone worldwide where UN would post questions to CS ongoingly and request CS solutions? Thanks to all for an amazing process!
32	8/19/2014 10:18:22	ACODEV	Bagonza Livingstone	Ugandan	Uganda	Male	28	Ending Child, Early and Forced Marriage needs to be given urgent priority in the post 2015 agenda because there is still a lot that needs to be done in line with this since the Girl Child still remains vulnerable at times in the community prone to be married off early and this has a clear colleration with the achievement of other Millennium Development Goals such as Universal access to education, reducing Maternal Mortality, Child Mortality and Combating HIV/AIDS which can be addressed by tackling the root cause which is early child marriage that continues to exist in our respective communities with little being done. This is a noble cause that requires good commitment from the UN and then trickling it down to the country members to make positive and lasting responses that are measurable and sustainable. We believe that small actions can create lasting change by bringing on board all the stakeholders with good policies in place the tide can be changed but also appreciating the efforts of each stakeholder. Commitment needs to be put in place on the implementation of the already existing policies and laws by evaluating the respective countries through period reviews of the various commitments made. As actors we have strong faith and belief that having ending Child, Early and Forced marriage will have strong impact in ensuring that children future is well safe guarded and protected.
33	8/19/2014 11:26:23	Educate the Children	Lisa Lyons	U.S.	U.S.	female	45	We at Educate the Children have, for nearly 25 years, been committed to improving the quality of education available to poor children in Nepal as well as their ability to access it. Some of the obstacles, such as inadequately trained teachers and poor infrastructure, are faced more or less equally by boys and girls. Some factors, however, weigh far more heavily on girls. These include but are not limited to: 1. Inadequate family financial resources and cultural preferences for sons mean that, if a family cannot afford to send all its children to school, the daughters are more likely to be kept home. 2. Girls are more often than boys required to stay home to help with domestic chores and raising younger siblings. 3. Some parents consider it a waste of time and money to send their daughters to school, beyond a certain elementary level if at all, because "nobody will want a bride" who is more educated than the pool of prospective husbands, and because what will she do with an education anyway? These factors perpetuate the cycle of poverty by in effect promoting child marriage, especially among girls even as young as 10 or 11, and unsustainably large families. The solution to this problem involves two key components: 1. Nations, both on their own and working together, must take a strong stand to prohibit and enforce the prohibition of child and forced marriage. 2. NGOs, INGOs, and governmental partners must work to create the circumstances that render child and forced marriage a less "necessary" or attractive option, in part by making it likelier that children are able to complete their educations and that those educations prepare them to become healthy, productive adults. We at ETC strongly encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to stress in any and all relevant communications that programs to end child, early, and forced marriage must be instigated and prioritized in all states if we are to achieve and maintain the SDGs. For our own part, we (like the many dozens of other Girls Not Brides coalition members) are committed to promoting the educational opportunities that ensure that children stay in school longer, are less likely to marry young, and can better support the families they eventually have. Thank you.
34	8/19/2014 11:31:58	SOLIDARITE DES FEMMES BURUNDAISES POUR LA LUTTE CONTRE LE SIDA ET LE PALUDISME AU BURUNDI	ESPERANCE NTIRAMPEBA	BURUNDI	BURUNDI	FEMME	26	Nous les femmes burundaises reclamons les droits de nos jeunes filles et demandons à l'AG des nations unies de : Mettre fin aux mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés doit être incorporée de manière stratégique et globale dans le cadre de développement pour l’après 2015. •La formulation actuelle de la cible sur les mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés n’est pas suffisamment forte. Les mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés ont non seulement un impact dévastateur sur la vie et les droits de millions de filles et de femmes, ils ont également ralenti la réalisation de 6 des 8 Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement. A défaut d’agir fermement et immédiatement pour mettre fin à cette pratique, nous ne ferons pas de progrès ni en matière de développement économique, de réduction de la mortalité maternelle et infantile et d’amélioration de l’éducation pour tous, ni dans la lutte contre le Sida/VIH, les violences envers les femmes ou les inégalités. •Nous encourageons le Président de l’Assemblée Générale et le Secrétaire Général à demander de manière explicite le lancement et la priorisation de programmes visant à mettre fin aux mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés dans le prochain cadre de développement sans quoi nous n’atteindrons pas nos objectifs de développement. Au Burundi un pays pauvre a besoins des femmes et jeunes filles scolarisées pour faire avancer les droits de la femme et le développement inclusif. Merci Mme Espérance du Burundi SFBLSP_BURUNDI
35	8/19/2014 11:35:21	TERRE DES JEUNES DU BURUNDI	JEAN NKESHIMANA	BURUNDI	BURUNDI	HOMME	40	Nous lesJeunes du Burundi lançons un appel pressant au Président de l'AG des nations unies de : Mettre fin aux mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés doit être incorporée de manière stratégique et globale dans le cadre de développement pour l’après 2015. •La formulation actuelle de la cible sur les mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés n’est pas suffisamment forte. Les mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés ont non seulement un impact dévastateur sur la vie et les droits de millions de filles et de femmes, ils ont également ralenti la réalisation de 6 des 8 Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement. A défaut d’agir fermement et immédiatement pour mettre fin à cette pratique, nous ne ferons pas de progrès ni en matière de développement économique, de réduction de la mortalité maternelle et infantile et d’amélioration de l’éducation pour tous, ni dans la lutte contre le Sida/VIH, les violences envers les femmes ou les inégalités. •Nous encourageons le Président de l’Assemblée Générale et le Secrétaire Général à demander de manière explicite le lancement et la priorisation de programmes visant à mettre fin aux mariages d’enfants, précoces et forcés dans le prochain cadre de développement sans quoi nous n’atteindrons pas nos objectifs de développement. Au pays pauvre comme Burundi ne pourra jamais atteindre les OMD sans que les femmes et jeunes filles scolarisées pour faire avancer les droits de la femme et le développement inclusif. Jean du Burundi
36	8/19/2014 22:53:18	PISRF-programme integre de sante de reproduction et familiale	Andre shongo Diamba	Democratic Republic of Congo	Democratic Republic of Congo	Male	50	Drear Mr President of General Assembly. From our time, I would believe that the witness is at service of human.According to this think, it is misunderstand to see some human categorical improve the mariage of children, in reality it is harm and be considered as a form of slave never unknow before. this kind of mariage is wrong, and we must take a common engagement to stop this habit, the children have their place at school , the time require so long possible until they become adulte able to process to a good choice for live. the mariage of children delay all development intiative, our hope and plea are at your hand, please forward to decision makers. thank you
37	8/20/2014 4:30:29	Peace Foundation	Muhammad Aslam	Pakistani	Pakistan	Male	48	All countries should pass law to set 18 years age suitable for marriage. All countries should ensure its implementation. There should be third party evaluation in developing countries where early marriages are common.
38	8/20/2014 4:34:49	TERRES DES FEMMES	Christa Stolle - Director	German	Germany	F	0	We TERRES DES FEMMES GERMANY, member of Girls not Brides, maintain that ending child, early and forced marriage must be specifically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. Including child, early and forced marriage simply as an example of harmful practice is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a uniquely significant impact on the human rights of girls and women. Child, early and forced marriage has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. A specific target must be included in order to hold states directly accountable in abolishing this practice. If simply included as an example, in the face of limited resources, states are free to argue that efforts have been directed to adressing other harmful practices or to achieving other goals. „Harmful practices“ is in itself too broad in order to provide specific state targets. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
39	8/20/2014 7:30:21	Association de Lutte contre les Violences faites aux Femmes (ALVF-EN)	Mme Billé Siké	Camerounaise	Cameroun	Feminin	61 ans	La pratique des mariages précoces et forcés des filles est une réalité que vivent des millions de filles et de femmes au Cameroun et dans le monde. Elle suscite d'autres violences physiques (bastonnades), sexuelles (viols, inceste, harcèlement, etc), psychologiques (traumatisme dû à la séparation de la fille de sa famille, l'arrêt du rêve et du projet de la petite fille, la sous-scolarisation), économiques (pauvreté de la fille désormais femme). En outre, l’existence de cette pratique ralenti la réalisation de 6 des 8 Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement. Cependant, la formulation actuelle de la cible sur le mariage précoce et forcé des enfants n’est pas suffisamment forte. Nous encourageons le Président de l’Assemblée Générale et le Secrétaire Général à demander de manière explicite le lancement et la priorisation de programmes visant à mettre fin au mariage précoce et forcé des enfants dans le prochain cadre de développement durable sans quoi nous n’atteindrons pas nos objectifs de développement. L’Association de Lutte contre les Violences faites aux Femmes (ALVF) du Cameroun dénonce les mariages précoces et forcés des filles comme « un crime contre l’humanité » et dit « OUI » à : Mettre fin aux mariages précoces et forcés des filles doit être incorporé de manière stratégique et globale dans le cadre de développement pour l’après 2015.
40	8/20/2014 7:37:55	National Integrated Development Association (NIDA-Pakistan)	Dr. Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi	Pakistani	Pakistan	Male	32	Funds Allocation, Networking and Capacity building for the organizations form third world countries and specially Pakistan.
41	8/20/2014 18:08:35	JAGRITI YOUTH	Rubi Kumari	Indian	Indian	Female	18
42	8/20/2014 21:45:22	Sustainable Population Australia	Jane O'Sullivan	Australian	Australia	Female	53	On behalf of Sustainable Population Australia, I urge the President of the General Assembly to include a dedicated goal for ending child, early and forced marriage in the Post-2015 Agenda. It is vitally important for human development that these practices are ended. Forced marriage is a form of slavery, which should be universally abhorred. However, early marriage has many other repercussions for the communities in which it is practiced. It prevents these communities from benefiting from the full participation of women in economic and sociopolitical life. It deprives women of education and career choices, and exposes them to a range of health risks. It results in early motherhood and large families, which drive unsustainable population growth. Poverty and hunger cannot be alleviated while population growth outstrips the improvements in productivity. In least developed countries, population growth has been the greatest impediment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It is no coincidence that forced marriage is prevalent in many of these countries. Giving women freedom to pursue their own goals and control their own fertility is essential to ensure the lowest possible peak population, which presents the highest possibility for human development, ecosystem function and biodiversity protection. Child, early and forced marriage is thus not only a crime against the girls involved, but a crime against future generations and against the other species which share our planet.
43	8/21/2014 0:40:53	Association of parents of disabled-children (APDC)	Seinep Dyikanbaeva	Kyrgyz	Kyrgyzstan	Female	29	To High-level Stocktaking Event on the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Contributions to the Secretary-General’s Synthesis Report Trusteeship Council Chamber, 11-12 September, 2014 It is very important to include rights of people with disabilities, especially with mental disability because they are more vulnerable. Additionally, not only rights of people with disabilities, but situation in case of family view. Families are who related to disability in case of child disability also have to be discuss as important. In many countries, particularly in development countries families face with lack of rehabilitation, education, medical services. If they have access to services they are not sufficient. For instance: determination disability in intrauterine period, intervention of disability. However, the most important is to development of a person in case of disability in every stage of human life and meet needs in childhood, juvenile age, maturation and etc. but it is connected with all people because every people can meet with barriers, especially who is included in a vulnerable group. June 9th 2014 First Global Forum on Disability: Voice of Our Own “Among the world's 1 billion people with disabilities, 800 million live in the Global South. The World Bank reports that people with disabilities comprise 20 percent of the world’s poorest of the poor, in fact majority of them are in the developing countries that have been experiencing a higher risk of living in poverty, deprivation and neglect”. If we will include families, friends, experts etc. it will be huge amount of people who is related with disability then it will be more than 1 billion. Therefore it is very important to take in account people with disabilities and their families.
44	8/21/2014 0:45:52	Blue Veins	Qamar Naseem	Pakistani	Pakistan	Male	38	Child, early and forced marriage undermines human rights, gender equality and development efforts worldwide. As 2015 approaches and the global community sets its agenda for development in the coming years, child marriage should emerge as a critical issue that must be addressed in the targets set for post-2015. Addressing child, early and forced marriage and the fate of the child brides should be one of the key priority area. It should be ensured that the problem of child marriage are included in the post-2015 development agenda and the post 2015 framework should explicitly encompass targets and innovative strategies prevent and reduce child, early and forced marriage . To continue progress towards meeting the MDGs and as part of the post-2015 development agenda, world should prioritize strategies to achieve gender equality and promote policies and community-based programs that seek to eliminate gender disparity within education, including efforts to combat child marriage. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritized in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
45	8/21/2014 1:00:53	disability access project	caroline	mosotho	Lesotho	female	42	The world we want As people with disability we want the accessible world post 2015, where environment is enabling not disabling as is now the case. All mdgs targets will never be achieved unless people with disability can access them through environment, institutional systems and attitudinal practice that encourage and assures belonging. Mdgs should be aligned with UNCRPD and other instruments promoting disability rights with clear involvement of people with disability and monitoring strategies from country to international level. So far development work has focused on physical and psychological abilities of people excluding those with disability as a result. Including needs of people with disabilities caters for majority of society members in many ways and should be enforce for a better world.
46	8/21/2014 3:37:37	UPHB	Clarisse NDAYIRAGIJE	Burundaise	BURUNDI	Feminin	30	Nous les jeunes vivant avec un handicap nous voulons faire appel pour que le SG des Nations Unies des défis que rencontre les filles et femmes vivant avec un handicap surtout aux violences sexuelles que celles ci font face
47	8/21/2014 4:08:32	National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda	Mwesigwa Martin Babu	Ugandan	Uganda	Male	44	What we would like to see in the Post 2015 development agenda as Persons with disabilities is a framework that is aligned to the paradigm shift of viewing disability as a socio-economic development issue, one that embraces a human rights approach, in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD). Our issues may be summarized as follows:- 1. People with disabilities need special support such as skills, appropriate technology, access to information, in order for them to actively participate in wealth creation and livelihood enhancement activities 2. Land is a critical aspect in agriculture and it is therefore important that people with disabilities access land. 3. Governments should provide guarantees (especially where people with disabilities lack collateral) for low-cost development finances (medium and long term) to be accessed by people with disabilities for investments geared towards alleviating poverty and as a way of creating employment. 4. People with disabilities should be provided with key agricultural technologies (including technical advice in processing, storage, preservation) from governments to boost their productivity. 5. Governments come up with mechanisms to link and guarantee markets for products produced by people with disabilities 6. Governments should provide avenues that enhance accessibility and utilization of the available education opportunities at all levels (primary to University and other Tertiary institutions. 7. Governments should ensure that the necessary and relevant human resource is trained, equipped and facilitated to teach children and youth with disabilities. Special needs training should be emphasized, promoted and funded. 8. It is important to sensitize parents of children with disabilities to the positive elements of rehabilitation process and education. IN conclusion, it is important that the Post 2015 Development Agenda incorporates unprecedented measures and targets to ensure that the most vulnerable of the population – persons with disabilities – their issues and needs are mainstreamed in the new plan. For God and My Country.
48	8/21/2014 6:14:07	Sensoa	Marlies Casier	Belgium	Belgium	Female	34	We would like to strongly affirm the need to include sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the Post-2015 framework, which is essential to ensure sustainable development and realize poverty eradication. We consequently want to recall the joint statement delivered during the Open Working Group 13 session, by 58 member states, voicing strong and explicit support for SRHR in the Post-2015 framework. In their statement the member states called for the inclusion of the following targets in the framework: -under a health goal: ‘Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, including quality, comprehensive, integrated and affordable sexual and reproductive health information, education and services that include modern methods of contraception’. This will help ensure the inclusion and advancement of the off-track MDG5b. -under a gender Equality goal: ‘Ensure the respect, promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all’, which will advance a rights-based approach to development, and ensure that both women ànd men are included in our efforts to realize gender equality. -under an education goal: ‘Achieve universal access to comprehensive sexuality education for all young people, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities', which is in line with the recommendations from the Commission on the Status of Women, and which has shown to have a very positive impact on the lives and (future) opportunities of young people.
