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The 50th CPD took place on 3-7 April 2017 at the UN in New York. The theme was “Changing population age structures and sustainable development”. Despite weeks of informal negotiations and ten days of formal ones on a draft resolution that had been put forward by the Chair of the Commission, Ms Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani (Qatar), the member States failed to reach a consensus, and for the second time in three years, the session … Continued

  The UN is ours, but it has lost its way. We need to get it back! A statement by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: “As governments across all continents continue to adopt laws and policies curtailing civil society participation in democratic spaces, international sites have become even more critical to confront and hold governments accountable. The United States’ anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, and anti-Muslim travel ban … Continued