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From People’s Rights to Corporate Privilege: A South Feminist Critique of The HLP Report on Post 2015 Development Agenda

19 jun., 2013

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)* – The High Level Panel of Eminent Persons Report on the Post 2015 Development Agenda conveys a questionable sense of optimism for women. The report at first appears to have positively responded to the world-wide call from women to have a stand-alone and expanded gender equality goal. There are targets for gender, children and young people across several of the goals, as well as possibilities for indicators on gender, children and young people to …

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Intervention by the Women’s Major Group on Land Degradation, Desertification and Drought at the UN OWG SDG meeting 23 May 2013

23 may., 2013

We want gender to be mainstreamed in all sustainable development policies related to land management, but we do not want to be mainstreamed into a polluted stream. We call for…

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Statement to the African regional meeting of the 2013 World Economic Forum

10 may., 2013

*cross-posted from African Women’s Development Fund We the undersigned participants at a strategic meeting on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods, held in Cape Town on 3-4 May under the auspices of the African Women’s Development…

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Women’s Major Group Intervention at the 2nd Meeting of the Open Working Group of the Sustainable Development Goals

19 abr., 2013

New York, April 18th, 2013 Presented by Mette Kirstine Schmidt of Sexogsamfund Denmark Thank you, I speak on behalf of the women’s major group, with over 400 organisations and thousands…

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Access Denied: a View of the CSW from the Outside

8 mar., 2013

The 57th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) – boasting the largest participation of any event at UN Headquarters This week, thousands of women, plus a…

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Women at CSW57 Confronting Unsustainable Development

8 mar., 2013

8 March International Women’s Day Feminists Confronting Unsustainable Development’ during the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, CSW57, talk about the experiences of women and…

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Ironically Gender in the Fossil Patriarchy

13 dic., 2012

Press statement by GenderCC–Women for Climate Justice – Doha, December 8th, 2012 The UNFCCC talks again failed to deliver an adequate response on the climate challenge. However, often unnoticed by the…

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Women and gender NGOs at COP 18 to hold “not in my name action” demand “fierce urgency and ambition now”

5 dic., 2012

4 December 2012 For Immediate Release Doha, Qatar:  Women and Gender NGOs at COP 18 representing hundreds of women’s organizations and women environmental leaders around the world are calling on…

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Women’s Intervention at the High Level Segment at CDB-COP11

17 oct., 2012

Honorable Primer Minister, distinguished delegates, colleagues Speaking on behalf of the women’s caucus Twenty years ago, Principle 20 of the Rio Declaration highlighted that “women have a vital role in…

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‘Cheering-up’ Reflections on Rio+20

8 ago., 2012

Rio 92 was first and foremost a classical deal between the South committing to some concrete sustainable development actions and the North committing to provide financial and technological support for…

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RIO+20: From the Future We Want to the Future We Need Women’s Major Group Final Statement on the Outcomes of Rio+20

29 jun., 2012

The Women’s Major Group (WMG), representing 200 civil society women’s organizations from all around the world, is greatly disappointed in the results of the Rio+20 conference. We believe that the…

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Women’s Major Group Members at Rio+20 Call for End to Nuclear Power and Support for Safe Energy at Rio+20

19 jun., 2012

Rio de Janeiro (June 18): Only two days before the official opening of the United Nations 20th Anniversary Conference of the 1992 “Earth Summit”, representatives from the Women’s Major Group…

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Asia Pacific women demand States’ commitment to gender equality and women’s rights – The future women want!

15 jun., 2012

Women from Asia Pacific region call for all stakeholders’ commitment to gender equality and women’s rights in four key areas as basis for sustainable development. The purple scarves are the…

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Staking claim to our future: Women in Sustainable Development

14 jun., 2012

(cross-posted) RIO DE JANEIRO (JUNE 13)- It is now the final countdown to Rio+20, the Conference on Sustainable Development, taking place next week in Rio de Janeiro. Over 20,000 people…

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Reflections from the Regional Preparatory Meeting for Rio+20 for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)

10 oct., 2011

By Simone Lovera on 13/Sep/2011 Until now the discussions have been pretty interesting here at the regional preparatory meeting for Rio+20 for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the…

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