49	8/21/2014 6:26:14	WaterAid	Ross Bailey	British	United Kingdom	Male	32	As a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) focused organisation, WaterAid is pleased to see the increasing visibility of these key issues in the debates and outcomes of the 68th session of the UN General Assembly. We thank the President of the General Assembly for focusing his first debate on water and sanitation. WaterAid backs the recommendations of the WASH sector consultation (found at www.wateraid.org/post2015 ) and encourage member states to review this. This technical expert led consultation involving more than 60 organisations calls for four main targets: i) Eliminating open defecation ii) Ensuring universal access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene for households, health facilities and schools iii) Half the number of people without access to safely managed water and sanitation iv) Progressively eliminating inequalities in access for the most marginalised populations. Whilst recognising the work of all member states and committees working on this process, we particularly welcome the proposals for a dedicated goal on water and sanitation in the report of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development (OWG). We welcome the proposals for ambitious targets for universal access not only to drinking water [Target 6.1] but also to sanitation and hygiene [6.2] which was not included in the MDGs. We are particularly pleased that the targets for universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene [6.1 & 6.2] make explicit reference to improving equity and addressing the needs of vulnerable groups including women and girls. We welcome recognition of the importance of ending open defecation, which disproportionately affects poor and vulnerable groups, as a first priority in efforts to achieve universal access to sanitation and hygiene [6.2]. The goals and targets outlined by the OWG are a good start. We now call on member states to go further and consider the following changes Universal access language for targets 6.1 and 6.2 should be consistent. Language used in 6.1 is preferable i.e. ‘achieve universal and equitable access to’ ‘Paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations’ is equally important for drinking water as for sanitation and hygiene. Targets 6.1 and 6.2 should adopt the same formulation. Non-household settings should be included in targets 6.1 and 6.2 Future iterations should include reference to non-household settings in targets themselves and/or accompanying indicators.
50	8/21/2014 6:47:44	International Planned Parenthood Federation	Heather Barclay	British	United Kingdom	Female	36	With so much riding on the post-2015 development framework, the multiple processes to determine its shape have been of paramount importance. Despite the political challenges related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the importance of SRHR and its compelling evidence base ensured it was reflected in a majority of the discussions and outcomes. We welcome the reflection from the President of the General Assembly’s first event, Contributions of women, the young and civil society to the post-2015 development agenda, which mentioned SRHR and linked it clearly to gender equality. The Health section proposed having a “…universal goal on health, including comprehensive sexual and reproductive health, with consideration to the special needs of women and adolescent girls. The right of women to have control over their sexual and reproductive health, reduction in child marriages and teen pregnancies were identified as possible targets in the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.” We welcome the fact that SRHR was mentioned in every stocktaking and consensus-building session of the Open Working Group and that many states reinforced support for SRHR as central to the sustainable development agenda. It is imperative this continues as a target under both health and gender goals. We call on the President of the General Assembly and States to ensure that all discussions and negotiations build on the strong support for SRHR over the past 18 months. We encourage integration of the ICPD Beyond 2014 Review outcomes and the Secretary- General’s Index Report on themes from the assessment of the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action into the post-2015 process, especially with respect to the issues of adolescents’ access to sexual and reproductive health services, information and education; access to contraceptive information, services and supplies and safe and legal abortion services; universal access to sexual rights and reproductive rights, including measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence based on gender identity or sexual orientation; and gender equality and the empowerment of women. SRHR is central to achieving all three pillars of sustainable development. Learning from the MDGs, it is clear that without SRHR, all other goals will not be met and people around the world will not achieve their potential or realize their essential rights. We call for leadership to ensure SRHR is central to the new framework.
51	8/21/2014 9:04:52	Disabled Peoples International Italy	Giampiero Griffo	Italian	Italy	Male	62	The 15% of the world population are persons with disabilities, the 80% live in the developing countries, thay represent the poorest of the poor. This target must be included in the MDGs because in all 8 area they are discriminated and lack of equal opportunities respect of other people. The UNCRPD ask to respect the Human Rights of these persons (the 76% of the UN countries have yet ratified the CRPD so is an international recognised standard). The articdle 32 of the UNCRPD engage the states parties to include disability in the international cooperation. Include persons with disabilities as a main target in the MDGs means promote a really eradication of poverty in the world.
52	8/21/2014 9:34:40	JAGRITI YOUTH	Rubi Kumari	Indian	Indian	Female	18	We request the High Level Committee to ensure there is a separate goal on ending Child Marriage everywhere. For the world goals to have meaning they should be relevant and useful to us at the community level- we want to end child marriage in one generation because we know it is possible to do this. We are youth leaders from Bihar. In our groups we have unmarried girls and boys who are between the ages of 14 and 24. Our groups have been working in 27 villages to address child marriage. 1. Ending Child Marriage must be a separate goal because it can be measured as one action that can have impact on different indicators of human development, especially on health and opportunity. If child marriage is buried under a general term of harmful practice then it will not be addressed or it will be lost under all the other problems that we face in our community. 2. Child marriage is an activity that changes a person’s status. Not like other issues which can be a process such as stopping gender and sex discrimination and this takes much longer. Whereas if we use the legal laws and child protection activities we can stop child marriages. 3. To make community behavior change we have to show proof that it is possible to stop a bad practice. Otherwise the youth themselves and the community lose hope to stop the practice. They see police and courts and government are ignoring or sometimes even supporting the practice. Every time a child marriage is stopped then it sends a message it is possible to change. 4. Child marriage is now also getting connected to trafficking because the girls are taken with false promises of marriage and then they are sold to someone. We know this because it has happened in our community. 5. Our experiences should also be taken into account so that very specific activities can be undertaken to increase the accountability of adults who are given responsibility to protect us from child marriage. 6. As Youth Leaders who are everyday trying to make difference in the community we encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritized in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals
53	8/21/2014 10:03:01	International Children's Center	Adem Arkadas-Thibert	Turkish / French	Turkey	Male	41	Each issue around sustainable development has effect on the rights and well-being of the child, the most vulnerable member of the human family that promises a better future if her/his rights are protected, promoted and fulfilled. Therefore, child protection from "fear and want" should be at the forefront in consideration of post2015 development agenda. Children's right to freedom from fear (violence) and want (basic needs) cannot be addressed without addressing following issues which should find their place in the post2015 development agenda: * Ending child, early and forced marriage * Banning all forms of violence against children in all settings * Reproductive and sexual health and rights * Compulsory early childhood care education and development
54	8/21/2014 11:24:45	association pour la promotion de l'autonomie et de droit de la jeune fille (APAD)	presidante	camerounaise	africain	feminin	19	nous voulons que le mariage des enfants fait parti des parti du programme de développement pour l'après 2015 ,car malgré nos efforts beaucoup des régions surtout en Afrique centrale ou les mariages précoces et forcés continues il restes encore beaucoup a faire pour que ce fléau prend fin dans nos campagne et le mariage des enfants doit forcement inclure le programme de développement pour l'après 2015 et donc nous contons sur votre bonne compréhension.
55	8/21/2014 11:28:56	Flying Broom Women Communication and Research Association	Nazlı Dülger	Turkish	Turkey	Female	25	Child, early and forced marriage is a social problem that requires global attention. It is not only a human rights problem it is also a problem that blocks the developments of countries. Many countries around the world has experienced this social problem and Turkey is one of them. According to Turkish Demographic and Health Survey (2008) the percentage of women that are getting married under the age 18 is 28 % at country level. It changes according to regions, it is 37 % in Central Anatolia Region and 40-42 % in Southeastern parts of Turkey. Within the light of these data, the problem of child, early and forced marriage in Turkey is an issue that cannot be ignored. Child marriage is one of the most important factors that enhance gender inequality. It increases the probability of experiencing violence in the family and reinforce the patriarchal gender roles through emphasizing that women’s primer responsibilities are related to home, raising children and taking care of their husbands. Child marriage blocks the right of education of girls. Inadequate education affects the employment of women negatively which directly affects the level of development of the countries. Beyond the countries the child marriage may became an international issue when it is entered the boundaries of human trafficking. It also has many destructive effects of the health of girls and women. Most of the time early marriage can be associated with early motherhood which is inappropriate for a girl both at physiologic and psychological levels. To summarize, child, early and forced marriage is both a cause and effect of human rights violation. Therefore, it needs to be given urgent priority in the post 2015 agenda.
56	8/21/2014 11:29:16	United Nations Association of Uganda- UNAU	Linda Asaba A.	Ugandan	Uganda	Female	25yrs	We call for consensus on a goal for peaceful societies. We urge Member States supportive of a standalone goal to address the concerns of those who are hesitant of its inclusion. The post-2015 development agenda must be comprehensive, inclusive, and multidimensional if it is to truly leave no-one behind
57	8/21/2014 11:39:45	United Nations Association of Uganda- UNAU	Baguma T. Richard	Ugandan	Uganda	Male	45	The post2015 Development agenda must have a specific goal focusing on youth. Investing in empowering the youth in meaningful and sustainable ways is one of the most critical issues that must be engaged in and effectively concluded by governments and all other stake holders.
58	8/21/2014 11:43:36	United Nations Association of Uganda- UNAU	Linda Asaba A.	Ugandan	Uganda	Female	25	A Peaceful and secure environment is one that attracts several investors both locals and from the international community. This will encourage development that we all are thriving for. Hence the Member states should consider having a goal on peaceful societies in the development agenda.
59	8/21/2014 11:44:17	STOPAIDS	Matt Grady	UK	UK	Male	36	The MDGs have driven progress in development but the poor & most marginalised have been left behind exacerbating inequalities. The framework must have equality and human rights at its core, leave no-one behind, be sustainable and have a transformative impact on poverty and inequality. We support an outcomes focused health goal to ensure healthy lives for all and we support a target to end HIV and AIDS, TB & malaria as public health threats by 2030. We welcome the Open Working Group’s ambitious target to end these diseases. Increased access to treatment has effectively reduced transmission rates and with targeted scale up of access to testing, counselling and antiretroviral therapy, HIV could be brought under control. Ending these diseases as public health threats would have positive impacts on the health and wealth of the poor and most vulnerable communities, promote economic development and reduce poverty and inequality. Everyone has the right to access high quality health services that fulfil their needs. We support a target to achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, with particular attention to the most marginalised and people in vulnerable situations. UHC will only be achieved when services are being accessed, all barriers to access such as stigma and discrimination should be removed. Decisions on services delivered under UHC should be based on the evidence of burden and cover prevention, treatment, care and support. The package of health services delivered under UHC should not cut out expensive or politically unpopular services such as HIV treatment, harm reduction and family planning services. Barriers remain that magnify inequalities within and between countries. Women & girls face a disproportionate risk and impact of HIV due to gender power imbalances which result in economic disempowerment, gender-based violence and denial of human rights. Young people are denied access to information on sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. We support a gender equality goal and targets for SRHR. The scale up of the AIDS response has only been possible with the utilisation of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) flexibilities to deliver affordable generic drugs. Generic anti-retroviral (ARV) production has delivered price reductions without which the AIDS response would be impossible but the use of TRIPs flexibilities is under attack and must be protected.
60	8/21/2014 12:12:29	Lumos - www.wearelumos.org.uk	Corinna Csaky	British	United Kingdom	Female	0	Achieving equitable development: Inclusion of children in institutions At least 8 million children worldwide live in institutions,the majority of whom have a disability.Children with disabilities are highly vulnerable and largely excluded from mainstream socio-economic structures and services. Children living in orphanages and other types of residential care are at significant risk of harm,lack access to basic services and are condemned to a lifetime of dependency and exclusion.Poverty,lack of access to health services and inclusive education in the community forces parents to place their children into institutions in the belief they will be better cared for.This is in violation of several child rights and hinders efforts towards broader development targets such as growth,employment,poverty reduction,health,education and humanitarian preparedness and response. Achieving equity within the new post-2015 development framework would mean ensuring that the development goals address the needs of children living in institutions, particularly those with disabilities.The progress and well-being of this highly vulnerable group should be included as an indicator of the effectiveness of broader development efforts.The post-2015 framework is an opportunity to ensure children in institutions, particularly those with disabilities,are targeted through inclusive policies and programmes,ensuring funds are spent to replace institutional care with community-based alternatives,and supporting children’s participation throughout every step of the post-2015 development process. Recommendations -Achieving equity means that the effectiveness of all development goals within the post-2015 framework should be measured,in part,by the extent to which they deliver changes for children in institutional care,particularly those with disabilities. -Development efforts around health,education,humanitarian preparedness and response,and poverty reduction must be inclusive and targeted to children in or at risk of being in institutional care,particularly children with disabilities. -The post-2015 framework must support children in institutions,including those with disabilities,to participate in every step of the post-2015 development process. Lumos is an international NGO working to end the institutionalisation of children around the world. We are member of the Global Partnership for Children with Disabilities,Global Alliance for Children and the European Expert Group on Disabilities.
61	8/21/2014 12:13:45	United Nations Association of Uganda- UNAU	Agaba Ronald	Ugandan	Uganda	male	27	Given that you have lived and stayed in a developing country, i believe you have experience first-hand the challenges that are being faced especially when it comes the issue of peace security and conflict prevention. I believe I speak for most of the developing countries when I say that peace, security and conflict prevention are key for development and better livelihood, at most in among African states. Absence of security results into constant conflicts therefore our communities are left to live in fear and terror with no peace. This in turn later translates into destruction of infrastructure and the already attained economic development taking as back to square one which is rebuilding. I request that your term in office be that of a change, the one where the marginalized voices get to be heard, where issues like these will be given priority. Support the inclusion of post 2015 development agenda.
62	8/21/2014 20:05:16	CMG EMPOWERMENT GHANA	Daniel Owusu	Ghanaian	Ghana	Male	28	As current indicators show of 29% of Early child marriage in Africa, Ghana is the highest is West I humbly suggest that, the manner at which full engagement was allocated for HIV/AIDS, Malaria campaigns so should be to effectively end this growing canker. Also,I suggest the right a and competent people (government officials or policymakers) should be at the helm of affairs for it's one thing to state strategic plans on paper and the other things to get passionate and grassroots practitioners to implement it. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. The Secretary-General I look up to you for you have the global platform to push the right bottoms to ignite the campaign.
63	8/21/2014 22:00:46	Wheels in Motion	Lasanthi Daskon Attanayake	Sri Lankan	Sri Lanka	Female	40 Years	Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in the Health and Education sectors. However, we continue to neglect our persons with disabilities. The main gap could be in awareness and understanding. PWDs as a community are not empowered and they lack opportunities for independence. The numerous programmes that have been introduced seem to have only touched the surface and have not reached the grassroots communities. On the other hand the policy makers and administrators lack understanding on the relevance of inclusion. The charity approach is still dominant.
64	8/22/2014 1:54:14	"The Awakening"	Erfaan Hussein Babak	Pakistan	Pakistan	Male	31	We have these few comments that the post 2015 development framework must address the health , rights and well being of girls and women particularly their Sexual and reproductive health and rights. Also there is a strong need for Life skills based education in the curriculum so that they can feel secure and in and out of schools. To monitor and respond to the incidence of violence there needs to be a District Protection working group in each district of the province to advise government and policy makers and to protect and respond to incidence of violence against adolescent girls. In Pakistan at the policy level we face problems with the IIC (Islamic Ideology Council) that continuously give Fatwas (Islamic declarations) about child marriage. (the recent one says that girls should be married at age of 9). This is a great challenge for the civil society to nullify the declarations of these so called religious scholars as they have the power over the minds and body of the people through religious teachings. This requires brainstorming on how to tackle such councils who are passing such declarations. Social media could be used as a platform to raise maximum awareness about the issues of Early and forced marriages and FGM There is a need of close coordination for alliance building and supporting each other. As when an issue is raised the other members of the civil society should respond together to issues of child marriage.
