The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) is joining in the efforts to elect a feminist UN Secretary General. CWGL would like individuals to share why they want a feminist Secretary General via a 30 second video. Please submit your video to comm@cwgl.rutgers.edu to be added to the YouTube #she4SG Playlist. Click here http://bit.ly/1TB6y3H to view videos from others who want a #She4SG and please encourage people to send in their own videos!
Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)
In April 2015, Equality Now relaunched their Time for a Woman Secretary-General campaign, first begun in 1996, noting that there are many qualified women for the position, including those highlighted by WomanSG, as well as the need for an open and transparent process also called for by the 1 for 7 Billion campaign. A mechanism for nominating women to senior positions, is called for in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action endorsed by 189 governments. Members of the public can send letters directly to all 15 UN Security Council members as well as the relevant ministers of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council through Equality Now’s Web site, encouraging them to nominate and select a woman candidate in an open and transparent process.
Equality Now
A Feminist Agenda for the new UN Secretary-General for the first 100 days in office
We need your help. As the elections of the next UN Secretary- General is fast approaching, a group of women’s rights organizations have come together to shape what we think should be the feminist agenda of the Secretary- General. Please lend your organizational support by signing on to the petition below. Join us in our efforts and help us make these issues a priority for the Secretary-General in their first 100 days in office.
Here are a list of other organizations and their efforts to make sure that the 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations is a woman. Read below how you can support and become involved in a global effort for gender equality and a woman for the world's top diplomat.
WomanSG Allies
Spanish Women in International Security (SWIIS) is an international affiliate of WIIS-Global, a network actively advancing women´s leadership in the international peace and security field. Its primary purpose is to provide initiatives related to gender mainstreaming in the promotion of peace and security, enhancing visibility in policy and academic circles on foreign and defence affairs. SWIIS supports the efforts to get a woman elected UN Secretary-General of the United Nations.
SWIIS was created in 2011 under the auspices of the Association of Spanish Graduates in Security and Defense (ADESyD). You can find more information at http://www.adesyd.es/swiis/index.php.
Spanish Women in International Security (SWIIS)
Women In International Security (WIIS) is the premier organization in the world dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace and security. WIIS (pronounced “wise”) sponsors leadership training, mentoring, and networking programs as well as substantive events focused on current policy problems. WIIS also supports research projects and policy engagement initiatives on critical international security issues, including the nexus between gender and security. For additional information on how to join WIIS' global network, please visit http://wiisglobal.org/.
Women in International Security (WIIS)
The Women’s Major Group (WMG), which facilitates women’s and feminist civil society participation in UN processes related to sustainable development and Agenda 2030, launched a Change.org petition for a Feminist Secretary General in February 2016. The WMG believes the next Secretary General must bring a strong feminist perspective to the UN, in line with the UN’s core values of human rights, equality, and justice. The SG must have demonstrated a capacity to challenge inequality in all its forms, provoke bold action and reform, and address the global structures, systems and values that undermine gender equality, women’s human rights around the world. After the appointment of eight male Secretaries-General, it is time for a woman to lead. The WMG is self-organised and open to all interested organisations working to promote human rights based sustainable development with a focus on women’s human rights, women’s empowerment and gender equality.
The Women's Major Group (WMG)
