Archive for March, 2013
CSW EVENT: Violence – Ecologies – Livelihoods: Feminists Confronting Unsustainable Development
Monday, March 4th, 2013
[ March 7, 2013; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. ]
Given the focus of the 57th CSW on violence against women and girls, this side event will examine the various forms of violence resulting from unsustainable development and related environmental degradation. Speakers will share experiences of violations against women’s human rights in contexts of land grabbing, mining, nuclear contamination, and disasters, and propose measures to achieve sustainable development and eliminate violence against women.
Date: Thursday, March 7,
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Posted in CSW, Events, Featured Events, News, Rio +20 |
CSW EVENT: The Post 2015 Development Agenda: What’s at Stake for the World’s Women?
Monday, March 4th, 2013
[ March 5, 2013; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. ]
In 2015, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Agenda will come to an end, and with it uneven progress toward achieving the goals at its core. At this juncture, the UN System, member states and civil society organizations have begun to discuss priorities for a Post-2015 Development Agenda.
The Post 2015 Development Agenda: What’s at Stake for the World’s Women?
March 5, 2013 10:30am-12:00 pm
Venue: United Nations Church Center Chapel (1st floor), 777 …
Posted in CSW, Events, Featured Events, News |
Post-Rio+20: Where are we now?
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
NEW YORK (March 3, 2013)– by Eleanor Blomstrom, WEDO Program Coordinator
March 2013 marks ten months since the conclusion of Rio+20, and many are wondering where we are now. The Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is scheduled to hold its first formal meeting at the United Nations in New York in March. WEDO, partners, allies, and the thousands of organizations and individuals that participated in last year’s Rio+20 have been anticipating …
Tags: Post-2015, Rio+20
Posted in Frontpage Featured Library, Library, Rio +20, Sustainable Development |
Partner In Focus: Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
Friday, March 1st, 2013
MEXICO (March 1, 2013)– An interview with WEDO partner and colleague, Emilia Reyes, Director of Gender Policies and Budgets at Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
Q: Please describe your organization’s work and the work you have been doing with your organization and other orgs/stakeholders in Mexico as well as in international policy.
A: Equidad de Género is a civil society organization devoted to promoting gender equality and women’s rights. It has three main tracks: …
Posted in Civil Society Participation, Latin America & Caribbean |
Going greener? Unpaid work, care economy and sustainable development
Friday, March 1st, 2013
BERLIN, GERMANY (March 1, 2013)– WEDO partners LIFE and GENANET, together with the German Ministry of Environment, held a workshop in Berlin last month, February 11th-12th, to discuss how women’s unpaid work and care economy can be incorporated into sustainable development to achieve gender justice. Different voices and perspectives, from scholars and activists from the global North and South, discussed the growing concern about the emergent terminology of “green economy” in development agendas that …
Posted in Sustainable Development |