65	8/22/2014 3:06:49	Arab NGO Network for Development	Zahra Bazzi	Lebanese	Lebanon	Female	34	Ridding the world of foreign occupation is a main priority in the post-2015 development process. The Israeli occupation of Palestine and other Arab territories remains the only and longest-lasting occupation in modern history. The latest attack on Gaza has left so far more than 2017 dead 80% are civilians and 555 are 18 years and younger. Consequently it is necessary to adopt the position of G77 and China to include the following language under SDG16 on peace and justice: “Rio+20 reiterated the commitment to take further effective measures and actions, in conformity with international law, to remove the obstacles to the full realization of the right of self-determination of peoples living under colonial and foreign occupation, which continue to adversely affect their economic and social development as well as their environment, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and must be combated and eliminated”. On the Socio-Economic level, the new development agenda must integrate transformative changes to global governance and to national policies in order to achieve development and to overcome the challenges of inequality, exclusion and unemployment. This necessitates a shift towards a model centered on enhancing national productivity which requires an enabling trade and investment architecture, a revision of the redistribution and wages’ policies and the adoption of social policies prioritizing peoples’ economic and social rights.
66	8/22/2014 3:07:54	Arab NGO Network for Development	Zahra Bazzi	Lebanese	Lebanon	Female	34	The new development model should adopt a reformed trading system and a shift from the conundrum “Liberalization for the sake of Liberalization” to a “Strategic Integration Concept”. This requires protecting development policy space of countries involved in trade agreements, organizing the role of the private sector in the development process and adopting an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations as agreed by the Human Rights Council on June 30th 2014. The new developmental model must adopt policies for fair redistribution of wealth and resources through progressive taxation and providing all the necessary public services with a good quality and link it to fair wage policies which contribute to increasing the consumption capacities, thus strengthening the participation of all social groups in the national economic cycle. This should include: Increasing fiscal transparency, Implementing progressive tax addressing inequalities while generating revenue in an equitable way and promoting the principle of tax equity and balance between taxes on individuals in the form of income and consumption taxes on the one hand and taxes on companies and huge investments on the other hand. It also requires Abolishing discretionary tax incentives and tax havens. The new development model must foster a new social contract including: A global commitment by the international community to provide adequate financial and technical supports to developing countries to build social protection systems. The human rights based social protection floors’ initiative is a basis for other developmental processes and to not abandon it through fragmented approaches to social protection. This necessitates a shift from the concepts of social safety nets, targeting programs and cash transfers in order to consider social protection schemes in a broad development strategy aimed at achieving social justice and the realization of human rights.
67	8/22/2014 3:34:01	Väestöliitto-Family Federation of Finland	Hilkka Vuorenmaa	Finnish	Finland	Female	60	Väestöliitto – Family Federation of Finland welcomes the opportunity to give input to the PGA’s Stock-taking event on the post-2015. There are several points that we want to raise: 1) We appreciate that “universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services including for family planning, information and education and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes” has been reinstated into the proposed health goal no.3. However, it still falls short by not including sexual rights. 2) We strongly suggest that under the proposed gender goal 5/point 5.6., the inclusion of the formulation “sexual and reproductive health and rights” instead of only referring to “reproductive rights”. Reproductive rights and sexual rights mean different things. Reproductive rights are human rights as they relate to a person’s fertility, reproduction, reproductive health, and parenthood. Sexual rights are human rights that relate among others to a person’s right to decide upon her/his sexuality, right for bodily integrity, right to be free from sexual harassment and abuse, and right to choose whether and with whom to have sex. Therefore it is inadequate to only refer to the former which does not encompass the latter. 3) Under proposed goal 4 on education we call for the inclusion of a target on comprehensive sexuality education, which provides accurate information on sexual and reproductive health and rights for all adolescents an youth in and out of school. Such a target is crucial to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. 4) The document lacks a holistic focus on adolescents and young people. Reference to youth is mostly limited to education and employment. This needs to be strengthened through specific youth targets and indicators across the framework. Inclusion of youth and adolescents is specifically important under Education goal (provision of comprehensive sexuality education), Health goal (universal access to sexual and reproductive health services for young people, particularly for adolescent girls) and in the Water and sanitation goal (ensure separate sanitation facilities for girls in schools in order to avoid school dropout due to incapability for girls’ to safely use the sanitation facilities without stigma and fear of sexual abuse). The proposed targets also fail to recognize the central role of young people in development.
68	8/22/2014 4:00:06	Human rights movement Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan	Lira Ismailova	kyrgyz	Kyrgyz Republic	female	39	Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. · The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. · We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals. Kyrgyzstan: (1) There is the growing incidence of early motherhood in Kyrgyzstan (from 4,4 child per 1000 of parturient of 15-17 years of age in 2006 up to 7,2 in 2011), which is adversely affecting the reproductive health of minors as well as restricting the rights of girls for education and development. (2) The early motherhood in the country is associated with rising number of marriages involving minors, the lack of awareness of young people on reproductive health and family planning, as well as growing sexual crimes against minors. However, apart from the age threshold for marriage and responsibility for coerced marriage, there are no government programs to prevent the marriages with minors in the country. (3) The early marriages are often concluded through agreements of parents and the bride kidnapping. Furthermore, the existing mechanism of bringing the perpetrators of forced marriages to trial doesn’t work - the vast majority of persons involved in committing this kind of crime are left unpunished. (4) There is no legal responsibility with regard to religious ministers, consecrating/blessing the marriage with underage girls, thereby acting as accomplices of crime violating their rights. This greatly contributes to the spread of the practice of early marriages and poses the religious ministers above the law.
69	8/22/2014 5:49:04	Comité Nigérien sur les pratiques traditionnelles ayant effet sur la santé des femmes et des enfants (CONIPRAT)	Mme Djataou Ouassa Secrétaire Exécutive Adjointe CONIPRAT	Nigérienne	Niger	Féminine	60	Au Niger les mariages précoces et forcés constituent une des importantes violences faites aux filles. Le taux de prévalence est très important 74% en 2011 d’après l’UNICEF. Cette pratique traditionnelle encouragée par l’islam est un frein au développement du pays car les femmes représentent 50,14% de la population et ne peuvent pas participer efficacement au développement du pays car déscolariser très tôt ou même analphabètes. La pauvreté dans laquelle végètent plus de 64% de la population est une autre préoccupation car la femme nigérienne en paye une lourde tribu. Les mariages précoces et forcés maintiennent la jeune fille dans le cycle de la pauvreté. Les mariages précoces et forcés sont aussi la raison de la démographie galopante au Niger. En effet le taux de fécondité est en 2013 de l’ordre de 8 enfants par femmes. D’autres conséquences qui découlent de tous ces éléments est la mortalité maternelle élevée, de même que la mortalité infantile. La mortalité maternelle se situe à 6,48‰ et la mortalité infantile 123‰. Tous ces indicateurs alarmants peuvent être évités si une législation venait à fixer l’âge du mariage à 18 ans au lieu de 12, 13, 9 ans qu’on a l’habitude d’enregistrer comme âge au cours duquel les filles sont mariées
70	8/22/2014 6:50:14	Armenian United Nations Association	Amalya Grigoryan	Armenian	Republic of Armenia	Female	27	All the potential SDGs highlighted by the various sessions organized on different levels for the upcoming development agenda are interdependent. Not only the goals and the Post-2015 Development agenda as a whole should be inclusive and universal but also the solution of its implementation should be as much inclusive and universal as it is possible. Interdependence makes easy to define the issues but it makes complexities during the implementation. In the light of the MDG’s outcomes and evaluation the provision of the peaceful environment should be a must to flatten. We call all the Member States to express their political will to achieve the consensus on the 'peaceful' post-2015. In this regards we call our partners and colleagues around the world to raise awareness on the importance of peace in the Post-2015 as a formula of our common progress. Having in regard the statement of the WFUNA and the Outcome document of the OWG we call the President of General Assembly and the Secretary General to commit themselves to providing the Goal on Peaceful Society and Good Governance in the Post-2015 Development agenda.
71	8/22/2014 8:18:04	International Federation of Medical Students' Association (IFMSA)	Kelly Thompson	USA	USA	Female	29	Research was conducted by the International Federation of Medical Student’s Associations in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health YWCA, Youth Coalition for SRHR, Education as a Vaccine and Y-PEER to identify what are youth priorities for the post-2015 process and how well the formal process is reflecting those priorities. Youth have outlined their policy priorities for Post 2015, but only a select few of these priorities are being heard. Whilst it was expected that no single output would incorporate every single youth priority it was disappointing that the best of the processes analysed only incorporated 62.5% of the youth focus areas. The Post 2015 development agenda should include… •ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE: • fulfilment of sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents & YP • include youth in the designing and implementation of health programs and policies • ensure full access to health care to LGBTQI, refugees, migrants, people with disabilities •Increased investment in health promotion and prevention programs for adolescent and youth •Address the social, environmental and political determinants on the health of young people •Recognize road traffic crashes as a leading cause of death among adolescents and take action in improving road safety and implementing policies aimed at preventing injuries and deaths •Address the rates of interpersonal violence in adolescents •Recognizing increased incidence of HIV among adolescents and youth, ensure universal access to testing and treatment for HIV + improve access to and quality of services •Ensure early detection and treatment of mental health issues among adolescents.
72	8/22/2014 8:22:10	Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage	Heather Hamilton	American	England	F	41	• Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework: it is a concrete and measurable target that will contribute significantly to the achievement of gender equality while also accelerating efforts to achieve a safe, healthy and prosperous future for all. • The call to action in the current target in the Open Working Group (OWG) document on child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough, as it includes the practice only as an example of a harmful practice, and does not specifically call on states to take action to combat child marriage. • There is broad support in civil society for a stronger target addressing child, early and forced marriage. In July, 148 Girls Not Brides member organisations from 45 countries sent a letter to the co-chairs of the OWG, urging them to maintain a strong, separate and distinct target on child, early and forced marriage. • Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight MDGs. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. • We caution that child, early and forced marriage should not be viewed exclusively as violence against women, as it is a broader development issue. Viewing the practice solely as violence against women would mask its complex nature and the comprehensive strategies required to address it. While it is indeed a form of violence, it is also a development and rights challenge that robs 15 million girls a year of their future and holds them and their countries back. • It is essential to retain the use of the full term – child, early and forced marriage – which has been defined by the Human Rights Council. This is the most complete formulation and best describes the various forms of marriage that need to be addressed. • Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of over 400 organisations in 60 countries, encourages the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that efforts to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritised if we are to achieve the next set of development goals.
73	8/22/2014 8:40:08	Girls Empowerment Network	Faith Phiri	Malawi	Malawi	female	36	Child marriage is a critical part of the post-2015 development agenda because six of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) are directly affected by child marriage especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that about 50% of girls in Malawi marry before the age of 18 and the country is currently ranked in the top 10 with the highest rates of child marriage in the world. In Malawi, girls as young as 10 years old are at risk of being forced into early marriages hence being exposed to numerous short and long-term effects that negatively impact their education prospects, physical, psychological and emotional well-being. National indicators on maternal health, education, food security, poverty eradication and gender equality are all negatively correlated with high child marriage rates at the grassroots. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address this harmful practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
74	8/22/2014 8:51:15	Terre des Hommes Netherlands	Aysel Sabahoglu	Dutch	Netherlands	f	41	Violence against girls and young women still takes place on a worldwide scale. Figures, published by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, state that more than 64 million girls worldwide are child brides. Child marriages, resulting in complications in pregnancy and childbirth, hiv/aids infections and domestic violence, pose life threatening risks for girls and young women. Terre des Hommes promotes education for girls and the empowerment of young women. Ending violence against girls and stopping the exploitation of girls must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. (Source: http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures#sthash.O3czfvr1.dpuf)
75	8/22/2014 9:32:49	Canadian Federation of Agriculture	Drew Black	Canadian	Canada	Male	30	The Open Working Group has achieved much and hopefully this is a model that the UN can continue to build upon and improve within other processes. Food security and sustainable agriculture will be indispensable for the realization of other SDG goals and to further development in the post-2015 agenda. There are many close links between sustainable development and agriculture that exist within all states and through global linkages. In all countries, farmers are a responsible community of agro-preneurs who work with other stakeholders from around the globe in order to foster food system stability; respect the environment; acknowledge the rights of all farmers to be entrepreneurs and to increase incomes while respecting the farming community’s diversity. Within a growing world population, the challenges of increasing food production, reducing food waste, improving distribution and market access and all doing so in a sustainable manner is one that is daunting but which the world's farmers will endeavour to meet. It is therefore our hope that the UNPGA's stock-taking event will ensure that appropriate recognition and space be given to the role that the world's farmers have played within the SDG process to date and to the commitments and challenges farmers will face in meeting the SDGs and achieving sustainable development.
76	8/22/2014 10:15:25	Management Sciences for Health	Belkis Giorgis	USA	USA	female	n/a	The post 2015 development framework must address child marriage because it is about the dignity, health, social welfare and the rights of women and girls. Child marriage is part of the lifelong journey of oppression and subordination that women travel and must be stopped to break the cycle. Child marriage prevents girls from reaching their potential and hence their contribution to national development in at all levels and in all sectors is undermined. Child marriage results in children having children with consequences to their health and wellbeing. In countries like Ethiopia and Nigeria where child marriage is common the tragic consequences of fistulae is just one of the consequences. The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is neither strong enough nor comprehensive enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. It is a major barrier to social and economic development in the world. Moreover child marriage has negative effects not only for this generation but the next generation of women. A firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be instigated and prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
77	8/22/2014 10:34:45	Stakeholder Group on Ageing	Anders Hylander	Danish	United Kingdom	male	31	Subject ii: The final outcome document recently approved by acclamation of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals left us encouraged that ageing issues have not altogether been ignored, as was the case with the Millennium Development Goals. We note, in particular, that a number of targets include references to “older persons” (targets 2.2, 11.2 and 11.7) and “all ages” (target 1.2, goal 3, target 10. 2 and target 17.18). There are also a number of references to “for all”, “all” and “life-long” which, while weaker in specificity, imply the inclusion of older persons. However, there is still no guarantee that the language used in the OWG outcome document will remain in the final negotiated framework. Indeed, there are a number of concerns of older persons which have not been taken into account by the OWG. These include: • The phrase “all people of all ages and abilities” was omitted in the final agreed Introduction. Such a phrase reaffirms the basic principle of leaving no one behind. • There should be a reference in paragraph 6 to the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 57/167 of 18 December 2002, which outlines how ageing issues should be addressed, reinforcing the understanding that older persons must be full participants in the development process and also share in its benefits. • On target 3.4 with respect to non-communicable diseases (NCDs): the use of the word “premature” is inaccurate. NCDs disproportionately affect people in older age everywhere. By using the term “premature mortality”, it excludes those aged over 70 thereby embedding discrimination into the target. A more appropriate formulation would be “avoidable/preventable mortality”. Furthermore, a reference to “care and support” would have ensured the continuum of care necessary to meet the holistic health needs of people of all ages. • On Goal 5 on gender equality: it is essential that “older women” are not forgotten since many of the growing population of older women experience discrimination both because of their gender as well as their age. “Women of all ages” must be explicitly recognized.
