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Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change
July 19, 2011–Original article published by IUCN
By Ms Kanwal Ahluwalia, Gender Equality Advisor, Plan UK
Plan International’s Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change highlights the need to better integrate the specific needs of adolescent girls in climate change and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
The findings presented in the report are based on interviews with girls involved in Plan International’s programmes in Ethiopia and Bangladesh. We were particularly keen to hear stories from girls themselves in relation to how climate change is impacting on their lives and what they feel that policy makers should do differently.…
Celebrating the Work of Betty Ford
There was never a secret where Ford stood on women’s rights. She was outspoken in the push for full equality for women and girls. She was also for abortion rights. I first met her when she attended the International Women’s Conference in 1978 with some 20,000 delegates in Houston. Lady Bird Johnson was there, too, and then-first lady Rosalynn Carter. That was happening in a time when many Republican and Democratic women stood shoulder to shoulder together for women’s rights.
Women Keen to Ease Greenhouse Effect on Their Ability to Provide
Windhoek, Namibia, July 4th, 2011-Original article published by IPS News.
WINDHOEK, Jul 4, 2011 (IPS) – A successful entrepreneurial programme in the north of Namibia that infuses farming practices with gender-responsive environmentalism may serve as a model for other countries on the African continent.
Ambition and Commitment Needed for the Future of UN Women
New York, July 1st, 2011– Original article published by IPS News. UNITED NATIONS, Jun 30, 2011 (IPS) – When the United Nations inaugurated a landmark special agency for women last January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set an initial target of 500 million dollars as the proposed annual budget for the new gender-empowered body. But nearly six months later, the voluntary funding for U.N. Women (UNW) from the 192 member states has remained painfully slow. Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, expressed disappointment over the funding shortfall. Nearly six months after its operationalisation, the actual contributions and pledges received are modest and only around 80 million dollars, he said. “This is not commensurate with the aspiration and ambition assigned to U.N. Women,” he complained.
High Level Panel – UN Human Rights Council
[ June 3, 2011; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ]
WOMEN – POVERTY – CRISES – HUMAN RIGHTS
June 3, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Room 27 – Palais des Nations, Geneva
Distinguished Speakers:
• UN Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty – Ms. Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona – Statement
• UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service – NGLS
• Center for Women’s Global Leadership – Ms. Radhika Balakrishnan, PhD, Executive Director
• ActionAid International – Ms. Ruchi Tripathi, Head-Right to Food
• ATD Fourth World International – Ms. Magdalena Brand, Gender Specialist
• WILPF – Women, Poverty, & War/Conflict – Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom
• WUNRN – Women’s UN …
