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FAO’s 3rd World Food Summit

Friday, July 31st, 2009

[ November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. ]

November 2009, Rome, Italy: The FAO’s will hold it’s 3rd World Food Summit to pressure governments and institutions that a better food and agricultural system must support self-sufficiency and local needs, withstand and mitigate climate change, maintain biodiversity and sustainability, and improve women’s economic and food security. http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article1399

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Posted in Biodiversity, Events, Food Security, Library, News |

Conference: Gender – Power – Climate. Feminist Perspectives on Climate Change and Justice

Friday, July 31st, 2009

[ September 21, 2009 to September 25, 2009. ]

September 21-25, 2009, Kiel, Germany: WEDO’s Nadia Johnson will provide the keynote address at “Gender – Power – Climate. Feminist Perspectives on Climate Change and Justice”, a conference organized by the German Association for Political Science.

https://www.dvpw.de/kongresse/dvpw2009.html

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New! Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

New York, July 20–As part of the effort to foster gender sensitive climate change policy-making, the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) launched a Gender and Climate Change Training Manual at the UNFCCC conference (COP-14) in Poznan, Poland, last December, and held an orientation for Party delegations.

 
The training manual is now available and can be downloaded from the IUCN website. The GGCA, of which WEDO is a member, will hold additional training orientations on the gender dimensions of climate change throughout the year, and in preparation for each major UNFCCC meeting.

Get the manual here!

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One UN Meeting in Viet Nam

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

[ July 7, 2009; 2:00 pm; ]

The Gender and Governance program will be holding a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam as part of its initiative to ensure that a gender perspective is incorporated in the Delivering as One UN pilot project.

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