78	8/22/2014 10:35:49	Stakeholder Group on Ageing	Anders Hylander	Danish	United Kingdom	male	31	General comments: • The SDGs must reflect the reality of the world as we find it; respond to the fact that the world is ageing; and ensure opportunities for increased longevity. • The framework must be grounded in human rights principles including universality, non-discrimination, equality, participation, empowerment and accountability. • The SDGs must be truly universal; a step towards a society of all ages for all ages. • Alongside the inclusion of universal goals and targets, we must find the specificity that articulates how goals and targets will be delivered for all people, including in older age. • The success of the framework to ‘leave no one behind’ will be based on how goals and targets are monitored. Indicators must require collection of data for all people of all ages, with data disaggregated by sex and age.
79	8/22/2014 11:23:51	Save the Children	Helen Morton	British	United Kingdom	Female	30	Save the Children sees the following messages, as shaped through the PGA programme, as central to ensuring that the final framework delivers for the worlds poorest people: 1: Embed equity at the core of the Post 2015 Framework Save the Children believes that for the Post 2015 Framework to realize its transformative potential it must pursue an equitable approach to achieving goals and targets, putting the needs of the poorest and most marginalized first. Member States should: • Commit to the criterion that no target will be considered met unless it is met for all age, income, gender, ethnic, geographical and disability groups • Invest with urgency in improving the disaggregation, quality, coverage of data - to measure what we value, not value what we measure • Set interim national ‘stepping stone’ equity targets to ensure that disadvantaged groups are on track to achieve 2030 targets and that gaps between groups are closing 2: Prioritize zero goals and targets to eradicate critical dimensions of extreme poverty within a generation • Finishing the job of the MDGs by ‘getting to zero’ on key human development outcomes must be the centerpiece of the Post 2015 Framework. Member States should: • Introduce zero goals and targets that eradicate preventable newborn, under-five and maternal mortality; end hunger and achieve food and nutrition security for all; ensure quality education; secure water, sanitation and modern energy for all; and end violence against children. • Eradicate extreme income poverty at $2.00 a day by 2030, rather than $1.25. This would attest to the transformative ability of the SDGs, focusing attention on an additional 1.2 billion of the world’s poorest people. 3: Address the gaps of the Millennium Development Goals • The international community has the opportunity – and responsibility – to ensure that the Post 2015 Framework addresses critical development gaps. Member States should ensure that the future development framework includes: • A goal on open, inclusive and accountable governance – recognizing the centrality of rule of law, access to justice and effective institutions to delivering our shared vision for 2030 • Greater focus on accountability and openness, and protecting space for civil society and citizen, including children’s, engagement • A continued emphasis on the focus on ending abuse, exploitation and neglect of childre
80	8/22/2014 12:18:35	Saferworld	Anna Moller-Loswick	Swedish	United Kingdom	Female	27	We strongly suggest that peace remains a priority issue and that the targets under such goal do not only address the incidence of violence but also address the focus on the drivers of conflict (for example on by promoting the rule of law, justice and political and civic decision making) and address global-level factors that drive conflict such as illicit finance. We suggest the following: -Consolidation and prioritisation of targets is necessary in order to achieve an actionable and communicable post-2015 framework. -Key transnational stress factors – including violence associated with flows of illicit drugs and the trade in conflict commodities – should be addressed in the targets. Illicit financial flows should be addressed individually given their priority and another one addressing the wider set of issues. A target on a reduction in illicit arms flows needs to also include irresponsible arms flows as defined by the ATT. These two targets could be: 1.“By 2030, reduce illicit financial flows, including money laundering, tax evasion, trade mispricing, transnational corruption and bribery by x%, and recover at least y% of illicit financial flows. 2. “By 2030, significantly reduce international stresses that drive conflict, including irresponsible trade in arms and conflict commodities, and the violent impact of drugs trafficking.” These two targets could be addressed under a goal on global partnership. -A target on building capacities to combat terrorism and crime risks promoting coercive approaches to security and should therefore be avoided. A target on security providers’ capacity should also be avoided as the post-2015 framework should focus on outcomes for people not on outputs of states. -A target on political and civic freedoms is essential and should “ensure that people from all social groups enjoy legal identity, freedoms of speech, association, peaceful protest, civic engagement and access to information.” -A target that promotes societies’ ability to manage conflict peacefully and deepen social cohesion is necessary to promote peace and could be: “tensions, grievances and disputes within society are being resolved peacefully, inclusively and constructively.” -A target that promotes safety for people and confidence for security provides is needed, for example: “By 2030, people from all social groups feel safe and have confidence in security provision.”
81	8/22/2014 14:46:12	United Nations Association of Venezuela	Erly Muñoz	Venezuelan	Venezuela	Female	28	UNA-Venezuela Submission Peace, human security and conflict prevention must be the pillars not only to achieve sustainable development but to accelerate the process. Countries in conflict understand the need from all the sectors to invest in peace and human security in order to develop societies, economies and good governance. At the same time, capable, transparent, independent and accountable institutions will guarantee the implementation of equal justice for all, safe streets, human rights and consensus between civil society and political sectors. The strengthening of institutions will reduce the cost of violence and political instability, which affects everyone without distinction of color, race, nationality, sexual and political orientation or religion; and reducing the cost of violence means that there are more resources available to investment in development. This way, all countries must ally to provide knowledge, recommendations and create awareness on the important role that human security plays under sustainable development. We, as civil society, deserve to live free from violence, free from want and free from fear in order to promote and be part of human development. Coming from a country that has reported advances in education, health, nutrition and poverty reduction in the past, it has been demonstrated that these efforts are being undermined in the present - with a risk of disappearance in the future - due to an increase in the levels of crime, violence, insecurity and political conflict. Furthermore, we advocate for the integration of youth as leaders for peace and promoters of change in developing countries. Youth are not victims anymore, but the most powerful weapon against poverty. They are key generators of employment and income, for this reason, they must be included in decision-making processes as well as be empowered to make the right decisions and build the foundations of democratic and peaceful societies. We call for the Secretary General, the President of the General Assembly and the international cooperation amongst all member states - especially of those living in conflict - to introduce a standalone goal for peace, human security with respect for Human Rights, conflict prevention and good governance into the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
82	8/22/2014 15:53:55	Civil society working group on AIDS and post-2015	Marielle Hart	Dutch	USA	Female	40	The CSWG on AIDS and post-2015 supports the targets on HIV and Universal Health Coverage, but it is imperative to include groups most affected by HIV in the targets. Language about “reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized first” is needed, because otherwise, key populations will likely be excluded, even as they are the key to ending the HIV pandemic. Key populations must be included in the post-2015 outcome document, or HIV will resurge. Ending AIDS requires promoting strategic investment in HIV programming with key populations. Governments and donors must base their programming and funding allocation on epidemiological data, evidence of what is most effective, and human rights. Considering this, the SDGs must ensure inclusion of SMART indicators that measure HIV targets, shape the HIV response, and reflect the needs of civil society and key populations. Wherever possible, data should be disaggregated according to each population group most affected by HIV. Governments must ensure the realization of full human rights of people of all ages, including people living with HIV, women, sex workers, transgender people, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, migrants, youth, prisoners and people with disabilities, by facilitating and promoting their meaningful participation in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support programming. It is imperative to include sexual and reproductive health and rights, in 3.1, 3.8 and 5.6. SRHR are key to reducing maternal mortality, and as more than half of PLWHIV are women, and women’s vulnerability is linked to their access to SRHR. We strongly support the inclusion of 3b, to support research and ensure access to essential medicines and vaccines to all, including by TRIPS flexibilities, to ensure that the needs of populations are prioritized ahead of commercial interests. The CSWG welcomes the target addressing violence against women, but opposes the inclusion in 5.2 of references to “trafficking and sexual exploitation” because these efforts typically target sex workers and lead to their arrest, and inhibits HIV programming with sex workers. Similar language is included in Target 16.2 “end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children.” We oppose the word trafficking as anti-trafficking initiatives are used to defend actions against key populations including people who use drugs, MSM and sex workers.
83	8/22/2014 16:28:14	Plan International	Zara Rapoport	American	USA	Female	33	Plan International welcomes the inclusion of the promotion of equality, but wishes to reiterate that both equality of opportunity and equality of outcome must underpin the post-2015 framework. The OWG should reflect the core values of the Millennium Declaration and the human rights principles of universality, non-discrimination, indivisibility, accountability and participation. In particular, Plan would like to see the following addressed in the framework •Clearly ground the post-2015 framework in existing human rights principles and standards, and link the framework to existing human rights accountability mechanisms; It is essential to link the principles of development and human rights, as you cannot truly achieve one without the other. •Ensure that both equality of opportunity and outcome underpin the framework; •Explicitly reflect the rights and needs of adolescent girls in the framework; •Empower youth, particularly girls to participate in their own development; This should consist of including girls and youth in the references to participation at all levels •Empower children and young people to hold duty bearers to account for the implementation post-2015 framework. •In the gender goal, it is critical to stress the need for the full realisation of women’s and girls’ human rights. This is essential to achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment •In order to facilitate development, all forms of violence against boys and girls, in all settings, including in and around schools, in the home, and during emergencies, must be eliminated. • The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight Millennium Development Goals. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. •In order to achieve many of the proposed goals and targets, including the ones referenced here, a free legal identity, including free birth registration is crucial. Any cost associated with this can be prohibitive to the most marginalized.
84	8/22/2014 16:42:39	Equality Now	Antonia Kirkland	US/UK	US	Female	41	Equality Now welcomes the opportunity to provide written input. All the post-2015 goals should reflect international human rights standards and include reference to the rule of law. For example, the current OWG goal 5 to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” should include specific reference to “human rights”. Freedom from discrimination and violence, end elimination of discriminatory laws and practices, must remain targets, of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. Comprehensive equality before the law and access to justice are critical components of any framework for ending violence against women and girls, particularly adolescent girls. An essential component of these targets would be structural indicators such as: *Whether the legal framework reaches minimum standards with respect to gender equality, including whether customary laws conflict with CEDAW and other instruments, by for example: -Decrease in the number of sex-discriminatory laws still in legal codes and decrease in the enforcement of any such discriminatory provisions -Specific provisions in the Constitution and laws which provide for gender equality -Gender-based discrimination outlawed -Increase in the number of specific laws addressing domestic violence, marital rape and sexual assault, sexual harassment, commercial sexual exploitation etc. Ending child marriage, female genital mutilation and other harmful practices, currently OWG target 5.3, must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. Governments around the world should commit to: -instituting a minimum age of marriage law at 18 if none exists -amending laws with lower ages of marriage to bring them to 18 -raising awareness of and enforcing good minimum age of marriage laws -amending laws exempting punishment for rape, including by disallowing judicial consent to marriage in sexual violence cases -amending laws which allow difference in marriage age between men and women -instituting laws that criminalise all forms female genital mutilation, including taking girls outside their country for purposes of FGM -providing comprehensive services for women and girls who have undergone FGM -providing training on a comprehensive approach for the prevention of FGM -prohibiting other harmful practices -requiring and enforcing birth and marriage registration laws and policies
85	8/22/2014 18:19:22	Beyond2015	Naiara Chaves	Brazilian	United States	Female	36	Beyond 2015 has actively engaged on the Post-2015 debates promoted by the PGA during the UNGA 68 and recognizes the openness and participatory approach of the PGA events. We expect continued openness and transparency in the forthcoming negotiations and discussions around the Post-2015 agenda. The new framework must aim higher by building on key values of participation, human rights and environmental sustainability, and by extending the content of goals on climate change, equality and peaceful and inclusive societies; it must move forward by addressing the means of implementation for the goals, strengthening the interlinkages between goals, and agreeing an extensive and robust accountability mechanism. The OWG outcome document is a good starting point for the intergovernmental negotiations on the Post-2015 development agenda. Nevertheless, the OWG's proposals must represent the floor, not the ceiling of the ambitions for a truly transformative and people-centered framework. The goal on reducing inequalities is one of the most transformative goals proposed by the OWG as it commits to address both economic inequalities and forms of discrimination that affect poor and marginalised. Global resource constraints and planetary boundaries must be clearly acknowledged. The Post-2015 framework cannot afford an approach that promotes growth at all costs without considering human rights and environmental implications. We fully support the maintenance of Climate Change in the SDGs and recommend reinserting a target on holding the increase in global average temperature below 1.5°C rise. We strongly welcome the retention of a goal on peaceful and inclusive societies, and the reference to access to justice and governance. The current goal does not go far enough to guarantee political and civil freedoms or ensure the protection of human rights. The Post-2015 framework must be have the strongest, most robust and comprehensive accountability framework possible, incorporating the commitment to monitor and report on progress and share learning and knowledge. This will help build a global partnership towards achievement of the SDGs that makes all actors – governments, civil society and private sector – accountable. Only by welcoming a diversity of voices can a legitimate and people-centred Post-2015 framework be designed. Full access and the meaningful participation of all groups will be essential to the transparency and integrity of the negotiations.
86	8/22/2014 22:55:53	Center for Reproductive Rights	Center for Reproductive Rights	International	International	N/A	N/A	Human rights must be at the core of development, as development programs often provide the services that help states meet their human right obligations. In particular, in addition to ensuring that human rights standards are reflected in goals, targets, and indicators related to substantive issues, it is essential that the Post-2015 Agenda provide human rights-based mechanisms to ensure accountability. Human rights-based accountability is multifaceted. It requires public participation in the design and implementation of programs to address state obligations and commitments, that states collect data that is disaggregated and publicly accessible, and that states use that data to consistently report to accessible and effective monitoring mechanisms. It also requires that individuals have access to effective and meaningful remedies at the national, regional, and international level when there are violations of individuals’ rights. As the work the Human Rights Council, the UN treaty monitoring bodies, and the UN special procedures shows, this regular and transparent monitoring can dramatically increase states’ compliance with their international obligations and commitments. The outcome document of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals does not yet provide an adequate framework for accountability in the Post-2015 Agenda. Although previous drafts of the outcome document contained a target that outlined an international accountability mechanism for the Post-2015 Agenda under Goal 17, this target was stripped from the final text. Targets under Goal 16 on access to justice and public participation may contribute to accountability, but Goal 16 was stripped of a target that would have mandated aligning national legal frameworks with human rights obligations. In order for the Post-2015 Agenda to be effective, states must be held accountable to their development commitments through transparent, periodic, and compulsory monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. For instance, at the international level, the High-Level Political Forum could take on a periodic review like the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, in which states evaluate each other on human rights obligations. In any review mechanism, civil society organizations should be given a formal role in reporting and support for participating, and the work of other UN monitoring bodies, including human rights monitoring bodies, should also be consulted and included.
