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    Feminists Demand End Of UN Women’s Partnership With Blackrock, Inc.

    To: 
    Sima Sami Bahous, UN Women Executive Director,

    Åsa Regnér, UN Women Deputy Executive Director for Policy, Programme, Civil Society and Intergovernmental Support; 

    Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director for UN Coordination, Partnerships, Resources and Sustainability

     

    Subject: UN Women’s MoU with BlackRock

     

    Dear Ms Bahous, Ms Regnér, Ms Bhatia,

    We write to you on behalf of the undersigned feminist organizations, networks, constituencies and individuals, all of which are committed to ensuring that the United Nations delivers on international agreements on gender equality, SDG 5 and women’s human rights. We are dismayed to hear that on May 25th, 2022, UN Women announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with BlackRock, Inc. “to cooperate in promoting the growth of gender lens investing”. The declaration is dissonant, in view of BlackRock’s well-known record of prioritizing profits over human rights or environmental integrity, to a degree that meets precisely the Secretary-General’s characterisation of ‘morally bankrupt’ global finance institutions as being amongst the chief threats to human equality and planetary integrity. Gendered historical and structural inequalities ensure that women and people who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination are the ones who suffer the harshest consequences of the social, economic, ecological and political impact of the work of asset management firms that concentrate the world’s wealth into investments in fossil fuels, military and civilian weapons, and sovereign debt. In a time of climate, environmental, health, political and economic crises, a partnership with an entity that is actively undermining international commitments to advance sustainable development, is a serious aberration. It departs from the human rights principles of the UN, from the SDGs priorities of building equality, peace, and sustainable development, and from UN Women’s mandate to promote gender equality.

    Civil society watchdog groups consistently identify BlackRock as among the worst performers on corporate accountability. Its climate and socially-destructive investments — particularly significant in impact because of the massive component they represent of BlackRock’s portfolio — have been called out by activists, including Indigenous leaders. Aware of the optics, BlackRock has attempted to ‘greenwash’ itself by acknowledging the seriousness of climate change – in a move that the New York Times has condemned as ‘climate hypocrisy’ that is intentionally misleading; worse than climate denial. 

    The recently-announced partnership with UN Women suggests that UN Women has been recruited to BlackRock’s image-cleansing efforts – this time it is seeking to ‘pinkwash’ itself. It is hard to reach any other conclusion from the May 25 press release. A joint interest in ‘gender lens investment’ is offered to explain the partnership with no explanation of what this means, nor why BlackRock is the best interlocutor for this effort, nor whether it would require BlackRock to divest from the many industries it supports that exacerbate gender inequality (through, for instance, gendered job segregation and segmentation, gendered pay gaps, let alone gender-specific impacts of small arms proliferation and ecological destruction). If this is a ‘partnership’, it looks like it works in just one direction. It gives BlackRock a veneer of feminist approval that it clearly does not merit. Given BlackRock’s phenomenal size and influence (reportedly managing ten trillion USD) in assets, it is not unreasonable to assert that this UN Women partnership also gives a feminist imprimateur to the version of neoliberal global capitalism that is condemned by the SG. This crisis-prone speculation-based capitalism, spawning grotesque income inequalities, has also been linked to misogynistic neo-populism and entrenched poverty for many women, particularly those from ethnic or racial minorities, marginalized sexualities, and female-headed households. 

    To substantiate our concerns, we list here just a few examples of BlackRock practices of extreme concern that directly contradict feminist social and economic change agendas:

    Fossil fuels

    In 2021, contradicting declarations that BlackRock would divest from fossil fuels (it is one of the world’s biggest investors in the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel companies), it put $85bn of assets managed into coal companies, including those seeking to identify and exploit new coal assets, breaching the decisive climate action required by the Paris Agreement. The Working Group III report, “Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on 4 April 2022, highlighted the need for a dramatic shift away from fossil-fuels, gas and coal-based economies. Just one month later, UN Women’s partnership with BlackRock was announced, with no reference to BlackRock’s massive fossil fuel portfolio, nor of the differentiated impacts the environmental crises have on the human rights of women and other marginalized groups who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.

