Women’s Caucus at the CBD- More work to be done!

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan– Rachel Harris speaks at High Level Event at the CBD on behalf of the Women’s Caucus. The Caucus welcomes the stregthening of language for gender mainstreaming throughout the CBD which was achieved in Nagoya and recognizes that much more work needs to be done to ensure implementation of the Gender Plan of Action.

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Rachel Harris on GreenTV

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan– Rachel Harris explan’s WEDO’s work at the CBD, convening the Women’s Caucus. Watch below or click here to view.

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IUCN Press Conference–Mainstreaming Gender in Biodiversity

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan– During a press conference at the CBD meeting, Lorena Aguilar, Senior Global Gender Advisor for IUCN, together with Rachel Harris of WEDO, Marie Khan, Gender Focal Point of the CBD, Akiko Domoto, Japanese Journalist, former Governor of Chiba Prefecture in Japan and ex-parliamentarian, Loreen Jubitana, Director of VIDS-DRS (Indigenous representative from Surinam) and Camila Moreno, who works in Brazil and Latin America on social and environmental dimensions of biotechnology and agribusiness expansion in the region, presented the challenges and the importance of gender mainstreaming in biodiversity, hoping that their voices are heard and gender issues soon win a more prominent place on the development agenda.

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The Women’s Caucus advocates for gender at the CBD!

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan- Today, Rachel Harris of WEDO gave an intervention at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on behalf of the Women’s Caucus for Item 4.9(e) on Gender Mainstreaming. This statement highlights the need for a core post in the CBD on gender.

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“Protecting Life on Earth”: WEDO arrives at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) in Nagoya, Japan

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan — This week, representatives of over 190 signatories to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity have come together in Nagoya, Japan for the 10th meeting of the parties to the Convention, or COP10. The conference is set to forge a new agreement for the ten years to curb escalating biodiversity loss and potentially set aside vast amounts of the world’s land and marine areas as sanctuaries. On the table at CBD COP 10 are 20 targets designed to tackle the extinction crisis and restore the earth’s natural capital.

Read IUCN’s article in the lead up to the start of the…

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