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WEDO delivers Intervention at COP16 on behalf of Women and Gender Consituency
Cancun, Mexico- On Monday, November 29th at the opening session of the AWG-LCA (Ad hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action), WEDO’s Rachel Harris delivered an intervention on behalf of the Women and Gender Consituency. The statement stressed the importance of coming to a consensus on the most critical issue of our time and ensuring gender dimensions are taken into account throughout all areas of the negotiations. Click here to download the full statement.
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Women’s Caucus at the CBD- More work to be done!
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 behalf of the Women's Caucus
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Rachel Harris on GreenTV
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
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.
Watch an interview with GEAR Campaign representatives
New York, August 3 2010 — Representatives of the GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Campaign, including Rachel Harris (WEDO), Charlotte Bunch (CWGL – Center for Women’s Global Leadership) and Bani Dugal (BIC -Baha’i International Community), talk about the GEAR Campaign’s role in the recent UN Resolution establishing UN Women/ONU Femmes.
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