    In a wider manner, BlackRock also invests in projects that are harmful to environmental integrity as a whole. For instance, BlackRock is a major investor in deforestation projects, destroying the tropical rainforests to invest in palm oil plantations in Papua New Guinea, while human rights abuses have been documented in parallel. 

    External private debt

    BlackRock is the leading known holder of external private debt in the global South. In Zambia, it is the largest private bondholder, but it refused a request by Zambia to suspend debt payments in 2020 and has not offered to restructure the debt. BlackRock’s holdings of Zambia’s bonds were $220 million as of February 2022, over half of which were purchased during the high stress first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It could make a 110% profit on this debt, if it is fully paid. Meanwhile, cuts planned by the government of Zambia in 2022–26 are equivalent to five times its annual health budget, putting women and other marginalized groups at risk as they depend on public health services and also form a large portion of frontline health workers.

    Private creditors such as Blackrock and Ashmore hold 47% of Sri Lanka’s debt via bonds that were issued post Sri Lanka’s civil war; the bondholder, Hamilton Reserve Bank, has sued Sri Lanka in the state of New York for the full payment of principal and interest, as it considers that the recent debt default has been orchestrated by the government. New York State’s legislature recently passed a bill to ensure that private creditors can’t use courts to get better settlements than bilateral government creditors. Blackrock is now part of a bondholder group that is negotiating a restructuring with the Sri Lankan government. Sri Lanka is currently in a severe crisis, with food shortages and fuel rationing, both of which impact women and girls disproportionately, with women and other marginalized groups experiencing job losses first. This takes place in a context where male household members’ food and health needs tend to be prioritized, while care and domestic work burdens increase.

    Labor rights

    BlackRock has voted against every single shareholder resolution relating to labor rights where it has shareholdings, including resolutions relating to corporate accountability for sexual harassment and closing the gender pay gap as well as against 47% of climate resolutions. In contrast, it has voted for every resolution that the Committee for Workers Capital (the global committee representing workers interests in pension funds), has advised voting against. BlackRock has investments where child labour has been exposed.

    Militarization 

    Through its investment strategies, BlackRock is also a major supporter of the military industrial complex. It has major investments with civilian gun manufacturers such as Smith and Wesson and Sturm, Ruger, & Company (which produces the Ruger mini-semi automatic 14 rifle among other weapons). It has holdings in Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman (these are identified by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) as among the largest weapons sales companies globally),  Axon (which produces tasers), and Elbit (which provides logistical support for weapons delivery). High level executives in BlackRock serve on the corporate boards of various military suppliers and vice versa. These investments build a gruesome connection between BlackRock and wartime violence and displacement, which have severe and highly gendered consequences, as well as with civilian gun deaths and the militarization of the police. 

    UN Women’s mandate includes a focus on “building sustainable peace” and working to prevent armed conflicts, as well as a central concern with ending the global pandemic of violence against women, violence that is significantly amplified by small arms proliferation. For UN Women to partner with a corporation that is so extensively involved in profiting from militarism seems contradictory at best, and potentially highly damaging to its credibility in the Women Peace and Security arena. 

    Moving forward: 

    Rescind the BlackRock partnership, set standards for future private sector partnerships, involve feminist civil society in UN Women governance.

    The partnership between BlackRock and UN Women presents serious and potentially irreparable risks to UN Women’s reputation. It gives UN Women the job of sanitizing the reputation of an asset management institution whose investments have contributed to some degree to climate catastrophe, the economic immiseration of women and other groups marginalized because of sexuality, gender, race, and class, and the proliferation of weapons and by association, the increased recourse to political violence in unstable politics. To see the world’s leading institution for the defense of women’s rights in league with an enabler of patriarchal dominance, violence, and ecological collapse, with not a word directed to critiquing or reforming BlackRock, could spell the end of UN Women’s credibility as a gender equality institution. 