87	8/23/2014 0:04:11	Grandmother Project - Change through Culture	Judi Aubel	American	Italy-Senegal	Female	65	Grandmother Project’s (GMP) approach addressing child marriage contributes to bringing about sustainable change in community norms related to this and other harmful practices that limit girls’ development and education. GMP’s Change through Culture approach promotes community-driven change by involving key community actors in a process of consensus building on the need to change this and other prevailing practices related to girls’ development. Strengthening communication between generations and building on positive cultural values are key facets of this approach that has had very positive results in communities where it was used. GMP has found that when natural community leaders (social/religious leaders, and especially senior women/ grandmothers) are not included from the start in efforts to bring about change in traditions affecting girls, that positive change will be limited. From our experience, a strong community-school relationship is also important if communities are to change traditional, harmful beliefs and practices. Schools often represent non-traditional beliefs from which communities and families believe they need to protect girls. This divide can often strengthen a community's support for child marriage and rejection of girl's education. In the family context of collective decision-making and in the community context of influential women within social networks of older women, there are these various family and community actors who influence the marriage decisions. Use of the Change through Culture approach is exemplified in the “Girls’ Holistic Development” project, in the Velingara area of southern Senegal. This project not only addresses early marriage, but also teen pregnancy, female genital mutilation and strengthening positive cultural values that are beneficial to girls in their respective cultures. Positive results connected to this project are: increased “ideal age for marriage of girls” from 15.6 to 17.3 years; significant decrease in teenage pregnancies; significant changes in attitudes towards female genital mutilation; strengthened relationships and communication between adolescents (girls and boys) with parents and grand parents; increased involvement of parents and grandparents in children’s education; increased sense of cultural identity on the part of children and adolescents, and in communities in general; and strengthened social cohesion within communities. To learn more, please visit: www.grandmotherproject.org
88	8/23/2014 3:15:35	MAMTA-Health Institute for Mother and Child	Dr. Sunil Mehra	Indian	India	Male	59	Child Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM), no doubt has deep social moorings and so has failed the affected nations to prioritize the issue in their development agenda. But it is much more complex than a tradition. Political will keeps vacillating and any stringent actions proposed in high prevalence areas (where social converts are few and far to elicit change) are perceived as potential trigger to social unrest. On the other hand, poor performances on MDGs in the affected areas convey loud and clear the strong link between CEFM and the development goals and their indicators (at least six of MDGs). The targets on education, poverty reduction need to fill in the loopholes that give way to CEFM. The school enrollment alone cannot help stop such practice if its quality and potential to shape future of subjects is awfully lacking. Besides, countries are yet to raise age bar for minimum years of compulsory schooling to match the legal age at marriage. The ‘gender sensitization’ for vulnerable minds and community gatekeepers goes missing in most of the educational efforts. Moreover, friendly and equitable access to information and services to young and unmarried for SRH is even difficult in such cultural context. Systems are also deficient on the opportunities for vocational training or livelihood options compared to the escalating needs. In absence, of a meaningful engagement for young girls and boys in cultures where marriage is an important social event in any person’s life, CEFM is inevitable. The rising aspirations need to be matched realistically else the social evil like dowry and other forms of gender based violence will continue to plague the social fabric of the affected countries. In India, eight states have prevalence of child marriage above the national average (42.5%). Unfortunately these are the states that also lag behind on some crucial indicators of maternal and child health with poor quality of education and high numbers of school dropouts. India’s recognition of child marriage as a development challenge is reflected in the Twelfth Five Year Plan, National Strategy and Draft Plan of Action on Prevention of Child Marriage, 2013 and in the National Adolescent Health Strategy and Programme, 2014. However, their effective implementation needs constant prioritization. To break this cycle of inter-generational impact, the menace of CEFM will have to stop within this generation itself. A ‘standalone target on CEFM’ is the need of the hour.
89	8/23/2014 3:24:40	CELIAF	Mme Djikoloum jokebed	Tchadienne	THAD	Féminin	54 ans	Le mariage des enfants ou mariage précoce et forcé est un grand problème dans notre pays. Il représente 72% . Il affecte plus un bon nombre des adolescentes: une tchadienne sur trois est mariée avant quinze ans et près de la moitié des jeunes femmes de 15 à 19 ans sont déjà mariées. Cela est un grand danger si on ne se penche sérieusement sur ce fléau qui gangrène non seulement l'épanouissement de la jeune fille, mais compromet son avenir , son potentiel.Il y' a les complications obstétricales à l'accouchement entrainant la morbidité maternelle, les lésions, la fistule,; le dysfonctionnement sexuel, la mortalité maternelle, la morbidité et mortalité infantile. La jeune fille ne peut continuer ses études loin.Et encore plus les jeunes filles sont marginalisées. Elles sont utilisées comme des objets à revenus pour les parents pauvres.Pour cela il est souhaitable de préciser clairement la lutte contre le mariage des enfants en prenant en compte les résolutions fermes et soutenues proposées par les membres de Filles pas Épouses et des recommandations faites à l'égard de chaque pays pour soutenir la lutte contre le mariage des enfants.Les organisations de la société civile de mon pays se mobilisent pour la lutte contre le mariage précoce et forcé à travers diverses activités de sensibilisation , de plaidoyer, de mobilisation sociale et autres.La CELIAF étant un Réseau des Organisations Féminines ne cesse de tirer la sonnette d'alarme. Elle soutient les efforts fournis par le Secrétariat de Filles pas Épouses pour la cause de la jeune fille, avenir d 'un monde radieux sans discrimination, pour son bien être et son autonomisation.
90	8/23/2014 3:47:58	MAMTA-Health Institute for Mother and Child	Priyanka Sreenath	Indian	India	Female	40	Child marriage is a multifaceted issue and hence demands multidimensional intervention efforts for its elimination. The target under proposed SDG 5 and its target 5.3 needs to be reconsidered. Child marriage is more than just a traditional practice and in its cause and effects is strongly linked to several development goals and indicators (like 6 of eight MDGs). For its inter-generational impact on health, economy and social status of women, it has to be ended within the generation. Hence, the targets under other SDGs especially gender equality, education, poverty reduction and health needs to complement each other to address CEFM comprehensively.
91	8/25/2014 0:47:17	Girls Not Brides Bangladesh Alliance	Sheepa Hafiza	Bangladeshi	Bangladesh	Female	58	Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) is not only a significant violation of the rights of 14 million girls around the world each year, but also a key barrier in achieving 6 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals. Bangladesh is a country having the highest rate of child marriage in the south Asia (65%) and holding the fourth position in the world. One-third of women aged 20-24 in Bangladesh are married by the age of 15 and 64 percent of women in the 20-24 age groups married before 18 years of age. Around 87% married women experience violence by husbands and 56% women got married under the age of 18 (BBS Report on VAW 2011). The devastating consequences of child marriage are diversified. Girls who marry as children are susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and fistula and are more likely to experience domestic violence. The consequences includes their dropping out of education consequently lacking skill, lower social status and restricted mobility, limiting freedom and empowerment. Crosscutting these realities child marriage creates a vicious cycle of disempowerment for girls as well as for women that perpetuates an unequal and unjust society. As Bangladesh is a member of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we, the Girls Not Brides Bangladesh Alliance (a nation- wide platform to end child marriage) are requesting the UN President of the General Assembly's Stock-taking on the Post-2015 Development Agenda to include a separate and distinct target on CEFM with specific indicators. We appreciate the final report of the OWG on the proposed SDGs released in July 2014 that contains a target on child marriage under Goal 5. However, we find the call to action in the current target addressing Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) is not strong enough. CEFM has a devastating impact not only on the lives and rights of girls and women, but has undermined achievement of six of the eight MDGs. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS and VAW, lowering maternal and infant mortality, achieving education for all and combating inequality, will not be achieved. We strongly recommend the PGA’s Stock-taking to comprehensively and strategically address CEFM in the post-2015 development framework that contains a separate and distinct target on CEFM with specific indicators.
92	8/25/2014 3:20:51	Terre des Hommes	Aysel Sabahoglu	Dutch	The Netherlands	f	41	Violence against girls and young women still takes place on a worldwide scale. Figures, published by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, state that more than 64 million girls worldwide are child brides. Child marriages, resulting in complications in pregnancy and childbirth, hiv/aids infections and domestic violence, pose life threatening risks for girls and young women. Terre des Hommes promotes education for girls and the empowerment of young women. Ending violence against girls and stopping the exploitation of girls must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. (Source: http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures#sthash.O3czfvr1.dpuf)
93	8/25/2014 8:43:45	Handicapped Development (HD) Foundation, Manipur	Dr. Sapam Jasowanta Singh	Indian	India	Male	39	Women, Children and older persons with disabilities are the most vulnerable group of people. 1. Protecting and promoting them in the mainstream life with dignity. 2. Rehabilitation and empowerment 3. To developed livelihood and support schemes.
94	8/25/2014 13:45:43	World Animal Net	Akisha Townsend	US	United States	Female	32	WAN suggests an addition to the preamble of the proposed SDGs to the following effect: “We reaffirm the need for the approach to sustainable development to be holistic and integrated, humane and caring, and in harmony with nature.” WAN also recommends the following: Goal 2 This goal should be further expanded to ensure that agricultural practices are not only sustainable, but humane, environmentally friendly, and beneficial to small-scale farmers, as opposed to large industrial systems. As mentioned in the most recent Major Group Position Paper, emphasis needs to be placed on the regulation of global factory farming, the prevalence of which significantly threatens animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and human health and well-being. Goal 12 Reducing food waste, reporting on corporate social and environmental responsibility, education and awareness, and animal welfare are not mutually exclusive. WAN recommends a reduction in meat based diets and increased focus on plant-based nutrition as a key indicator (in particular in relation to ‘developed’ countries and others with excessive meat consumption and associated health and environmental problems). This is also in line with a recent UNEP report. Goal 14 WAN strongly suggests that this goal incorporate improved knowledge dissemination of health and welfare in aquaculture systems. Such inclusion would be in line with the OIE international animal welfare standards, and would also help prevent significant losses (and suffering/death) of farmed fish as a result of the lack of targeted training and expertise which, in turn, wastes development funding and causes individual and community hardship and loss. Goal 15 WAN supports this goal. However, 15.8 could be more carefully worded. As poaching refers to illegally catching/killing of animals, we suggest that “and” be removed after poaching, and that the indicator reads as follows: “End all poaching, the trafficking of endangered species, and the demand and supply of illegal wildlife products.” Goal 16 WAN supports this goal. We would welcome the implantation of humane education programs, a proven method of developing a culture of non-violence, as an indicator. Goal 9 As industrial animal agriculture has well documented adverse impacts on poverty alleviation, human and animal health, and environmental degradation and resource use; WAN advises that this goal makes it clear that any reference to food systems are addressed under Goal 1.
95	8/25/2014 14:15:10	DIN (Development Institutions' Network)	Mujahid Bhutto	Pakistani	Pakistan	Male	48	I am happy to become part of this great Society.
96	8/25/2014 19:48:13	YouAct: European Youth Network on Sexual and reproductive Rights	Network Coordinator	Irish	Ireland	F	29	We welcome the work of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, however, we feel that the Post-2015 must raise the bar on ensuring human rights are at the heart of the framework. Civil society has highlighted the need for a truly transformative agenda that goes beyond agreements made 15 years ago, and is in step with human rights standards, which have developed and expanded over the past 15 years. We call for the recognition, at a policy level, of the rights and specific needs of adolescents. Adolescents are prioritized only once in the SDGs. This is unacceptable, as adolescents, particularly adolescent girls, endure violations of their human rights, which are often perpetrated within families and communities. Because of this, poor lifelong health is often rooted in adolescence, stemming from rights violations including FGM and early, child and forced marriage. We welcome the target 3.7 on ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health services, information and education. We note that sexual and reproductive health services and information must be included as part of the package, in target 3.8, of quality essential health services, medicines and vaccines for all. These services must be guaranteed to be free from violence, coercion and discrimination. We welcome the recognition in target 4.7 of the need to ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote human rights and gender equality. However, we feel that this cannot be achieved unless comprehensive sexuality education programs are made available to young people in and out of schools. We welcome goal 5 on gender equality, and its comprehensive set of targets. As women’s and girls’ human rights are prerequisites for achieving gender equality, this should be explicitly mentioned in the goal or its targets. In target 5.6 we call for the realization of sexual rights, as essential to addressing the social, economic, cultural and legal barriers that prevent women and girls from protecting their health, and realizing their rights to self determination and bodily autonomy. Finally, we call for recognition that human rights apply to all human beings, without distinction of any kind. Equality before the law is not a privilege predicated on gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, migration status, or any other status.
97	8/26/2014 5:51:26	United Nations Association of South Africa	Holly McGurk	South African	South Africa	Female	26	War, violence and high levels of crime affect over 1.5 billion people around the world--it destroys communities; disrupts social cohesion; imposes economic burdens on countries that can ill afford them; extinguishes any hope of eliminating poverty; and unravels years, even decades, of social and economic progress in a brief span of time. Development, peace, stability and security are intrinsically interlinked. This is demonstrated by the fact that those in conflict or emerging from conflict significantly lag behind in more Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); only 20% of fragile and conflict-affected countries have met the poverty target. For this reason UNASA welcomes the inclusion by the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG) of a proposed goal to "promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels," as well as the inclusion of suggested targets such as the reduction of levels of violence and death rates, an increase in participatory and representative decision-making and effective, accountable and transparent public institutions. The goals and targets that the OWG document proposes can still be improved on, as some important targets are excluded. For example, they do not mention increasing access to conflict resolution mechanisms to mediate and reconcile tensions, grievances and disputes within society. This is an important measure to give people and communities alternatives to violence, which could be further reinforced by education on a culture of non-violence and peace. A target on perceptions of safety, confidence and trust in the security forces and the police would also ensure that outcomes reflect the reality on the ground. Achieving goals that are purely quantitative will not have real impact unless a change in perceptions is felt at a grassroots level too. Comprehensive, measurable goals are required in order to achieve democratic, sustainable and inclusive societies that truly leave no-one behind. UNASA therefore calls for the Secretary General, the President of the General Assembly and Member States to introduce a standalone goal for peace, human security, conflict prevention and good governance into the Post-2015 Development Agenda, and to ensure that the targets are strong, measurable, and geared towards grassroots impact.
98	8/26/2014 9:42:54	Global Financial Integrity	Tom Cardamone	U.S.	U.S.	Male	--	Global Financial Integrity is keenly focused on current UN efforts to establish targets for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While we are pleased that the Open Working Group (OWG) has included a target to reduce illicit financial flows (IFFs) in its recent “Outcome Document” we believe the current language will be ineffective in reducing the volume of illicit flows. The OWG illicit flows target is coupled with other issues including reductions of arms sales and organized crime thereby making the target unwieldy, unmeasurable and, as a result, unachievable. While these other issues are important they dilute the focus on the corrosive impact IFFs have on developing country economies. Therefore, we call on relevant policy makers to urge the General Assembly to endorse an SDG target on IFFs as follows: “reduce illicit financial flows resulting from trade misinvoicing by 50%” This narrowly-defined target has considerable strengths which support sustainable development goals including: 1. Limiting the target to trade-related illicit flows will focus on the largest (80%) part of the IFF problem; 2. Progress toward the target can be measured using official government statistics provided to the IMF; 3. The target is achievable because it can be addressed though risk-based trade analysis and capacity building in developing country customs departments; 4. Progress toward the target will enhance domestic resource mobilization which will help countries reach SDG goals in health, human rights, and education; 5. In addition to tax revenue, a far larger amount of capital will remain in developing country economies; 6. The target is universal since it will complement transparency measures already underway at the OECD. In the international community there is growing support for curtailing IFFs. Indeed, the African Union has said it is "imperative to curtail" IFFs and the West African Development Bank has "pledge[d] full support" for GFI’s SDG target language. A focused target on illicit flows will be a "development enabler" since it will keep billions of dollars in developing country economies. Given the target’s potential to produce huge levels of revenue for development its acceptance by the General Assembly would have a transformational impact on future development efforts. We ask that this IFF-specific target be included in the Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals.
99	8/26/2014 11:25:01	Center for Reproductive Rights	Melissa Upreti	Nepali	United States	Female	44	25,000 children worldwide, most of whom are girls, are married every day. While many countries have laws that clearly prohibit and penalize child marriage, more often than not, these laws are not enforced.In fact, laws prohibiting child marriage often coexist with and are superseded in practice by religion-based laws that permit child marriage.More recently, U.N bodies have strengthened their call to governments to end child marriage for obvious reasons: the practice egregiously violates a broad range of women’s and girls’ human rights. Young girls aged 10-19 bear nearly a quarter of the burden of death and disability associated with early pregnancy and childbirth and children are forced to bear children while still children themselves. Yet, child marriage continues with impunity mainly because of the failure of national governments to fulfill their commitment to eliminate the practice and the absence of legal and political accountability. It is important to recognize the ways in which lack of government accountability specifically for the failure to prevent and punish child marriage has undermined the achievement of several Millennium Development Goals. In Nepal, where notable progress has been made towards the achievement of MDG 5.A on reduction of maternal mortality, the risk of maternal death among adolescent girls remains high due to child marriage.Further, Nepal has made the least progress with respect to MDG 3 on gender equality, in part because of its failure to eliminate child marriage. The U.N. must make ending child marriage a priority in the Post-2015 development framework by including it as a specific target. Clear recognition of the elimination of child marriage in the new agenda will ensure its prioritization and establish a clear basis for routine monitoring of progress towards its elimination, which will help ensure accountability. Further it will convey the important message that crimes against women and children in the name of marriage must not be tolerated.While ending child marriage is an important goal in itself, it is also critical for promoting gender equality and addressing gender-based discrimination.The President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General must set a framework that effectively tackles discrimination against women by expressing a clear commitment to achieving substantive equality for women in all spheres including marriage and promoting their sexual and reproductive autonomy as a matter of human rights.
