women’s rights and empowerment are key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by Noeleen Heyzer
...First, women’s advocates are dismayed that, despite their success in pushing for recognition of women’s rights as human rights by governments through UN conferences, many of these hard-won victories are not reaffirmed in the Millennium Declaration, and are entirely absent in the MDGs themselves....They point to the lack of a goal on reproductive rights, or a decent work standard for women or men, the absence of issues such as violence against women, and the narrow targets and indicators for the gender equality goal...
...Making gender equality and women’s human rights central to the MDGs means making connections between the MDGs and global agreements such as CEDAW and
those that emerged from Vienna, Beijing,and Cairo. This requires a commitment from donors to finance women’s empowerment. It requires support for women’s organising, to push for policies to ensure that rhetoric is translated into concrete actions. And finally,it requires recognition by the international development community that the motor of gender mainstreaming is commitment to women’s rights and gender empowerment...
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