Youth CSW60 Declaration

The Youth CSW60 Forum was held from the 11th to the 12th of March 2016. One of the outcomes of this Youth Forum was a Youth Declaration for which WGNRR provided input and support specially with language regarding HIV and SRHR content. Please find attached the final Youth Declaration which was delivered to the Chair, Ambassador Patriota on the morning of the 17th of March 2016.

The Declaration highlights how gender equality is necessary to reach all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and joins the United Nations in calling on Member States to ensure gender-just and youth-accountable implementation of the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Delegates of the Youth Forum note that while leaders worldwide speak to the need for young women’s and girls’empowerment and leadership to achieve sustainable development, youth voices are nevertheless marginalized within, and excluded from, official CSW and SDG processes. The 2016 YouthCSW Forum calls on the 60th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women to fully resource and implement UN Women’s LEAPs framework and formally adopt gender-just and youth-centric policy recommendations into the Agreed Conclusions.

Read the full declaration here!