100	8/27/2014 2:42:42	The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)	Sachini Perera	Sri Lankan	Malaysia	Female	28	Thank you for giving a platform for comments from civil society. The ongoing discussions on the post-2015 development agenda present an unprecedented opportunity for governments and the global development community to take stock, re-envision and create a world that is just, inclusive and sustainable for all. To achieve this, we call for ensuring universality of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), with particular focus on marginalised groups, including women, young people, sexual and gender minorities, people with disabilities, indigenous people, migrants, ethnic and religious minorities, people living in contexts of disaster, war and conflict, sex workers, people living with HIV and AIDS, and displaced persons. The post-2015 development framework should: 1. Be based intrinsically on human rights, and the goals and targets should reflect international human rights standards. 2. Ensure a comprehensive SRHR agenda, recognising that gender equality, equity and sexual and reproductive rights are central to sustainable development. 3. Ensure that specific, measurable, time-bound and attainable accountability mechanisms are in place and adhere to the highest standards of quality and transparency in order to monitor progress. 4. Fulfill the right to universal access to a comprehensive rights-based continuum of quality care at all stages and across locations and comprehensive, gender-sensitive and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services through all levels of healthcare and public provisioning, including a full range of contraceptive methods; safe abortion services; services to ensure maternal health and nutrition, diagnostic and treatment services for sexually transmitted infections including HIV, infertility and reproductive cancers; counselling; and rights-based, non-discriminatory, evidence-based, and youth-friendly comprehensive sexuality education. 5. Address the impact of religious extremism on the health and rights of women, young people, sexual and gender minorities and other vulnerable groups, including the removal of legal and policy barriers based on political and cultural conservatism. 6. Address increased vulnerabilities of women, young people and other marginalised groups due to migration, climate change, disasters, conflict and displacement, as well as poverty and food and nutrition insecurity, and call states to adopt concrete measures to mitigate their impacts, including on sexual and reproductive rights.
101	8/27/2014 20:34:16	Royal Australasian College of Surgeons	David Watters	Australian	Australia	Male	62	It is important in articulating a sustainable development goal encompassing "universal health and wellbeing", that conditions or targets that have previously been overlooked during the era of MDG's are addressed. The populations of the poorest nations or regions of the world continue to have limited access to emergency and essential surgical care with the result that they will continue to suffer from premature death, and unnecessary disability or deformity, much of which is preventable. The management of injuries, complications of childbirth, and up to 30% of the burden of NCD's requires surgical care which includes not only procedures but the decision when and when not to perform them. The evidence suggests surgical care can be provided cost-effectively and so a statement on surgery and anaesthesia within the SDG's is achievable. Population indicators of access and safety to surgical care need to be developed. Surgical care deserves a special mention, and failure to do so will result in less impetus to address the lack of access to emergency and essential surgical care in low and middle income countries. Lack of access to surgery and anaesthesia when needed will negatively impact on the health and well being of the poorest nations of the world. This will in turn reduce economic activity and limit their capacity to develop. Recommendation: Surgery must be included in para 2 SDG 3: “access to adequate and affordable medicines, surgery [or surgical care],technologies, and services as part of achieving universal health coverage (UHC).” (Surgery is not a medicine, technology or service) “Surgery is an indivisible, indispensible part of healthcare,” (Jim Kim, World Bank). It’s necessary for injuries, childbirth, cancers, and many communicable and non-communicable diseases, and gaps in outcomes cannot be closed without surgery. Everyone should have access to safe surgery and anaesthesia when needed. The SDGs should not lag behind Lancet Commission in Global Surgery and 2015 WHA resolution on strengthening emergency and essential surgical care.
102	8/28/2014 18:29:25	Landesa	Melany Grout	USA	USA	Female	34	Advancing women’s land rights is an essential foundation for eradicating poverty, achieving food security and sustainable agriculture, empowering women and ensuring gender equality, as has been increasingly recognized by the international community. But strengthening women’s land rights requires an overall increase in land tenure security for both women and men. Thus, secure land tenure for women and men must be included in any meaningful development agenda. For the benefits of strengthening land rights to emerge, achieving equal “access” alone is not sufficient. Women, for example, typically have access to land as agricultural laborers but no control over the land or the income from that land even within their own families. Improving the lives of women will therefore require more than equal “access.” Without secure tenure over that land – an established relationship to the land that is well-defined by formal or customary law, socially accepted, and enforceable -- women lack security and confidence in their ability to continue to use and reap the gains from working the land if circumstances change. This makes them vulnerable and limits their planning and investment horizons with dire consequences for them, their families and their communities. Focusing only on “ownership” of land, on the other hand, limits the universality of the target and misses important levers to reduce poverty by failing to capture a range of tenure arrangements that vary among and within nations, and can be individual or community-based. These include rights to access, use, control, rent, or mortgage, among a number of others. Focusing on "ownership" also limits the effectiveness of the target because ownership is not a politically feasible option in many nations. Several countries, such as China and Ethiopia, do not allow for individual, private ownership of land, opting instead for primarily state-ownership with long-term occupation and use rights granted to individuals, and are therefore unwilling to agree to a target that would require a significant overhaul of their existing legal frameworks on land. "Secure land tenure" is a politically feasible option that includes the various land tenure arrangements that must be protected to enable the progress desired; it is inclusive, flexible language that captures the widest range of land rights and can be applied in each country according to the legal and social context.
103	8/28/2014 20:51:51	IAMMA	KBN RAYANA	Inaian	USA	Male	55	suggest the countries to add the climate change smartness or call it as smart to climate change. Tap right away the rainwater . this is be cause it is essential to tap the water from the rain and make sure no wastage the water and run off the water which will stop soil erosion and also stops sea levels. it is an alterbate sources of fracturing the climate change to utilze the human tendency and solution for encountered water problem, and save water. This relieves to sanitation sine the water is plenty it go for modern sanitation and food cultivation and even stop starvation and or poverty erradication. food security with in framed rules of development of small farmer and sustainable economy with green economy. These three main points are lacking in the on and after rio program. This isnot only solution but also a long range plan. in this regard if any more infornation needed do call me at given e.mail address.... also extend me an invitation to enable to attend this meeting since donot have ECOsec level approval or badge. However we recognized under sustainable management Therefore to access this meeting I need an invitation ketter. expedit the same.
104	8/29/2014 7:19:41	FEDERACION DE PLANIFICACION FAMILIAR ESTATAL	FILOMENA RUGGIERO	ITALIAN	España	FEMALE	48	Gender equality and the human rights of women and girls Our asks: • Building on the UN Open Working Group (OWG) outcome document the EU position on Post-2015 should include a stand alone goal on gender equality, empowerment of women and girls and the realization of the human rights of women and girls. Furthermore, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls should be mainstreamed as a cross-cutting theme throughout all other goals, as appropriate. • As in the OWG outcome document, the EU in its Post-2015 position should include targets on ending violence against women and girls and the elimination of all harmful practice such as early and forced marriage and FGM. • The EU Post-2015 position should include a target on ensuring the respect, promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. This should build on the OWG outcome document (target 5.6), but without any reference to the ICPD PoA and Beijing PfA, as they are already mentioned in the chapeau. Using qualifiers in a target with language agreed 20 years ago will not produce a transformative agenda for the new framework and should be avoided. • The principles enshrined in the EU Gender Action Plan 2010-2015 should be reflected in the new framework and implemented. A mechanism to ensure accountability for commitments on gender equality and women’s empowerment should be put in place. HEALTH • Build on the proposed Health Goal from the OWG outcome document and target 3.7 to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. • The EU-Post 2015 Conclusions should build on the “UK Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict” by ensuring that a target on reproductive health in emergency settings is included. The particular needs of girls and women in relation to gender based violence and sexual and reproductive health are often overlooked in times of conflict and humanitarian crisis situations.
105	8/29/2014 7:32:35	South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication	Mr. Praman Adhikari	Nepalese	Nepal	Male	28	As reiterated by Rio +20 as well as by the Chapeau by the recently adopted SDGs, we want to reiterate our firm position to set target in Post-2015 development framework, “to take further effective measures and actions, in conformity with international law, to remove the obstacles to the full realization of the right of self-determination of peoples living under colonial and foreign occupation, which continue to adversely affect their economic and social development as well as their environment, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and must be combated and eliminated.”
106	8/29/2014 7:42:21	Population and Sustainable Development Alliance	Mette Schmid	Danish	Denmark	woman	38	The Population and Sustainable Development Alliance (PSDA) wishes to emphasize the critical cross-cutting nature of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for the achievement of sustainable development. As has been highlighted in many CSO inputs to post 2015 consultations, it is a basic human right for women, men and young people to control their sexual and reproductive health. Furthermore, it is essential for human health and well-being and for sustainable development overall, not least in emergency settings and in areas affected by climate change. Advancing SRHR can positively influence a number of sustainable development goals and priorities, including those related to health, gender equality, empowerment of women and youth, poverty alleviation, social inequalities, food and water security, and environmental sustainability. This should be adequately reflected in throughout the goals and targets of the 2015 framework, including particularly those related to health and gender but also water, climate change and education. PSDA welcomed the outcome of the OWG as a basis to start discussions on the post 2015 agenda. We are however concerned that the proposal failed to respect, protect and fulfil sexual and reproductive health and rights in full, and overlooked other necessary ways to address population dynamics in ways that respect and protect human rights. PSDA recommendations: Prioritize universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, as a crosscutting element throughout the post 2015 framework, including: • Universal access to SRHR, including for adolescents, and to contraception, information, services and supplies and safe and legal abortion services, also in emergency settings o universal access to comprehensive sexuality education o Advancement of the human rights of women and children, gender equality and the empowerment of women Use population data to help comprehensively address inequalities, with data dis-aggregated by sex, age, geographical and rural/urban location, educational background and economic quintile etc.
107	8/29/2014 8:08:23	Afrikagrupperna	Lisa Grafström	Swedish	Sweden	Female	37	While Afrikagrupperna supports mush of the OWGs proposal for SDG, we want to highlight specific demands and gaps essential to a successful SDG outcome document. We echo the strong focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the current proposal of SDG 5: -Ensure equal access to economical, political and social power and equal participation in decision making at all levels of society -Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights as specified in previous commitments -End all violence and discrimination against women and girls The HIV epidemic requires a continued political commitment to a comprehensive HIV response. A stronger focus on HIV is needed in SDG 3. -Ensure a rights-based approach to significantly decrease new HIV infections, end AIDS-related deaths and end discrimination for people living with HIV. We acknowledge the SDG 8, and emphasize the particular importance of: -by 2030 achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men and equal pay for work of equal value -protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments of all workers, including migrant workers and those in precarious employment This goal should include targets to: -Ensure that everyone have the right to a living wage -Ensure that workers have the right to organize for better working conditions To eradicate extreme poverty (SDG 1) the goals need to include more specific targets on natural resources, trade and rights. The suggested targets are relevant to SDG 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 17. -Ensure the right to land and natural resources -Ensure that investments in raw materials do not contribute to human rights violations and conflicts in countries of origin -Ensure the right for developing countries to use their natural resources for their own need and retain the right to regulate their exports including by using export taxes on raw materials -Ensure that foreign investors and their subsidiaries bear legal liability, including in their home states, for any complicity in human rights violations, environmental destruction, or for tax avoidance and tax evasion, including harmful transfer-pricing practices -Implement land for land reporting for multinational companies -Promote diversification of economies and value adding of raw materials through development-oriented policies -Ensure that trade agreements don’t limit the policy space of countries to take necessary measures for the realization of human rights
108	8/29/2014 8:59:17	New Line Social Organization	Abdul Qadeer Mesbah	Afghan	afghanistan	male	40	Civil society in some countries is still not strong enough for the government to engage in social behavior , illiteracy , poverty , equitable distribution of wealth among citizens and non-social disorders . actually have tied the hand of civil society . We hope that the UN member states to cooperate in their capacity to understand the role of civil society in the development of poor countries. This process is that civil society for human resource development and citizen volunteers to serve the citizens of their countries.
109	8/29/2014 10:07:42	TERRE DES JEUNES	YAMUREMYE Moïse	Bureundaise	BURUNDI	Masculin	27	Le mariage des enfants est souvent forcé de la part des parents qui cherche des profits.Ce sont des cas observés en Afrique.Je propose que le mariage des Enfants puisse être arrête car ça constitue une violation de droit de l'enfant.Car l'enfant est libre de choisir son propre mali.
110	8/29/2014 10:57:00	Concord Sweden Gender Working Group	Karin Nilsson	Swedish	Sweden	Female	40	We urge the PGA and Member States to ensure that the post-2015 agenda includes stronger commitments on gender equality and women and girls empowerment by fulfilling their human rights, including the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We welcome the cross-regional support in this regard in the consultation process on post-2015, and clearly expressed in the HLP report, the global thematic consultation on health, the OWG report, and at every stock-taking event. In order to successfully achieve gender equality and ensure healthy lives and well being, SRHR need to be fully respected, protected and fulfilled for all at all ages. The leaders of the world have particularly failed meeting the needs of adolescent girls. Young people have the same universal right as adults, to the highest attainable standard of health, and the right to information, education, security and privacy. Comprehensive sexuality education is a key aspect of education and ensures young peoples health and safe transition to adulthood, and the promotion of gender equality, non-discrimination and mutual respect in relationships.The post-2015 agenda must include comprehensive sexuality education as a clear target within the education goal for the largest generation of young people ever, so that they can make informed choices, live healthy and complete their education without being forced into marriage or to drop out of school due to unwanted pregnancies. The discriminatory social, cultural, economic and legal barriers for women and girls to have universal access to SRHR must be addressed with a human rights based approach, both under a specific health goal, as well as within the gender equality goal. We call for the integration of the ICPD Operational Review process and its Index Report into the post-2015 process, especially regarding international commitments on adolescents´ access to sexual and reproductive health services; access to comprehensive sexuality education, hiv prevention, contraception information, services and supplies and safe and legal abortion services; universal access to sexual rights and reproductive rights, including measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence based on gender identity, sexual orientation or expression; and gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in line with human rights instruments, international commitments (CEDAW, Beijing PfA) and accountability mechanisms.