    We urge UN Women immediately to rescind and repudiate this partnership, to honor its mandate to promote the highest standards of human rights, gender equality, environmental integrity and the wellbeing of people, as outlined in the SDGs targets. We are aware that Member States are not fulfilling their financial commitments to fund the UN, or, even worse, orienting their contributions to serve narrow political purposes. This is a driver of the corporate capture of the UN, weakening its capacity to face the multilateral crises of our times. UN Women has made attempts in the past to partner with the private sector, with companies such as Uber or Coca Cola, with poor results. Other parts of the UN have been tempted to do the same; OHCHR for instance, made an agreement with Microsoft. These efforts have failed to deliver either for the UN or for the populations they ostensibly serve. 

    In a larger manner, the trend of a corporate capture of the UN is largely seen in the Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda, which places priority on a “networked multilateralism” with several multi-stakeholder proposals. Although more stakeholders participate in various processes, responsibility of governance and accountability to advancing the goals of the UN must remain with Member States. While the UN welcomes private donors, their influence is carried to shape programme priorities. Multistakeholderism and networked multilateralism assert duty bearers, rights holders, and corporate interests are all equal stakeholders and in doing so, obscures the power imbalances that exist among these groups. Corporations, unlike governments, are accountable to their shareholders with a view to increase profit. This, in many cases, is directly in conflict with the transformation needed to protect people and the planet. One example of this in Our Common Agenda is the proposal for a multistakeholder digital technology track in preparation for the 2023 Summit for the Future to agree on a Global Digital Compact to be informed by the existing High Level Panel of Experts on Digital Cooperation, co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Jack Ma – two members of the corporate sector that have conflicting interests with the public good. How can global corporations be trusted to recommend the strict regulation needed of digital technologies? 

    The UN should not need to be reminded of its mandate by observers. Its governance systems should incorporate civil society leaders to help prevent these mistakes. For this reason, we recommend that feminist organizations should have formal seats in UN’s advisory groups and leadership (including to its Executive Board). 

    It is essential and urgent that across the United Nations System, as entities turn to the private sector for funding and services, standards are set for transparency and accountability, based on human rights principles and aligned with the UN’s normative goals and standards. Moreover, all partnerships should be underpinned by an understanding of the UN as the primary duty bearer internationally, and Member States as duty bearers first and foremost. Any partner whose operations undermine human rights and planetary integrity is inherently in conflict with the interests and mission of the United Nations at large. 

