This Communique is addressed to G7 leaders, Ministers, and policy makers. It builds on and consolidates the Women 7’s (W7) Communiques from the past seven years and includes updates from activists around the world.
The challenges facing today’s world are enormous and urgent. Now is the moment for G7 leaders to step up and act.
The Communique calls on G7 leaders to seize this global moment by adopting a transformative agenda that guarantees human rights, upholds gender justice, and protects the bodily autonomy and dignity of all women, girls, and non-binary people.
This includes:
- Increasing ambition to both systematically and explicitly ensure attention to women’s human rights, LGBTIQ+ rights and gender justice issues across all G7 discussions and address gender equality priorities as a key standalone agenda. It is not ‘either/or.’ Commitments to women’s human rights and gender equality are empty if the analysis and commitments are not explicitly coherent across all major discussions, documents, and priority areas.
- Recognizing that progress on gender justice is required to address today’s global challenges.
- Backing rhetoric with concrete commitments, actions and resources, both monetary and non-monetary (including resources for feminist movements, organizations and networks).
- Demonstrating leadership and policy coherence based on gender justice and universal human rights and fundamental freedoms both domestically and globally. In order to be credible, consistency across foreign and domestic policy areas is needed.
- Strengthening (and investing in) gender and age-disaggregated data in order to track and monitor change.
The Annex outlines specific recommendations for G7 leaders in the six areas: 1) Democracy and support for human rights; 2) Building just and equitable economies; 3) Climate justice; 4) Peace and security; 5) Emerging technology and 6) Accountability and financing. These recommendations draw on past W7 Communiqués and have been crowd sourced from feminist from around the world.
Signatories: Organizations
| Organization | Country |
|---|---|
| Organization of the Justice Campaign- OJC | Iraq |
| A world without chemical and biological weapons-www | Iraq-Nederland |
| AccessBC Campaign for free prescription contraception in BC | Canada |
| ACSA Cultural & Sport Association (ACSA) | Canada |
| Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes | Canada |
| AFE, Mongolia | Mongolia |
| Amplifying Impact | |
| Amputee Self help network Uganda-ASNU(ICBL-CMC member ) | Uganda |
| Animal People, Inc. | United States of America |
| Aotearoa New Zealand Campaign on Military Spending | New Zealand |
| Aotearoa New Zealand WPS National Network | New Zealand |
| ARCIGAY | ITALY |
| Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center | Japan |
| Association d’Aide à l’Education de l’Enfant Handicapé (AAEEH) | France |
| Association for Empowerment of Persons with Disability (AEPD) | Viet Nam |
| Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI) | Canada |
| Associazione di Solidarietà Donne per le Donne | United Kingdom |
| Balkan WASH network | North Macedonia |
| BC Society of Transition Houses (BCSTH) | Canada |
| Black-Manitobans Chamber of Commerce | Canada |
| BPW Germany e.V | Germany |
| Breaking the Silence on Domestic Violence | Canada |
| CAFAGB (Cellule Associatives des Femmes Actives pour la Gouvernance les Droits Humains et le Bien-être) | Cameroun |
| Campaña Colombiana Contra Minas/ Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines | Colombia |
| Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) | Canada |
| Canadian Unitarians For Social Justice | Canada |
| Canadian Women’s Foundation | Canada |
| CARE Canada | Canada |
| Carrefour des Femmes du Sud-Ouest de l’Ontario | Canada |
| Center for Countermeasures against Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents | Nigeria |
| Centre de développement et de la Promotion de la Femme | Tchad |
| Centre for Human Rights and Development | Mongolia |
| Centre for Social Intelligence | Canada |
| Child Care Now (Canada) | Canada |
| Conflict and Environment Observatory | UK |
| Cooperation Canada | Canada |
| Council for Responsible Social Media -Kenya | Kenya |
| Council for Responsible Social Media-Kenya | Kenya |
| Deutscher Frauenrat (National Council of German Women’s Organizations) | Germany |
| Development ability organization DAO | Afghanistan |
| Development And Ability Organization (DAO) | Afghanistan |
| Development and Peace- Caritas Canada | Canada |
| Domestic Violence Association of New Brunswick | Canada |
| ECPAT/SHELAC | GUATEMALA |
| Egale Canada (Chair of the Pride7 group) | Canada |
| End Poverty Regina | Canada |
| Ending Sexual Violence Association of Canada | Canada |
| Equality Fund | Canada |
| Equitas Centre international d’éducation aux droits humains | Canada |
| Fédération des femmes du Québec | Canada |
| Fédération des maisons d’hébergement pour femmes | Canada |
| Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec | Canada |
| Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) | Canada |
| Federation of Democratic Labour Unions | Mauritius |
| FemDev Consulting | Canada |
| Fora: Network for Change | Canada |
| Fòs Feminista | Lome |
| Fos Feminista Canada | Canada |
| Friends of Saskatoon Afforestation Areas | Canada |
| Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas Inc. | Canada |
| Fundación Estidione Investigación de la mujer | Argebtina |
| Fundación global | Argentina |
| Fundacion Multitudes | Chile/LAC |