111	8/29/2014 11:38:02	MenEngage Alliance	Joni van de Sand	Netherlands	United States	Female	31	MenEngage is a global alliance of NGOs working together with men&boys to achieve gender equality. We believe the SDGs for gender justice are more likely to be achieved through engaging men&boys: for the benefit of women&girls, for men&boys themselves, and for a world that is just, peaceful and sustainable. We: -Stand with the Women’s Major Group, UN Women and other human rights, gender & social justice advocates -Recognize the Post-2015 agenda must embrace a human rightsbased approach + transform unequal power relations between women&men -Applaud the OWG for proposing SDG 5 -Welcome central placement of human rights, gender equality & women’s empowerment in the chapeau -Welcome gender equality & women’s empowerment as cross-cutting issue in many proposed goals -Welcome key systemic gender-justice issues proposed as targets under SDG5 including ending/eliminating discrimination, violence and harmful practices against women&girls -Believe that engaging men&boys can contribute to a transformative agenda, addressing root causes of gender inequalities and speaking to the roles and responsibilities of men&boys -Believe that targets can be strengthened and are more likely to be achieved by developing indicators which stimulate and monitor engagement of men&boys, and by actively engaging men&boys in policies and practices to implement the SDG-framework We encourage UN agencies and member states to embrace our suggestions: Address men&boy’s roles in preventing and responding to Gender Based Violence (GBV). Possible indicators under target 5.2 could be: - men condemning rape supportive attitudes - men supporting existing GBV laws - men seeking help to change violent behavior - national, regional, global policies that seek to engage men&boys for gender equality Commit men&boys to equal share in caregiving and household work; engage men as partners, clients and agents of change in SRHR. Possible indicators under target 5.4 could be: - weekly hours men spend providing care for children and others - countries with paternity & maternity leave - men compliant with state regulations related to child support Engage men as partners, clients and agents of change in SRHR, maternal, newborn and child health. Possible indicators under target 5.6 could be: - men who seek + support access to HIV treatment and prevention services - men who view contraceptive use as joint responsibility - men who accompany partners to prenatal visits - contraceptive use of male methods
112	8/29/2014 11:49:23	Girls Not Brides UK	Heather Saunders	British	UK	Female	28	Girls Not Brides UK partnership believes ending child early and forced marriage (CEFM) must be a priority area for the post 2015 framework. Child marriage is a grave violation of children’s human rights. Despite being prohibited by international human rights law and many national laws, child marriage continues to rob approximately 14 million girls of their childhood annually. Child marriage is a public health issue as well as a human rights violation.Girls married early are more likely to experience violence, abuse and forced sexual relations.They are more vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (including HIV) and their sexual and reproductive health is placed at serious risk. Girls married early are also likely to have children early.Childbirth at an early age is associated with greater health risks for the mother and child.In low and middle-income countries, complications of pregnancy and childbirth are two of the leading causes of death in young women aged 15- 19 years old. Child marriage also has far reaching impacts on the overall development of low and middle-income countries. Over 60 per cent of girls who are married early have had no formal education.Contrarily, evidence shows that girls’ attendance at secondary school can boost their earning potential by 15 – 25 percent. The education of girls is central to the economic empowerment of families and communities.Research suggests that women reinvest up to 90 percent of their earnings into their families, whilst men invest around 30-40 percent. The call to action in the current target addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must include a target and indicators on ending child marriage, and should mandate that holistic and multi-sectoral programs, legislative support, and funding must be committed to end child, early and forced marriage as a key form of violence against women and girls in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
113	8/29/2014 13:28:29	ACT Alliance	Daniel Pieper	British	United States	Male	32	ACT Alliance brings together 148 churches and affiliated organisations, from over 140 countries, most are based in the global south. The Alliance is both faith and rights-based, and members have been actively involved in the post-2015, Rio+20 and FfD conversations. We have advocated for a much greater focus on inequality, environmental sustainability and resilience, good governance, and peace-building, within the new goals. We welcomed the ‘leave no one behind’ agenda, and we hope this will be embedded within the final post-2015 agreement, resulting in improved outcomes for the most marginalised communities. We have stressed the need for accelerated action on gender equality, particularly as it relates to violence. We have expressed concern with increasing economic inequality around the world. A successful post-2015 outcome will offer solutions to growing global economic and class divides. In addition to a clear target to reduce economic inequality, policy solutions such as social protection and progressive fiscal policies, should also be promoted through the framework. Chiefly, we have been calling for an alignment of the post-2015 development agenda with both the UNFCCC process on climate change, and the post-Hyogo process on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). On climate change, we have argued that all relevant targets should be low-carbon and climate-resilient. On DRR, we have actively called for clear outcome-based targets to increase resilience and reduce deaths and economic loss from disasters. ACT Alliance acknowledges that a post-2015 framework will only be successful when implemented by transparent and accountable governments. This is a universal requirement, but particularly important for countries or regions experiencing situations of conflict and fragility. ACT Alliance believes that the promotion of good governance and peace-building is essential to achieve sustainable development. The process should be commended for its openness to civil society input, although efforts to better engage the grassroots can always be improved. The OWG negotiations have made space for the Major Groups. However, there is no clear space where faith communities can contribute. We hope there will be continued openness to and access for civil society to participate, through the inter-governmental negotiations, the 2015 Summit and through the High-Level Political Forum and any other fora which will holds states accountable for delivery of the development agenda.
114	8/29/2014 14:31:21	International Cooperative Alliance	Rodrigo Gouveia	Portuguese	Belgium	Male	40	The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) is an independent, non-governmental organization established in 1895 to unite, represent and serve co-operatives worldwide. Despite the fact that the role of cooperatives in achieving sustainable development has been recognized by the UN in several occasions (e.g. UN International Year of Cooperatives 2012; Rio+20 conclusions; 2014 International Day of Cooperatives, etc.), we feel that this has been missing in the Sustainable Development Goals debate. Co-operative enterprises are, by design, well-suited models to deliver sustainable development goals. They are people-centered because they are owned and democratically controlled by their members and answer to the real needs of those members; they generate wealth and equitably redistribute it to the local communities where they operate; they create and maintain decent jobs more than other types of enterprises even during times of crisis. The European Union, on a recent Communication about the role of the private sector in fostering development (http://s.coop/1ux9v) recognizes that “private sector activity can take many forms and it will impact on economic development in various ways. The private sector is highly diverse (…)” and states, “Each of these private sector actors requires different conditions and incentives to contribute to development, entailing differentiated approaches to their support and engagement for development.” In fact “Cooperatives, social enterprises and other forms of people-centred business are often leading the way in providing decent jobs, sustainable livelihoods and inclusive solutions to social problems” says the aforementioned Communication of the EU. The UN Sustainable Development Goals should provide the same recognition so that new partnerships with co-operatives and other similar actors can be better developed and tailored. A few examples of the extremely rich work being developed by co-operatives across the world can be found here: www.stories.coop; https://coopseurope.coop/development/; http://www.nreca.coop/what-we-do/international-programs/; http://ncba.coop/international/maps; http://www.weeffect.org
115	8/29/2014 14:49:02	Instituto Promundo	Alice Taylor	US	Brazil	female	31	Ending child, early and forced marriage must be comprehensively and strategically addressed in the post-2015 development framework. The call to action in addressing child, early and forced marriage is not strong enough. Child, early and forced marriage infringe upon the rights of girls and women, and have undermined achievement of six of the eight MDGs. If we do not take firm and immediate action to address the practice, progress toward economic development, stopping HIV-AIDS, lowering maternal and infant mortality, stopping violence against women, achieving education for all and combatting inequality, will not be achieved. Brazil has largely been absent from global discussions and advocacy about child marriage. The topic has also not been part of the national research and policymaking agendas. Nonetheless, limited existing data and preliminary Promundo research suggest that it is an issue of concern and that conducting research on child marriage in a country like Brazil will have important implications for other settings where the practice is also “below the radar screen” there is work ahead in involving men and boys in preventing the practice. According to the latest census, in 2010 more than 42,700 girls aged 10-14 were living in a union in Brazil. In 2013 Promundo therefore initiated the ‘Exploring Child Marriage’ research project with support from the Ford Foundation. As informal unions are common in Brazil, and can be understood as related to child marriage in terms of similar causes and consequences, this research looks at the continuum and the nature of marriage, stable union, cohabitation in Brazil. Promundo recommends the following actions for ending child marriage and furthering development goals: (1) involve men and boys in the prevention of child marriage via group education, advocacy, and other evidence-based initiatives that challenge and transform gender norms and promote equitable relationships; (2) increase our understanding of child marriage in settings in which it is underexplored and therefore absent in development dialogues; and (3) gather data and promote cross-regional learning in order to create and strengthen policies and programming. We encourage the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to make clear in their reports that the final development framework must mandate that programs to end child, early and forced marriage be prioritised in all states if we are to achieve the next set of goals.
116	8/29/2014 16:58:40	Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control	Shana Narula	USA	USA	Female	27	The OWG's proposal for the SDGs currently includes the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) as a key means of implementation to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. It is imperative to emphasize the importance of tobacco control and the FCTC in the post-2015 development agenda as tobacco use impacts all areas of sustainable development. The FCTC is a proven and cost effective tool for countries to implement to achieve sustainable development.
117	8/29/2014 17:17:36	C-Fam	Rebecca Oas, PhD	USA	USA	Female	33	1. We need to focus on improving maternal health in the post-2015 development agenda. Development and health policies so far have only reduced maternal deaths 22% since 1990, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Recent analysis of maternal health programs currently in place found they are not effective, and the medicines and interventions that are now getting attention are “almost useless”, according to reports in the Associated Press. 2. The post-2015 development agenda should build on efforts to achieve MDG5. Concrete measures that improve maternal health are well known and are not controversial and include (1) Higher education levels for women, (2) Skilled birth attendants, (3) Prenatal and antenatal care, (4) Access to water and sanitation, (5) Emergency obstetric care. Changes in abortion law do not improve maternal health. Similarly, contraception and other similar reproductive commodities do not make pregnancy or childbirth any safer for women, even though they might reduce overall maternal deaths because of a reduction in overall pregnancies. 3. It would be duplicative and ineffective to simply recommit countries to already existing commitments like ICPD. ICPD policies have been remarkably successful on their own terms. Only 8% of women in poor countries say they can’t afford or lack access to contraception. Pregnant mothers have received the short end of the stick, when it comes to ICPD policies and their implementation. Despite a remarkable flow of resources to ICPD policies over the past two decades, maternal health has not improved anywhere near the 75% target reduction of maternal deaths by 2015. ICPD policies and their implementation have diverted resources away from maternal health to fertility reduction measures and contentious social policies. 4. The notion of “reproductive rights” in particular should not be included in the post-2015 development agenda. The term refers to changing norms. The post-2015 development agenda must be about measurable outcomes and results. Including the reproductive rights in the post-2015 development agenda diverts attention away from policies that improve the concrete conditions of women to politically divisive debates about normative change best left to sovereign states. See http://c-fam.org/en/briefing-papers/7910-the-unfinished-business-of-mdg-5-on-maternal-health-and-the-post-2015-development-agenda
118	8/29/2014 18:20:41	Articulación Regional de América Latina y el Caribe rumbo a Cairo+20	Nayeli Yoval	Mexicana	México	Femenino	31	The Cairo+20 Regional LAC Alliance recognizes the efforts of both governments and the UN system to build a Development Agenda Post-2015, however, we have several concerns about the proposed goals from the 13th session of the OGW. We believe that it is relevant that they be considered in the September 10th-11th meeting. •It is essential that the Post-2015 agenda be built on a human rights framework and that it considers the intersections that exist between human rights, population and development. •There should be an in-depth reflection on the current development model which plunders nature, reinforces exclusion, racism, homophobia, discrimination and all types of fundamentalisms, ignores poverty and reinforces inequalities – allowing the accumulation of wealth and privileges for a few – by not contemplating targets that imply a profound transformation of economic and financial systems. • The development vision for the Post-2015 Agenda should not be limited to reducing poverty. Justice and happiness should be its objective and, for this, it has to include both the productive and reproductive arenas. This Agenda should support a people-centered development, in harmony with nature, which understands and integrates diversity and ensures the full guarantee of human rights, especially sexual and reproductive rights, including for adolescents and young people, without any discrimination. •It is urgent that the Post-2015 Development Agenda comprehensively incorporate sexual and reproductive health and rights. We insist that the proposed Goal 3 include: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health for all people, especially for women of all ages and diversities, without discrimination or coercion of any type. Also, we demand that target 3.1 consider the eradication of avoidable maternal mortality, not only its reduction. •That there is a true recognition of the contribution made by women to the economy through domestic and care work. This means moving from rhetoric to reduction, redistribution and retribution. •That target 5.6 read as follows: ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and sexual and reproductive rights. •That in the targets for political and institutional coherence, coherence between human rights and public policy and sustainable development is included. •That the development agenda includes the necessary mechanisms to effectively incorporate civil society participation in the follow-up to their implementation.
119	8/29/2014 22:33:21	International Collaboration for Essential Surgery	Jaymie Henry	US	United States	Female	33	The International Collaboration for Essential Surgery and the International Federation of Surgical Colleges are a network of surgeons and public health specialists with over 40 years of experience working in surgery in rural and developing countries both in academic and functional capacities. We strongly believe that essential surgical care, which has never been part of any global sustainable development strategy within the UN or at the WHO, should figure prominently in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. This issue has been completely neglected in the last 30 years. As a result, - The up to 15-20% of women who need surgical care during childbirth suffer completely preventable complications or premature death, as is their newborn - 5 million people die yearly from injuries, almost 25% more than HIV, TB, and malaria combined. Up to 2 million lives can be saved with proper care for the injured - One in every 1,000 children are born with a cleft lip or clubfoot, a significant proportion of which go on untreated, living their lives with disability and unfulfilled potential Without a focus on building this essential health care service, true Universal Health Coverage cannot be achieved, leaving behind the two billion marginalized individuals who do not have access to basic surgical care. The current iteration of the post-2015 sustainable development goals does not include explicit language on the need to strengthen essential surgical care within health care systems. We therefore recommend the following amendments: Goal 3.7 Should include "emergency surgical obstetric care" highlighted as an essential reproductive health care service Goal 3.8 Should explicitly mention "affordable essential surgical care" alongside medicines and vaccines for all. Highlighting essential medicines and vaccines but not surgical care sends a signal to the public that only medical and preventive treatment is given importance Include: 3.e Strengthen the capacity of all countries to deliver safe, quality, and affordable emergency and essential surgical care for all
120	8/29/2014 23:48:38	LDC Watch	Prerna Mingma Bomzan	Nepalese	Nepal	Female	38	The Post-2015 development agenda must comprise a dedicated, stand-alone goal for the UN-defined least developed countries with 'special needs' characterised by structural, historical and geographical impediments and vulnerabilities. Since 1971, member states have shown commitments to provide special development attention; however the LDCs have only grown twice in number. The ongoing Istanbul Programme of Action for the LDCs (IPoA) aims to halve the number of LDCs by the end of the decade and therefore, the upcoming new Post-2015 agenda is another historical opportunity for member states to keep the LDCs at centre stage of sustainable development. As reiterated by the Rio+20, the commitment expressed in the Johannesbourg Plan of Implementation, the World Summit Outcome of 2005 and the MDGs Summit of 2010; the Post-2015 agenda must set a specific target to "take further effective measures and actions, in conformity with international law, to remove the obstacles to the full realization of the right of self-determination of peoples living under colonial and foreign occupation, which continue to adversely affect their economic and social development as well as their environment, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and must be combated and eliminated" in order to achieve genuinely stable and peaceful societies.
121	9/1/2014 16:49:16	Merciful Assistance Foundation	Saula B. JIMOH	Nigerian	Nigeria	M	75years	Merciful Assistance Foundation of Nigeria commends and supports the proposed sustainable development 17 Goals and plead that priority attention is focused on Goal 2 "End Hunger". The solution is promotion of sustainable agriculture. Through agriculture, we would be able to feed millions of refugees, the victims of senseless wars and natural disasters in some parts of the world. Merchanised agriculture is the key break through. Youth unemployment will be reduced, hunger and poverty will also be reduced. Thank you Saula B. JIMOH, National Coordinaton +1121611611
122	9/2/2014 10:26:13	Every Mother Counts	Jessica Bowers	USA	USA	F	38	Prioritize: (1) ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity through investments in integrated services for women along the full continuum of care for reproductive, maternal, newborn health; (2) ending practices that contribute to maternal deaths and disabilities and violate the human rights of women and girls, including early marriage, adolescent births, FGM, domestic violence; (3) including women and girls in all decision-making that impacts their lives.