    In solidarity,

    1. #Whispers 
    2. Abibinsroma Foundation
    3. ACADHOSHA
    4. ACTG
    5. Action Contre l'Impunité pour les Droits Humains, ACIDH 
    6. Action for Youth Development Uganda ACOYDE 
    7. ActionAid Cambodia
    8. ActionAid France
    9. ActionAid International
    10. Actionaid Senegal
    11. ActionAid Tanzania
    12. Adéquations
    13. African Centre for Biodiversity
    14. African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
    15. African Indigenous Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development (AIFES)
    16. African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)
    17. Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA)
    18. Agroecology Research Action Collective
    19. Aid/Watch
    20. Aidos
    21. AIDS-Free World
    22. Akina Mama wa Afrika
    23. Alliance for Future Generations - Fiji
    24. Almena Cooperativa Feminista,SCCL
    25. AMECE
    26. American Jewish World Service
    27. Amigas da Terra (Galicia)
    28. Amigos da Terra Brasil /Friends of the Earth Brazil
    29. Amigos de la Tierra (Spain)
    30. ANND
    31. Asia Development Alliance
    32. Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy
    33. Asia Indigenous Women's Network
    34. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
    35. Asia Pacific Women's Watch (APWW)
    36. Asociacion Ciudadana por los Derechos Humanos
    37. ASOCIACIÓN SALUD Y FAMILIA
    38. Associació de Drets Sexuals i Reproductius 
    39. Association Éco Tourisme Environnement 
    40. Association Equality - Wardah Boutros 
    41. Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)
    42. Association For Promotion Sustainable Development
    43. Association For Promotion Sustainable Development
    44. Association Jeunes Agriculteurs (AJA)
    45. Association of Women of Southern Europe AFEM
    46. Association pour la Conservation et la Protection des Ecosystèmes des Lacs et l’Agriculture Durable
    47. Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance 
    48. Avtonomi Akadimia
    49. AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development)
    50. Bangladesh Indigenous Women's Network
    51. Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS)
    52. Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad
    53. Barguna nari Jagoran kormochuchi JAGO NARI
    54. Beautiful Hearts Against Sexual Violence NGO
    55. Beijing-SDG 5 Facilitating Group
    56. Beyond Beijing Committee Nepal
    57. BIMBA Inc.
    58. Biowatch South Africa
    59. Biswas Nepal
    60. Black Sea Women's Club
    61. Bootblack
    62. Bretton Woods Project
    63. Campaign of Campaigns 
    64. Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
    65. CCFD-Terre Solidaire
    66. CELLULE ASSOCIATIVE DES FEMMES ACTIVES POUR LA GOUVERNANCE, LES DROITS HUMAINS ET LE BIEN-ETRE (CAFAGB)
    67. Center for Advancement of Public Policy
    68. Center for Climate Change & Sustainable Development (3CSD)
    69. Center for Legislative Development 
    70. Center for Women's Global Leadership
    71. Centre des Dames Mouride (CDM)
    72. CENWOR - Centre for Women's Research
    73. Chirapaq, Center of Inidgenous Cultures of Peru and Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas- ECMIA 
    74. CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality
    75. Chosun University
    76. CIEDUR
    77. Citizen News Service (CNS)
    78. Civil Society FfD Group
    79. Civil Society SDGs Campaign GCAP Zambia 
    80. Climate Families NYC 
    81. CLRA
    82. CNCD-11.11.11
    83. Coastal Development Partnership
    84. Collectif Sénégalais des Africaines pour la Promotion de l'Education Relative à l'Environnement (COSAPERE)
    85. Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres CLADEM 
    86. COMMUNITY AND FAMILY AID FOUNDATION-GHANA
    87. Community Development Services (CDS)
    88. Community Initiatives for Development in Pakistan 
    89. Confédération paysanne 
    90. Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd 
    91. Congregation of the Mission
    92. Consumidores Conscientes
    93. Coordinadora de la Mujer
    94. Corporate Europe Observatory
    95. CREA
    96. Creación Positiva