| Gender and Development Network (GADN) | United Kingdom |
| Girls United For Human Rights | Pakistan |
| Global Thinking Foundation | Italy |
| Halley Movement Coalition | Mauritius |
| HAMAP-Humanitaire | France |
| Hidden Hero in each kid | North Macedonia |
| Hogan’s Alley Society | Canada |
| Human Environmental Association for Développement -HEAD | Lebanon |
| ILGA World | global |
| IMPACT Transforming Natural Resources Management | Canada |
| Indian Institute for Peace Disarmament & Environmental Protection | India |
| Individuell | Afghanistan/ live in Germany |
| International Center for Research on Women | USA |
| International Network of Liberal Women | The Netherlands |
| Italian Climate Network | |
| J-ALL | Japan |
| Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines | Japan |
| Japanese Association of International Women’s Rights (JAIWR) | Japan |
| JN Clarke Consulting | Canada |
| Journalists for Human Rights | North Macedonia |
| KAIROS Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives | Canada |
| Kaleidoscope Trust | United Kingdom |
| Kurdish organizations Network coalition for the International Criminal court (KONCICC) | Iraq |
| Kurdistan organizations Network to Abolish Nuclear and Mass Destruction Weapons-KONW | Iraq |
| Kurdistan without Genocide | Iraq |
| Legacies of War | USA |
| Life campaign to abolish the death sentence in Kurdistan | Iraq |
| Living in Community | Canada |
| LSVD+ – Federation Queer Diversity | Germany |
| Maison Interlude House Inc. | Canada |
| March For Our Planet | United States |
| MAURITIUS TRADE UNION CONGRESS | Mauritius |
| Michael Sasere Foundation | Nigeria |
| Minerva Foundation for BC Women | Canada |
| Mines Action Canada | Canada |
| MONASO | Mozambique |
| Mouvement pour l’autonomie dans l’enfantement | Canada |
| Muskoka Community Land Trust | Canada |
| National Association of Women and the Law | l’Association nationale Femmes et Droit | Canada |
| NAWO | India |
| Nijiiro Diversity | Japan |
| NMA Foundation – Bullyid App | Indonesia |
| Nobel Women’s Initiative | |
| Oasis Centre des femmes | Canada |
| OCASI- Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants | Canada |
| OFOGH | IRAN |
| One Future Collective | India |
| Organization Against Weapons of Mass Destruction in Kurdistan | Iraq |
| Otemae international university | japan |
| OurCause | United Kingdom/Bangladesh |
| Oxfam Canada | Canada |
| Oxfam-Québec | |
| PAX | Netherlands |
| Peace Movement Aotearoa | New Zealand |
| Peace Track Initiative (PTI) | Canada |
| PearlSpace Support Services Society | Canada |
| PEI Family Violence Prevention Services | Canada |
| Perú por el Desarme | Peru |
| Plan International | Canada |
| Psychological Responsiveness NGO | Mongolia |
| Psychological Responsiveness NGO, Mongolia | |
| Red Dot Foundation | India |
| REFACOF | SENEGAL |
| Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale | Canada |
| Reseau-Femmes du sud-ouest de l’Ontario | Canada |
| Results Canada | Résultats Canada | Canada |
| Sauti Salama | Kenya |
| Save the Children Canada | Canada |
| SEHLAC | Latin America |
| Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health (a project of Makeway) | Canada |
| Sisters of Jerop Initiative | Kenya |
| Somali Human Rights Association (SOHRA) | Somalia |
| Soroptimist International | Kenya |
| Soroptimist International (SI) | Kenya |
| Sri Lanka Center for Development Facilitation (SLCDF) | Sri Lanka |
| Stonewall | UK |
| Stop Killer Robots | Switzerland |
| StratHR Solutions Inc. | Canada |
| The Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Germany | Germany |
| the gender security project | |
| Transform a Girl’s Life | Kenya |
| Transition House Association of Nova Scotia (THANS) | Canada |
| UN Women Germany | Germany |
| WEDO | US |
| West Virginia Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs | United States |
| WILPF Canada | Canada |
| Women for Peace and Democracy Nepal | Nepal |
| Women Veterans Research and Engagement Network | Canada |
| Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom | International |
| Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Ghana | Ghana |
| Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network | Canada |
| Women’s Shelters Canada | Canada |
| You(th)spacesAfrica | Kenya |
| Young Women Network | Italy |
| Youths Awaken Foundation | Nigeria |
| YPFP Tokyo | USA/Japan |
| YWCA Canada | Canada |
Signatories: Individuals
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Alison Holder | Canada |
| amy soule | Canada |
| Anoush F. Terjanian | Canada |
| Bénédicte Santoire | Canada |
| Camille Gierck | Australia |
| Christina Arkenberg | Germany |
| Cymric Leask | Canada |
| Diana Oguda | Kenya |
| Dianne Varga | Canada |
| Dr Ernestine NGO MELHA | |
| Ebony Westman | Australia |
| Garima Khanter | India |
| Heather Thompson | Canada |
| Hiqmat Sungdeme Saani | Ghana |
| Julia MacGregor | Canada |
| Junko Utsumi | Japan |
| Katrina Leclerc | Canada |
| kayanga peter | uganda |
| Lata Narayanaswamy | UK |
| Mama Sampy | Mali |
| Marie-Josée Hamel | Canada |
| Merydth Holte-McKenzie | Canada |
| MUHAMMAD Y | JAPAN |
| Nathanaël Adras | La Réunion (France) |
| Navjot Thukral | Canada |
| Opal Sparks | Canada |
| Paul Hannon | Canada |
| Radhika Dixit | India |
| Rahila Poya | Afghanistan |
| Raphaëlle Jouannic | France |
| Rebecca Boyce | Canada |
| Riya Kothari | |
| Ruth Bottomley | UK |
| Samantha de Verteuil | Canada |
| Sonia Phalatse | South Africa |
| Tatiana Der Avedissian | United Kingdom |
| Wayua Mutuku | Kenya |
| Yukti Saumya | India |