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WEDO Seeking New Finance Manager- Come Join Our Team!
NEW YORK (January 14, 2013)- WEDO is currently seeking a Finance Manager to manage its annual operating budget. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Finance Manager is responsible for managing WEDO’s day-to-day financial, accounting and administrative operations. The Finance Manager works closely with a small international staff, as well as WEDO’s international Board of Directors, liaising regularly with the Board Treasurer. Click here to download the full job description.
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President Obama: The Time is Now to Tackle the Climate Challenge
NEW YORK (January 7, 2013)–In a letter released today, WEDO joined nearly 70 national and regional organizations to thank President Obama for repeatedly raising the threat of climate change and to highlight specific actions he can take after his second inauguration to promote a truly healthy planet for our families and our future. As reiterated in WEDO’s piece on Hurricane Sandy, climate change is happening now, it is our new normal. Failure to take leadership on this issue is …
Letter to the 113th US Congress: Ratify CEDAW
NEW YORK (January 4, 2013)– Yesterday, the below letter, signed by WEDO and over 100 organizations, along with several petitions calling on the US Senate to ratify CEDAW -the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women- in the 113th Congress, were successfully delivered yesterday to all members of the Senate, with the help of a passionate and enthusiastic group of advocates wearing “Ratify CEDAW” stickers. Click here to download the full letter with signatories.…
Mourning the Loss of Visionary Activist Rebecca Tarbotton
NEW YORK (January 2, 2013)– WEDO joins with the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and the entire environmental justice community in mourning the loss of fierce advocate Rebecca ‘Becky’ Tarbotton, who unexpectedly passed away last week. RAN’s first female Executive Director, at only 39 years old, Rebecca had achieved amazing change for people and the planet, and she will continue to inspire many with her courageous vision for a better world. See below a video of …
The Doha Gaps: Seeking Miracles, Solidarity and Good Old Fashioned Hope to Fill Them
New York, New York (December 14, 2012)– On the heels of Hurricane Sandy, which tore a destructive path through the Caribbean and up the East coast of the U.S., and during Typhoon Bopha, the worst, most devastating storm to occur in the Philippines in half a century, the eighteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP18) in Doha, Qatar, failed to reflect reality.
COP18 ended Saturday night, December …
