At the 2025 High-Level Political Forum, CESR advanced the call for redistributive justice, feminist economic transformation, and human rights-centered financing for development. Building on the Compromiso de Sevilla and looking toward the World Social Summit, we stressed that meeting the 2030 Agenda requires binding structural reforms, not just political statements.
At the official thematic session Delivering the 2030 Agenda: Aligning Global Processes through Inclusive Multilateralism, CESR intervened on behalf of the Civil Society Financing for Development Group. Mahinour ElBadrawi, CESR’s Global Partnerships Lead, warned that while Sevilla is being hailed as a success for multilateralism, it reflects compromise in the face of geopolitical division. She called for urgent reforms in tax, debt, care, and climate finance, particularly in the run-up to FfD4, and highlighted the need for a UN Tax Convention, a sovereign debt workout mechanism, and a convention on development cooperation as foundations for rights-based development.
Mahinour ElBadrawi, our Global Partnerships Lead, delivered a statement on behalf of the Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism.
We also co-sponsored a side event with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and the missions of Brazil and Germany: Reinforcing gender justice to realize the human rights of women and girls. Moderated by Isatou Badjie of UN Women, the panel emphasized that achieving gender justice requires care-centered economies and transformative financing reforms.
In her remarks, ElBadrawi stressed that Beijing+30 must be a springboard, not a ceiling, for gender equality. “Women in the Global South are subsidizing broken economic systems. This moment must be used to transform, not just reaffirm, the foundations of development, toward care, public financing, and structural justice,” she said. Drawing on CESR and Third World Network’s Decoding Gender Injustice, she pointed to opportunities for coherence from Sevilla to COP30 and the G20.
These interventions reflect CESR’s broader campaigns for rights-based financing and feminist economic transformation.