📷 GADN Secretariat and Chair of the Board at GADN Members’ Meeting on Building Effective Anti-racist and Decolonial Practices (September 2022) © Angela Gokani Brasier
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June 2024
Response: The 2024 G7 Leaders’ Communique included some positive language on gender equality but presents a regression from last year’s text, especially concerning sexual and reproductive health and rights - particularly the omission of reference to safe and legal abortions.
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Learning paper: This learning paper collates lessons learned and reflections from GADN’s G7 engagement in advocating for the adoption of feminist alternatives in 2022 and 2023. It suggests further thoughts and recommendations for improving feminist cooperation within Women 7 (W7) across issues such as timeframes; advocacy; feminist representation and movement building.
Read MoreJune 2023
Briefing: This briefing explores whether the World Bank’s Invest in Childcare initiative is an adequate vehicle for donor funds aimed at achieving gender equality and responding to the care crisis.
Read MoreMay 2023
Response: The 2023 G7 Leaders’ Communique included some positive language on gender equality, including the need to address structural barriers and resist attempts to rollback women’s rights. However, it remained light on action and funding commitments.
Read MoreJune 2022
Response: The G7 Leaders’ Summit signposts language and initiatives that shape future international negotiations. This year’s Communique includes language on gender-equal global recovery, the importance of care, structural barriers to equality faced by women in all their diversity, and even mentioned feminist foreign policies. But it falls short in implementation, failing to support new measures on vaccine equity, debt cancellation or progressive global taxation.
Read MoreSeptember 2021
Briefing: The G7’s announcement, in June 2021, of a new deal to tax multinational corporations was met with a combination of enthusiasm and scepticism. This paper seeks to assess the G7’s tax proposal and its potential impacts on African countries, including its likely consequences for women’s rights.
Read MoreJune 2021
Response: Following the conclusion of the G7 Summit today, G7 Leaders released their final Communique. In a joint response, the co-chairs of this year’s Women 7 (W7) - GADN and GAPS - raise concerns that the Communique fails to adequately address gender equality concerns and does not provide the vital financial commitments required.
Read MoreJune 2021
Response: UK charities, alongside GADN and GAPS - co-chairs of this year’s Women 7 (W7) - warn that the UK is likely to lose its global leadership role on gender equality if it fails to include the Gender Equality Advisory Council’s recommendations as part of the final G7 agreement.
Read MoreMay 2021
Response: As co-chairs of this year’s W7, GADN and GAPS’ submission to the IDC looks at the UK Government’s strategy and process in making the aid cuts while holding the G7 Presidency. It considers the likely impact of the cuts on gender equality and women’s rights and concludes with a set of recommendations for the UK Government.
Read MoreApril 2021
Communique: Following the W7 Summit, the final Communique has now been released. It outlines the key priority areas for the G7 to commit to and resource in order to address long-standing gender inequalities as well as help fulfil women and girls’ rights.
Read MoreApril 2021
Event: On 21–22 April 2021, the W7 Summit brought together feminist experts, activists and practitioners from G7 countries and all around the world to amplify the voices, perspectives and leadership of those not commonly included in the G7 forum. Participants collaborated on proposals for the G7 and agreed on concrete and meaningful actions in pursuit of gender justice. Selected recordings from the event’s speakers are now available.
Read MoreFebruary 2021
Members’ Meeting: 2021 is a critical year for global gender advocacy, particularly with the UK hosting both the G7 and COP26, the fulfilment of the Generation Equality Forum and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. GADN’s February members’ meeting introduced GADN members to some of these key global processes and developments with the UK government and provided a space for further discussion.
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