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PPG 2022 Community Agenda Rollout

Join Partnership for the Public Good for the 2022 Community Agenda Rollout event, where they will announce the policy planks making up the 2022 platform.

 

This year’s community agenda process was our most competitive year yet, with 25 policy proposals! Many of you attended the agenda vote back in November and voted for your favorite proposals. Now it’s time to publicly release the top (eleven!) priorities for this year. Join PPG, the winning partners, and supporting elected officials for the public release!

 

On Zoom – register at bit.ly/CommunityAgenda2022. Feel free to invite others via the Facebook event page.

Article 16: Right to Marry & to Found a Family

Most of the 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) begin with gender-free language: “Everyone,” “All” or “No One.  But Article 16 states that “men and women” have the right to marry, with the women drafters of the UDHR succeeding in their determination that it should spell out clearly that women had equal rights in marriage, given there was still very widespread discrimination in matters relating to marriage at the time.