    97. CSO Youth FfD Constituency
    98. Cultivate!
    99. Czech Social Watch Coalition
    100. Debt Justice Norway
    101. Debt Justice UK
    102. Debt Observatory in Globalisation
    103. DECA, EQUIPO PUEBLO, AC
    104. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
    105. Dhaatri Trust
    106. Diálogo 2000-Jubileo Sur Argentina 
    107. Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality 
    108. Dones No Estàndards
    109. Eategrity
    110. Ecojustice Ireland Community Interest Company
    111. Ekumenická akademie (Ecumenical Academy)
    112. Ekvilib Institute
    113. Elige Red de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos, A. C.
    114. EMPOWER INDIA
    115. ENABLE THE DISABLE ACTION, EDA DPO
    116. Endorois Indigenous Women Empowerment Network (EIWEN)
    117. EnGen Collaborative
    118. EnrDHadas - Tejiendo feminismos por el Mundo
    119. Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
    120. Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia
    121. ERA - LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey 
    122. Eurodad - European Network on Debt and Development
    123. EXTINCTION REBELLION CAMEROON (XR CAMEROON)
    124. Feminist Dalit Organization
    125. Feminist Hiking Collective
    126. Feministas en Holanda
    127. FIAN Belgium
    128. FIAN Germany
    129. FIAN International
    130. FIAN Switzerland
    131. Fiji Women Rights Movement (FWRM) 
    132. FiLiA
    133. Financial Transparency Coalition
    134. Focus Association for Sustainable Development
    135. Focus on the Global South
    136. Fokupers (Forum Komunikasaun ba Feto Timor Lorosa'e)
    137. FOKUS - Forum for Women and Development
    138. Fondation Eboko
    139. Food Sovereignty Alliance, India 
    140. FORO DE MUJERES POR LA IGUALDAD DE OPORTUNIDADES
    141. Forum for Equitable Development
    142. Fós Feminista
    143. Franciscans International
    144. Fresh Eyes
    145. Friends of the Earth Africa
    146. Friends of The Earth Australia 
    147. Friends of the Earth International
    148. Friends of the Earth US
    149. FUNDACIÓ ASSISTÈNCIA I GESTIÓ INTEGRAL
    150. Fundacion Arcoiris por el respeto a la diversidad sexual
    151. Fundacion para Estudio e investigacion de la Mujer 
    152. Fundeps
    153. GABRIELA
    154. GCAP Italia
    155. genanet - focal point gender, environment, sustainability
    156. Gender Action
    157. Gender and Development for Cambodia
    158. Gender and Development in Practice (GADIP)
    159. Gender and Development Network (GADN)
    160. Gender at Work
    161. GenderCC SA
    162. GESTOS
    163. Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
    164. Global Alliance for Tax Justice
    165. Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Tax and Gender Working Group
    166. Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
    167. Global Forest Coalition
    168. Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
    169. Global Justice Now
    170. GLOBAL MEDIA FOUNDATION
    171. Global Migration and Health Initiative
    172. Global Network of Sex Work Projects 
    173. Global Social Justice
    174. Global Women's Institute
    175. Good Citizenry 
    176. Good Health Community Programmes
    177. Gramya Resource Centre for Women
    178. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
    179. Green Advocates International (Liberia)
    180. GroundWork Trust
    181. Haki Nawiri Afrika 
    182. Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
    183. Halley Movement Coalition
    184. Health and Environment Justice Support (HEJSupport)
    185. Heñói - Centro de Estudios y Promoción de la Democracia, los Derechos Humanos y la Sostenibilidad Socio-ambiental
    186. Himalayan Community Resource Development Center
    187. Hope for Kenya Slum Adolescents Initiative
    188. Housing and Land Rights Network - Habitat International Coalition (HIC-HLRN)
    189. Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP)
    190. IBON International
    191. ICW-CIF
    192. ILGA Asia
    193. ILGA World
    194. Indian Christian Women’s Movement
    195. Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples North East Zone (ICITP-NEZ)
