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Join WEDO in urging UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint women to the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (Update)
New York, March 10 — In response to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recent appointment of an all-male High Level Advisory Board on Climate Change Financing, we have written the attached open letter expressing the need for women to be on the high level board. We invite you to add your organization’s name to the letter.
If you would like to sign your organization to this letter please send the name of your organization to rachel [at] wedo [dot] org by noon Friday 12 March. We look forward to presenting this letter to SG Ban Ki-moon before the end of CSW.…
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International Women’s Day: IUCN honors WEDO’s Cate Owren and other women leaders in climate change solutions
New York, March 8 — Today, on the occasion of 2010 International Women’s Day (March 8), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) honors leaders who are at the forefront of women’s empowerment in climate change solutions. Cate Owren, WEDO’s Program Director, is among the honorees. It is a privilege for WEDO to be honored alongside such a remarkable group of women, all of whom are partners and allies of WEDO in the work for a just, equitable and gender-responsive solution to climate change.
Visit IUCN’s website for more details: www.iucn.org
For the text of IUCN’s press release…
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U.N. Women’s Agency Remains Politically Paralysed
New York, March 5 — A longstanding proposal for the much awaited reform of the UN Gender Equality Architecture (GEAR) is moving at a slower pace than many women gathered at CSW-54 had hoped. Civil society and women’s groups cannot wait any longer and call on Member states to establish the promised women’s agency now. Read more here about what Colette Tamko at WEDO (Co-facilitator of the Global GEAR Campaign) has to say on the subject.
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WEDO Events at CSW 54
New York, March 3 – WEDO representatives are speaking at a number of events throughout the two weeks of the Commission on the Status of Women. We look forward to seeing you there!
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GEAR Campaign Launches Spoof Newspaper
New York, March 1 — The GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Campaign for the new women’s entity at the UN has produced a spoof newspaper, The New Times for Women, to promote the campaign’s vision for the new ’super agency’. The Europe Working Group led the project, launched at the opening of the Commission on the Status of Women meeting, and will be distributing thousands of copies at the UN during CSW this week. The paper’s editor Anna Elomäki said, “With this newspaper we want to raise awareness and call for immediate political action by governments and the UN…
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