Beginning in 2007, the Feminist Task Force of the Global Call to Action against Poverty (FTF-GCAP) launched a series of international Women’s Tribunals on poverty to highlight the plight of women living in poverty around the world. The Tribunals served to inform and present testimony on the conditions of women in different regions around the world. The documentation and testimony were used to put pressure on local officials and national governments to improve the lives of and increase services for women.
This report presents the finding of the New York City Tribunal which calls for systemic changes to end poverty. The findings were presented to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN General Assembly on the occasion of the High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals held on September 25, 2008. The verdicts of this, as in the other Tribunals, arrive at the same general conclusion: the eradication of poverty cannot succeed without equality and justice for women.
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