    196. Indigenous Environmental Network
    197. Indigenous Women Empowerment Network
    198. Indigenous Women's Network of Thailand (IWNT)
    199. Indigenous Youth Exchange Africa
    200. Iniciativas para la Mujer Oaxaqueña 
    201. Initiative for Right View (IRV)
    202. Institut Vinetum so.p.Etri group
    203. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
    204. Institute for International Women’s Rights Manitoba
    205. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Regional (ICTER)
    206. Integrated Social Development Effort (ISDE) Bangladesh
    207. International Accountability Project
    208. International Alliance of Women (IAW)
    209. International Association for Feminist Economics
    210. International Federation of Business and Professional Women
    211. International IPMSDL
    212. International Service for Human Rights
    213. International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
    214. Ipas
    215. Ipas Ethiopia
    216. IPPF
    217. IT for Change on behalf of People’s Working Group on Multistakeholderism 
    218. ITUC
    219. IWDA
    220. Joseph Ayo Babalola University 
    221. JPIC KALIMANTAN
    222. Justiça Ambiental - JA!
    223. Justice Institute Guyana 
    224. Keepers of the Circle
    225. Kenya Female Advisory Organization
    226. Khpal Kore Organization
    227. Kolektiv Z
    228. Kopila-Nepal
    229. KOTHOWAIN (Vulnerable Peoples Development Organization) Bandarban HillTract, BANGLADESH
    230. KULU-Women and Development (KULU)
    231. L' Associacio de Drets Sexuals i Reproductius
    232. La Via Campesina
    233. Ladlad Caraga Inc 
    234. Landless Peoples Movement SA
    235. LASNET (Latino American Solidarity Network)
    236. LATINDADD
    237. Les Amis de la Terre Togo
    238. Let's Do It Kenya
    239. Like Mountains
    240. Lithuanian NGDO Platform
    241. Lumiere Synergie pour le Developpement
    242. Ma'al Center for Consultations,Training and Human Development 
    243. Madhira Institute
    244. MADRE
    245. MAELA México
    246. Main_Network
    247. Major Group for Children and Youth
    248. MAKAAM
    249. Marie-Schlei-Verein e. V.
    250. MARIJÀN | Young feminist organization 
    251. Martha Justice Ministry, Sisters of St. Martha, Antigonish
    252. Mazingira Institute
    253. Mbeleni Foundation
    254. Mecanismo Sicuedad Civil CEPAL
    255. MenEngage Global Alliance
    256. Mi Organization
    257. My people and culture association 
    258. MY World Mexico
    259. MYSU- Mujer y Salud en Uruguay
    260. Nagorik Uddyog
    261. National Campaign for Sustainable Development Nepal
    262. National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
    263. National Council of Women of Canada
    264. National Indigenous Women Forum
    265. Natural Justice
    266. Nawi Collective
    267. NeverEndingFood Permaculture
    268. NEW HOPE FOR THE POOR
    269. NGO Forum on ADB
    270. Nigerian Women Agro Allied Farmers Association
    271. North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS)
    272. Nouvelle Orientation pour la promotion du Développement Durable en Afrique (NODDA)
    273. OBSERVATORIO UNIVERSITARIO DE SEGURIDAD ALIMENTARIA Y NUTRICIONAL DEL ESTADO DE GUANAJUATO (OUSANEG)
    274. Omar Jouville & Company Advocates| Advocacy and Awareness Centre Initiative (AAC-Kenya)
    275. Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
    276. Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC)
    277. Pariwartankhabar.com 
    278. Paropakar Primary Health Care Centre PPUK 
    279. Participatory Research & Action Network- PRAAN
    280. Passionists International
    281. People's Health Movement
    282. People's Health Movement-Canada
    283. Peperusha Binti 
    284. Persons Against Non-State Torture 
    285. Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP)
    286. Pesticide Action Network International
    287. Pesticide Action Network North America
    288. PHM Kenya
    289. PILUPU
    290. Plataforma Bolivia Libre de Transgenicos
    291. PLATAFORMA NACIONAL DA MULHER E RAPARIGA
    292. COOPERATIVISTAS/AMPCM - MOZAMBIQUE
    293. PROGRESS 
