By: Susan O’Malley
IFBPWC UN Representative, NGO CSW/NY, Chair ex officio
Professor Emerita, City University of New York
UNChair@nfbpwc.orgsusanomalley4@gmail.com

 

The UN devoted the weekend of September 16-17 to discussing the state of the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how Member States and NGOs can scale up their attempts to fulfill them by 2030.

Many promises were made by Member States, both financial and actions to be taken. The object is to “leave nobody behind.” In fact, though, COVID has limited the progress of fulfilling the SDGs. The UN Sustainable Development Goals Report for 2023 is available on the UN website.

Attending the Action Weekend were 3 IFBPW members: Tess Mateo, Thalita Veronica Goncalves e Silva from Brazil, and Susan O’Malley. 

Tess Mateo is Senior Advisor to AQAL Capital and the United Nations on Gender and Climate; and Managing Director of CXCatalysts, which develops public private partnerships in clean energy, water, sustainable food, and health.  She is an IFBPW UN Representative.

Thalita Veronica Gonclaves e Silva, from Brazil, is a Public State Defender (lawyer), and a member of the IFBPW Human Rights Committee. 

Susan O’Malley is Professor Emerita, English, City University of NY, past chair of NGO CSW/NY, and an IFBPW UN Representative. She is also the UN Representative for Widows for Peace Through Democracy and plays the cello in the UN Orchestra.

In the photo, we are in Conference 4 at the UN just before the Closing Meeting in the ECOSOC Chamber on 17 September.  Susan is in the blue Climate Action tee-shirt because she had just come from the Eliminate Fossil Fuels March.

This photo is of Patricia L. Bradley (Women’s Missionary Society AMEC), Beth Dehghan (WomenNC), and Susan O’Malley (IFBPW) who represented many NGOs Rally.