123	9/5/2014 6:37:25	Human Affect Ad Hoc Unit	Sandra Nelson Zongo	Native American - US Citizen	United States	Female	40	Implementation Initiatives are active safe, holistic, sustainable best practices that can be integrated and interconnected through various innovative, traditional, scientific, artistic, athletic based mechanism for the shared responsibility in bringing together solutions that are ongoing and secure for humanity and planet mother earth. Invest in the holistic, sustainable futures of humanity and planet mother earth by partnering with Human Affect in implementing action that implements a sustainable infrastructure that offers: 1. Clean, Safe, Holistic, Accessible Water 2. Holistic Economical, Ecological, Social Peace Cities 3. Community Information Resource Centers and Libraries 4. Human Rights Learning Empowerment Training and Curriculum's 5. Sustainable Higher Learning Centers 6. Human Right to Read Satellite Schools 7. Holistic Farming, Agriculture and Permaculture Gardens 8. Women's Economic Development Indigenous, Original and Aboriginal People's Natural, Sacred Commons Commons amongst Aboriginal/Original/Indigenous People's globally, who emenate from those lands, is a respectful inclusive approach of decision making based on consensus and the recognition that both men and women bring their own differing but equal gifts to the process. Original/Indigenous Peoples as custodians of the lands and waterways understand the interdependence between People's, all living things and the environment, cognizant of our responsibility as caretakers for the many future generations of children not yet born. These values and ways of seeing and being ensure our resources are utilized in sustainable ways for our communities, our landscapes, our water ways and planet mother earths evolving nature. Indigenous People's comprise up of over and estimated measured 500 million and countless more Aboriginal/Original/Indigenous People's, internationally/globally that manage and produce commons infrastructure(s) that are organized, coordinated, traditionally sustained and shared upon as an integrated, responsible foundation, on a basis of respect of the understanding sustained within the moral and ethical character of our cultures, traditions, languages, knowledge and intellectual property built up over the millenniums. Aboriginal/Indigenous/Original People's assert and maintain our sovereignty, despite subjugation, displacement and enforced occupation.
124	9/6/2014 11:16:10	IMAECSED	Samir Kumar Das	Indian	India	Male	63	IMAECSED is very much interested to involve with NGLS and other UN body and its activities.
125	9/8/2014 4:52:04	Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development	Kate Lappin	Ausralian	Thailand	F	44	Re ICESDF: We welcome the Committee’s recognition that its work must be founded on the key Rio principles, inc.human rights, gender equality, and common but differentiated responsibilities. We are glad that the Committee recognises the need for country ownership supported by a strengthened global partnership for development, although regret that these principles are not expressed in stronger terms. We are deeply concerned at the primacy of private financing in the Committee’s recommendations, especially in the absence of a clear call for binding accountability frameworks that ensure the private sector acts consistently with environmental and human rights norms. We are also disappointed to note that important outcomes that the Committee supported in its early work, such as reduction in inequality within and between countries, the introduction of a global tax floor, the impact of military expenditure on national spending, and addressing land-grabbing, do not appear in the report. The Committee acknowledges challenges posed by current trends in international investment and trade, including the tightening link between trade and FDI that characterises BITs and global value chains. BITs can have deleterious impacts on national SD strategies through the inclusion, for example, of investor-state dispute settlement clauses. While we welcome the committee's recommendation that “a better balance between investor rights and sovereign capacity to regulate in the public interest” may be struck through “the further elaboration of standards for investment in areas that directly impact domestic sustainable development outcomes and ensuring investments don’t undermine international human rights standards,” the language is weaker than previously articulated, i.e. in recommending standards to address the impact of large-scale land purchases or leases in developing countries. The Committee has missed an opportunity to address the infringement on national sovereignty signaled by the negotiation of a number of large trade and investment agreements including the highly coercive and oppressive impact of the ISDS. Further, while there is recognition that “the contribution of FDI to sustainable development is not uniform” there is no strong recommendation on how to reorient FDI towards sustainable development. This is crucial for women, since gender gaps in wages and labour conditions represent a vicious incentive for FDI in the global South.
126	9/8/2014 11:44:09	Namati	Paul McCann	UK	UK	Male	47	Around the world, four billion people live without the full protection of the law. They can be unfairly driven from their land, denied essential services, extorted by officials, excluded from society, and intimidated by violence. Their lack of legal protection is a source of repression and an affront to human dignity. If the post-2015 framework fails to empower people to understand and use the law, those billions will be left behind. By concentrating on five priorities—access to information, legal identity, rights to land and property, legal participation, and legal services—the new framework can ensure that no one is left behind. These principles have been endorsed by over 230 organizations in over 50 countries: 1. Access to Information: People should know about the laws and regulations that govern their lives. States should commit to disseminating simple and clear statements of law and policy. 2. Legal Identity: Without state-issued identity documents, individuals may not be able to open a bank account, obtain a mobile phone, or secure the goods and services. Government should ensure that access to legal identity is universal. 3. Rights to Land and Property: Approximately three billion people around the world live without secure rights to their greatest assets: their lands, forests, and pastures. Securing property rights for all individuals, including women, is necessary to improve financial stability and personal safety. 4. Legal Participation: All persons are entitled to shape the laws and policies that affect their lives. People should have a voice in how services like healthcare and education are delivered. 5. Legal Services: Everyone should have access to fair, effective forums for resolving conflicts, for seeking protection from violence, and for addressing grievances with the state. Creative legal aid efforts, such as those that combine a small corps of public interest lawyers with a larger frontline of community paralegals, can seek effective solutions and engage the full range of justice institutions. This opportunity to pursue what is right must be grasped. Deprivation cannot be defeated, nor can the threat of dispossession and exploitation be lifted, without legal empowerment.
127	9/8/2014 15:38:00	Health for All Post-2015	Jonathan Jay	USA	USA	Male	32	Health for All Post-2015 represents 43 civil society organizations based in at least 19 countries around the world advocating for universal health coverage (UHC) in the post-2015 framework. Our campaign commends the Open Working Group and other advisory bodies which have recognized UHC as a post-2015 priority. Progress towards this objective would serve the post-MDG aim of reducing poverty, while driving more integrated, comprehensive response to ongoing and emerging health challenges. It is critical that financial protection and access to quality, affordable health services remain integral to the definition of UHC in post-2015. Other critical dimensions of equity, accountability and other principles may be formalized through the indicators process. The guiding principles we recommend for these indicators are available at healthforallcampaign.org/call-to-action.
128	9/9/2014 16:04:36	Global Ecovillage Network	Rob Wheeler	USA	USA	Male	64	I am writing on behalf of the Global Ecovillage Network. We've participated in the meetings of the Open Working Group and other Post 2015 processes. We've been disappointed with the inadequate attention given to community development in the SDGs and ask that this be remedied. We ask the UN Member States to set a target for investing in communities' capacities to manage their own resources, be they ecological, economic or social in nature. The international community must support the development of thriving, empowered and resilient communities in both the North and South and in rural, urban and even suburban communities. Governments should also facilitate democratic spaces where communities can participate in their local development plans, receive training and extension services on natural resource management, and be supported in creating strong local economies. Agenda 21 & Rio +20 The targets under Cities and Human Settlements should also reflect the ambition included in Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 and the Rio +20 Agreement. Chapter 28 said "Most local authorities in each country should have undertaken a consultative process and achieved a consensus on "a local Agenda 21" for the community. Through consultation and consensus-building, local authorities would learn from citizens and from local, civic, community, business and industrial organizations and acquire the information needed for formulating the best strategies." Tens of thousands of communities have developed such strategies and plans. But given there are millions of villages, towns, and cities around the world much more needs to be done at the community level. Similarly, the Rio+20 agreement reads: 13. We recognize that people’s opportunities to influence their lives and future, participate in decision making and voice their concerns are fundamental for sustainable development. 42. We further acknowledge efforts and progress made at the local and sub-national levels, and recognize the important role that such authorities and communities can play in implementing sustainable development, including by engaging citizens and stakeholders... (Our recommendations will be in a second submission)
129	9/9/2014 16:05:54	Global Ecovillage Network	Rob Wheeler	USA	USA	Male	64	Recommendations from the Global Ecovillage Network: Part 2 Strenthening the Role of Community Development In order to increase the level of commitment paragraph 11.3 should be strengthened to read (with added text in bold): "By 2030 enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and significantly increase the capacities for and level of participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning, management, and implementation in all countries building on and harnessing already existing synergies, momentum and initiatives present at the local level" Similarly local development planning should be added to target 11a to read: "Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening local, national and regional development planning and carrying this out in a coherent and integrated manner across all levels of government and sectors of the society and economy." And the target under capacity building should be strengthened to read: "17.9 enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity building in developing countries - based on local wisdom, knowledge and skills - to support local, regional and national plans to implement all sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South, and triangular cooperation" Supporting Sustainable Rural and Impoverished Urban Development The Millennium Villages in some twenty African countries, thousands of Ecovillage communities, and the UN's own Small Grants Program have shown repeatedly how effective and productive an integrated, multi-sectoral community based approach to sustainable rural development is and can be. We thus call on the UN Member States to include a target on the need for the "development of an integrated multi-sectoral community based approach to sustainable rural as well as impoverished urban development to ensure that all people's basic human needs can be met." We would also like to see the inclusion of incentives for communities to control and manage their own resources (including both ecological and social) along with the need to recognize the importance of and to support local economic development. Finally we call for policies which support community resilience and that they recognize the value of community cohesion, cooperation, the benefits of collective action, and the pooling of resources, spreading of risk and more participatory planning and management processes.
130	9/9/2014 16:35:53	Commons Cluster	Rob Wheeler & Lisinka Ulatowska	USA	USA and Netherlands	Male and Female	64 & 70	In this era it is essential that the deep conscience of all people be revived so we can once more live in harmony with nature and respect the dignity of each human being and all forms of life. Humanity has already crossed 3 planetary boundaries and is beginning to exceed others. We fight over, while also rapidly depleting, the natural resource base and other shared resources, thus increasingly threatening lives and livelihoods and destabilizing governments. We must therefore take the steps needed to transition as rapidly as possible to full sustainability. Since the Earth System is one interconnected whole it is essential that we recognize and respect it as a global commons and natural heritage that rightfully belongs to and should be protected and managed by all people. We agree with our Governments that all of the international agreements made to date can and must be implemented together with the SDGs and together these should form an integral part of each country's National Sustainability Strategy. All countries and communities must be given the support needed to fully achieve the SDGs, Summit outcomes, MEAs, Conventions and Protocols, Local and National Sustainability Strategies, and Action Plans on SCP in a fully integrated manner, across all levels of government and society and all sectors and issue areas. A Capacity 2030 program is needed to support all countries and communities in carrying out these agreements. This could be done in collaboration with the Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development. See: http://ncsds.org It is essential to enable all people to become conscious of their impact on the Earth System by developing a personal relationship to the earth and learning to calculate their global/water/carbon/ecological/biodiversity footprints. Universal access to ICT and the Internet is needed to empower individual people, closing the gap between rich and poor and leaving no one behind. Innovative means of finance are needed to ensure that new means of funding are provided sufficient to achieve the goals being set. For example, taxes could be shifted off of wages and the purchase of basic goods and services and placed instead on the ownership and use of land and natural resources. Finally, we suggest the Trusteeship Council be re-purposed and used to set up a global resource agency to collectively manage our Global Commons - as discussed in the UN Task Team Report on the Global Commons.
131	9/9/2014 16:36:31	Commons Cluster	Rob Wheeler & Lisinka Ulatowska	USA	USA and Netherlands	Male and Female	64 & 70	In this era it is essential that the deep conscience of all people be revived so we can once more live in harmony with nature and respect the dignity of each human being and all forms of life. Humanity has already crossed 3 planetary boundaries and is beginning to exceed others. We fight over, while also rapidly depleting, the natural resource base and other shared resources, thus increasingly threatening lives and livelihoods and destabilizing governments. We must therefore take the steps needed to transition as rapidly as possible to full sustainability. Since the Earth System is one interconnected whole it is essential that we recognize and respect it as a global commons and natural heritage that rightfully belongs to and should be protected and managed by all people. We agree with our Governments that all of the international agreements made to date can and must be implemented together with the SDGs and together these should form an integral part of each country's National Sustainability Strategy. All countries and communities must be given the support needed to fully achieve the SDGs, Summit outcomes, MEAs, Conventions and Protocols, Local and National Sustainability Strategies, and Action Plans on SCP in a fully integrated manner, across all levels of government and society and all sectors and issue areas. A Capacity 2030 program is needed to support all countries and communities in carrying out these agreements. This could be done in collaboration with the Global Network of National Councils for Sustainable Development. See: http://ncsds.org It is essential to enable all people to become conscious of their impact on the Earth System by developing a personal relationship to the earth and learning to calculate their global/water/carbon/ecological/biodiversity footprints. Universal access to ICT and the Internet is needed to empower individual people, closing the gap between rich and poor and leaving no one behind. Innovative means of finance are needed to ensure that new means of funding are provided sufficient to achieve the goals being set. For example, taxes could be shifted off of wages and the purchase of basic goods and services and placed instead on the ownership and use of land and natural resources. Finally, we suggest the Trusteeship Council be re-purposed and used to set up a global resource agency to collectively manage our Global Commons - as discussed in the UN Task Team Report on the Global Commons.
132	9/10/2014 8:23:21	Ecolise	Eamon O'Hara	Irish	France	Male	46	Recognising the pivotal role of community-led initiatives The European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability, ECOLISE: 1. Welcomes the efforts of the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals to formulate a common set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and commends the work of the Co-Chairs and the Secretariat on the comprehensiveness of the current 17 goals. 2. Emphasises the need of these goals to truly address the threats to humanity by the current breach of planetary boundaries and focus joint actions required to attain sustainable futures for all. 3. Recognises the current role of Governments and other authorities in providing a genuine enabling environment to allow fully inclusive participation by local communities in numerous decisions that affect their lives and livelihoods. 4. Notes with regret that very few of the goals recognize the pivotal role of local communities as KEY drivers of lasting sustainable development and adaptation to climate change. 5. Considers that a top-down approach, as set out in the SDGs, cannot succeed unless communities feel a deeper ownership of those aspects that impinge upon their own future livelihoods and that they are empowered to drive the process themselves 6. Notes that focus remains on large-scale, centralised systems of production of goods and services rather than increased reliance on sustainable local production and consumption of basic needs such as water, food and energy 7. Recommends that the SDGs set clearer requirements on developed countries to rapidly facilitate decentralised community-led action to move towards achieving their own sustainability 8. Advocates that the final set of goals take in consideration the interconnectedness between the different dimensions of sustainable development 9. Finally, calls on the main stakeholders of the international community to have the courage to finalise implementable, monitored SDGs that enable a global, community-led transition to resilience that will allow future generations to live in harmony with their environment. ECOLISE is in the process of preparing more detailed contributions on each of the 17 SDGs.
133	9/30/2014 18:18:34	American Psychiatric Association	Paul Summergrad	American	United States of America	Male	65	Mental health must be a critical crosscutting concern that is included in every goal of the Post 2015 Agenda. We know that mental disorders affect millions of people worldwide, many of which are preventable and treatable illnesses. We strongly urge the Post 2014 Agenda to include: - Early detection and prevention of all mental disorders - Ensured access to adequate, humane and standard treatments - Public education to reduce stigma - Mental health policies in every country's health agenda - Depression, predicted to become the number one cause of Disability Adjusted Life Years, classified as non-communicable disease - Addressing and protecting the psychological needs of children at every stage of their development - Acknowledge, prevent and treat the effects of violence on men, women and children - Effective policies, monitoring and implementation are crucial - The right to mental health care should be considered a human right