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At International Meeting on Sustainable Future, Women are Referred to in Unacceptable Terms

22 juin, 2013

Statement by the Women’s Major Group, June 21, 2013 The Women’s Major Group, composed of 420 organizations from 80 countries, participated in the 4th Open Working Group Session on Sustainable Development from 17 to 19 June 2013. We were very pleased to hear numerous governments make statements on the importance of creating the environments necessary for girls, women and young people to be healthy, educated, and to have access to livelihoods, a living wage, and decent work in the Post …

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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 juin, 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…

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New Report spells out Potential Negative Impacts of Bioeconomy and Markets in Environmental Services on Women

12 juin, 2013

Bonn/Bogota, 12 June 2013 A new report [1] by the Global Forest Coalition [2] was launched at a side event on equity in climate mitigation policies organized by GenderCC at…

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Genetically Engineered Trees and Glowing Synthetic Plants? No Thanks

30 mai, 2013

Genetically Engineered Trees and Glowing Synthetic Plants? No Thanks This week in Asheville, N.C., the IUFRO “Tree Biotechnology” conference will meet. And the attendees will be met: by protests. Public opinion is…

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Of biomass, ‘energy crops’, power stations and deforestation

24 mai, 2013

In May 2010, the Global Forest Coalition warned in its report “Wood-based Bioenergy: The Green Lie”: “The demand for industrial wood bio-energy is causing large areas, especially in the South,…

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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 mai, 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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Industrial Livestock Production Key Threat to World’s Forests and Biodiversity

22 mai, 2013

New York/Asuncion, 22 May 2013 On the occasion of International Day for Biodiversity and the start of UN talks on a possible sustainable development goal (SDG) on agriculture [1], a…

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SEED DECLARATION, INDIA, 2012

14 mai, 2013

Foreword: Seed diversity and agrobiodiversity worldwide face the growing threat of market liberalisation, including the FTA between India and the EU that will only suit agribusinesses. To safeguard seed diversity and farmers’…

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

10 mai, 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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US Public Overwhelmingly Rejects Genetically Engineered Trees

30 avr., 2013

Upcoming Protests Disrupt Tree Biotech Conference Plans   Asheville, NC – By a majority of almost 99.99% to .01%, the US public overwhelming rejected steps toward the legalization of genetically…

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JORNADAS DE REFLEXIÓN CUENCA RÍO MAGDALENA, COLOMBIA

29 avr., 2013

PANEL NACIONAL ITINERANTE SOBRE POLÍTICA MINERO ENERGÉTICA Sesiones sobre CUENCA RÍO MAGDALENA, INVERSIÓN EXTRANJERA Y ECONOMÍA GLOBAL La política minera y energética que han impulsado los últimos gobiernos en Colombia se…

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International Indigenous Peoples Workshop on Aid and Development Effectiveness

29 avr., 2013

Baguio City, Philippines       April 22, 2013 Today, on the 22nd day of April 2013, 36 delegates from indigenous peoples and communities worldwide and advocates gathered in Baguio City for…

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Major Groups: NGO, Women, Farmer’s, Workers and Trade Unions, and IPs, Youth and Children, (science and technology) at the Asia-Pacific Regional Implementation Meeting on Rio+20

25 avr., 2013

The following statement was made on behalf of the following major groups: NGO, Women, Farmer’s, Workers and Trade Unions, and IPs, Youth and Children on April 23rd, 2013. We thank…

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Groups Globally Oppose Plans to Burn Wood for Electricity Citing Impacts on Forests, Climate, Communities

24 avr., 2013

For Immediate Release   24 April 2013 London, England – In conjunction with an action in London today outside of the Drax power plant, organizations and networks from around the world…

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To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present – Our Proposal for Changing the System and not the Climate

23 avr., 2013

World Social Forum, 2013 – Final Declaration from Climate Space The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has…

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

19 avr., 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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REDD Fiddlers on a Burning Roof

18 avr., 2013

Before we report on the national workshop on REDD Safeguards Information Systems and Conflict Resolution mechanisms, which took place from 8 to 12 April in Paraguay, let us talk briefly…

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