    294. Project Organising Development Education and Research
    295. Prospera INWF
    296. Public Services International
    297. PUEAA-UNAM
    298. RAÍCES, Análisis de Género para el Desarrollo
    299. Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia Inc
    300. Rapad Maroc 
    301. Reacción Climática 
    302. Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ)
    303. RECODEFSENEGAL 
    304. Red por los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en México
    305. ReFocus Consulting
    306. Regions Refocus
    307. REMAC
    308. RIPESS Intercontinental
    309. RITES Forum 
    310. RUIDO Photo
    311. Rural Area Development Programme (RADP)
    312. RURAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION “ALGA”
    313. SACBTA
    314. SADED NEPAL
    315. SAFIGI Outreach Foundation (Safety First for Girls)
    316. Sanklapa Darchula Nepal (Sankalpa)
    317. SCIAF
    318. SEDRA-FPFE
    319. Sexual Rights Initiative
    320. Shirkat Gah - Women's Resource Centre
    321. Siempre ong
    322. SILAKA CAMBODIA 
    323. Sisters of Charity Federation
    324. Social Watch
    325. Society for International Development
    326. Solidarité des Femmes pour le Développement intégral (SOFEDI)
    327. Solution Research Point
    328. Soroptimist International
    329. South Asia Forum for Human Rights
    330. South Feminist Futures
    331. Stop the Bleeding Campaign 
    332. SUHODE Foundation
    333. Sukaar Welfare Organization 
    334. Sustainable Development Council
    335. Tagoloan Gender Advocacy Group
    336. Tamazight Women's Movement 
    337. Tanggol Bayi 
    338. Tax Justice Network
    339. Tax Justice Network Africa
    340. Temple of Understanding
    341. The European Women's Lobby
    342. The New Environmental Justice Solutions
    343. The Scottish Women's Convention 
    344. Third World Network
    345. TORANG TRUST
    346. Trade Collective
    347. Transnational Institute
    348. Trócaire
    349. Turkish Council of Women 
    350. UBINIG (Policy Research for Development Alternative)
    351. UFAP
    352. UNANIMA International 
    353. Universidad Nacional de Colombia 
    354. University of Sindh 
    355. UnPoison
    356. Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights
    357. Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean
    358. Vereda Themis
    359. Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC)
      Wada Na Todo Abhiyan
    360. War Resisters League
    361. Water Justice and Gender
    362. WECF International
    363. WEDO
    364. Wemos
    365. WIDE Austria - Network for Women´s Rights and Feminist Perspectives in Development
    366. WIDE+ (Women In Development Europe+)
    367. WILPF Lebanon
    368. Witness Radio
    369. WO=MEN
    370. Womankind Worldwide
    371. Women and Gender Constituency of the UNFCCC
    372. Women and Law in Southern Africa
    373. Women and Modern World Social Charitable Center
    374. Women committee in general federation of Jordanian trade unions
    375. Women Deliver
    376. Women for Women's Human Rights - New Ways
    377. Women with Disabilities Development Foundation (WDDF)
    378. Women Working Group (WWG)
    379. Women's Budget Group
    380. Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
    381. Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
    382. Women's Health and Equal Rights Initiative
    383. Women's Health in Women's Hands CHC
    384. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
    385. Women's International Peace Centre
    386. Women's Leadership and Training Programme
    387. Women's Major Group on Sustainable Development
    388. Women's Rights Caucus (WRC)
    389. Women's Support and Information Centre NPO
    390. Women's Working Group on Financing for Development
    391. Women’s Intercultural Network
    392. Women´s Major Group UNEA-UNEP
    393. Womens Intercultural Network
    394. WOMENVAI
    395. WoMin African Alliance
    396. World Economy, Ecology and Development - WEED
    397. WREPA
    398. Y+ Global
    399. Young Feminist Europe
    400. Young Peace Builders - YPB
    401. Youth and Women for Opportunities Uganda
    402. Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights

      Individuals
    403. Abena D. Oduro
    404. Abida
    405. Abou Farman
    406. Adeline Parenty
    407. Adrienne Roberts
    408. Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos
    409. Ahmad Awad
    410. Aida A. Hozic
    411. Aideé Tassinari
    412. Ajit Zacharias
    413. Alba Brugueras
    414. Alexandria Gordon
    415. Ali Yass
    416. Allison Kermode
    417. Alonna Despain
    418. Ammu Abraham
    419. Ana Portocarrero
    420. Andrea Carlise
    421. Andreas Schulz
    422. Angeline Annesteus
    423. Anil Kumar 
    424. Ann Edqvist
    425. Ann S Brighton
    426. Anna Hawken
    427. Anne Marie Goetz
    428. Anne Runyan
    429. Anne-Emanuelle Birn
    430. Anthony Davis
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    432. Aphline Yogo 
    433. April Porteria
    434. Archana Dhakal 
    435. Arlene McLaren
    436. Armagan Gezici
    437. Asha Herten-Crabb
    438. Aurora d'Agostino
    439. Aurore 
    440. Ayshka Najib
    441. Ayuba Abukari
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    445. Belinda Roman
    446. Bengi Akbulut
    447. Bette Levy
    448. BINA AGARWAL
    449. Bina Pradhan
    450. Binti Fataki Francine 
    451. Bishelly Elias
    452. Brooke A Ackerly
    453. Bruce Pietrykowski
    454. Busisiwe Mgangxela
    455. Carla Hoinkes
    456. Carly Paul
    457. Carmen Diana Deere
    458. Carol Cohn
    459. Carola Mejia
    460. Caroline Dommen
    461. Caroline Hossein
    462. Caroline Owashaba 
    463. Carsta Neuenroth
    464. Cassandra Guarino
    465. Cecilia García Ruiz
    466. Chantal Clement
    467. Christina Gordon
    468. Chuma Mgcoyi
    469. Clara Winkler
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    471. Claudio Schuftan
    472. Corina Rodriguez Enriquez
    473. Craig N. Murphy
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    476. Daptnhe Cuevas
    477. Darini Rajasingham Senanayake
    478. David Hallowes
    479. Deanna Marie Homer
    480. Deirdre A Carney
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    482. Diana Nabiruma
    483. Diane Elson
    484. Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi
    485. Dina Passman
    486. Diyana Yahaya
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    488. Dr Jasmine Gideon
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    490. Drucilla K Barker
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    494. Elissa Braunstein
    495. Elke Krasny 
    496. Emi Tant
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    498. Emma Burgisser
    499. Erica Di Ruggiero
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    506. Gabriele Koehler
    507. Gail James
    508. Gbene Ali Malik
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    512. Gina Cortés Valderrama
    513. Gisela Duetting
    514. Grace Areba
    515. Gunseli Berik
    516. Harris Gleckman
    517. Heidi Hartmann
    518. Helle Q Joensen
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    530. Jen Marchbank
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    532. Jennifer Clapp
    533. Jennifer Cohen
    534. Jennifer Lipenga 
    535. Jerome De Henau
    536. Ji Hyun Park
    537. Joan French
    538. Joan Normington 
    539. Joni Seager 
    540. José Miguel
    541. Josephine Wangari
    542. Josie Marsh
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    552. Kath Deakin
    553. Katharina Glaab
    554. Katherine Farhar 
    555. Kerry McLean
    556. Kimberly Christensen
    557. Klara A
    558. Laerke Groennebaek
    559. Laura McKeeman
    560. Laura Pereira
    561. Laura Sjoberg
    562. Lauren Kolyn
    563. Laurriette Rota
    564. Lavinia Steinfort
    565. Lays Ushirobira
    566. Leena Patel
    567. Leith L Dunn
    568. Lénica Reyes Zúñiga
    569. Lesley Johnston
    570. Lesslie Ann Valencia
    571. Lewis Emmerton 
    572. Liane I Schalatek
    573. Liliana Buitrago A
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    575. Lisa Philippo
    576. Lisa VeneKlasen
    577. Liz Riopelle
    578. Lorena Cotza
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    580. Lourdes Beneria
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    598. Markéta Kos Mottlová
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    607. Mathilde
    608. Maximilian Sprengholz
    609. Mayyada Abu Jaber 
    610. Melanie Sommervill
    611. Menka Goundan
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    613. Mona Mishra
    614. Morgan Richards-Melamdir 
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    616. Muriel Mac-Seing
    617. Myriam Paredes
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    624. Nancy W. Singham
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    626. Nargiza Ludgate
    627. Nata Duvvury
    628. Natalie Jones
    629. Natasha Umuhoza
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    632. Nettie Wiebe
    633. Niharika
    634. Nina Isabella Moeller
    635. Noelia Méndez Santolaria
    636. Norea Manyika Gutu
    637. Norma Enríquez Riascos
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    639. Olga Louise Petersen Ege
    640. Olive Uwamariya
    641. Ommey Nahida
    642. Paddy Quick
    643. Pamela del Canto
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    645. Patricia E. Perkins
    646. Patricia Schulz 
    647. Paula Beltgens
    648. Paula Herrera Idárraga
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    652. Polly Meeks
    653. Poul Wisborg
    654. Prabha Khosla
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    656. Professor Jacqui True
    657. Professor Juanita Elias
    658. Rachel Wynberg
    659. Radhika Balakrishnan
    660. Raj Patel
    661. Ramya Vijaya
    662. Randy Albelda
    663. Rania Lee Khalil
    664. Renee Adams
    665. Renée Hunter
    666. Renuka Bhat
    667. Rita Schäfer
    668. Rizalina Amesola
    669. Rohini Hensman
    670. Ronald Labonte
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    672. S. Charusheela
    673. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
    674. Samanmala Dorabawila
    675. Samuel Sabuli
    676. Sanam Amin
    677. Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake
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    685. Shazia Z Rafi
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    687. Shewli Kumar
    688. Shiney Varghese
    689. Shirin Rai
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    692. Sirisha Naidu 
    693. Smita Ramnarain
    694. Smriti Rao
    695. Sofie Bruus Hansen
    696. Soma Marik
    697. Stephanie Urdang
    698. Sulochana Suresh Pednekar
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    701. Supriya Madangarli
    702. Susan Himmelweit
    703. Susanne Zwingel
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