The Casablanca Dream is an initiative of women from the Global South - activists and academics - seeking solutions for empowering women who increasingly carry the burden of world wide poverty.
"There is no one path to the creation of equitable, just and sustainable development. But women’s organizations in many countries have begun to create a path by walking. Goals and targets may help us get there, but only if they are embedded in a fuller vision of what development is and may become. We hope our deliberations will spark fruitful discussion of how we can move from crisis to equality, with benefits for the mass of men as well as of women. We want to make equality and just and sustainable development the new ‘normal’." - Diane Elson
Gender and Macroeconomics
"We need to shift our language - from gender equality and other terminologies and objectives such as Millennium Development Goals - towards ensuring securities: food, livelihood and water security for women. This should be the responsibility of the State. States are now all geared to ensure security against terror attacks, but it is these 'peace goods' that women want and should have, if there is seriousness in the States' commitments to ensure 'inclusive growth'." -Devaki Jain
"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." - James Baldwin
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After years of waiting and months of negotiation, the U.N. General Assembly voted the new U.N. gender entity into existence on July 2, 2010. To be known as “U.N. Women”, the new entity will be operational in Jan 2011.
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