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Event: Addressing The Gender Dimension of Vulnerability: An Adaptation Framework that Works for Everyone

Friday, November 18th, 2011

[ November 30, 2010 6:30 pm to November 30, 2011 8:00 pm. ] CARE International and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) are partnering on a side event at UNFCCC COP-17 on November 30, 2011 from 6:30-8pm in the Hex River Room. This event will use an interactive discussion format to explore the complexities of vulnerability from a gender perspective and make recommendations to input into an adaptation framework that works for everyone.

Posted in Events, News, WEDO at COP17 |

Season’s Greetings from WEDO!

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Happy holidays from the WEDO family to yours!

Posted in News, Newsletters |

La place déterminante des femmes dans les décisions plausibles de Cancun

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Cancun, Mexico– Click here to read article in French by WEDO Global Advocacy Associate Sandra Frietas, on the outcomes of Cancun: La place déterminante des femmes dans les décisions plausibles de Cancun

Posted in In The News, WEDO at COP16 |

Cancun Climate Agreements: Taking Great Strides for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Monday, December 13th, 2010

The COP16 climate negotiations concluded over the weekend in Cancun, Mexico, at around 5am on Saturday (11 Dec), and the WEDO team was there to mark the result. The Cancun Agreements recognize women and gender equality as integral to effective actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change; including eight references to women and gender across seven sections of text.

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Women and gender constituency deliver final Cancun intervention

Monday, December 13th, 2010

During the high level segment of COP16 on Friday, December 10th, the Women and Gender Constituency delivered its final intervention. The statement stressed that women’s rights are human rights, which was a fitting point for Human Rights Day. No climate change program will be successful without the full recognition of women’s rights.

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