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Women on the forefront at the Earth Summit ’92 in Rio.
A personal journey by Irene Dankelman, Former WEDO Board Chair
Thinking of about 20 years ago, I really feel privileged to have been part of the movement that shaped a gender perspective into sustainable development. In the early 1990s I was working with the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, in New York as their gender-environment advisor, preparing for the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. On …
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Executive Board Adopts UN Women’s Strategic Plan and the GEAR Campaign Adopts a New Strategy
New York, August 1st, 2011- In late June the Executive Board of UN Women decided to adopt UN Women’s strategic plan. With the ultimate goal of gender equality and women’s empowerment the strategic plan focuses on women’s political leadership, women’s economic empowerment, violence against women, gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming intergovernmental processes. It is an ambitious plan and there are many challenges that lie ahead for UN Women. However, the GEAR Campaign, comprised of …
Gender and Climate Finance: Progress Side-Tracked So Soon?
Spring 2011 Newsletter– The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, couldn’t have said it better last month in Bangkok, at the opening of the 2011 climate talks: “The decisions we made in Cancun helped save the process – now we must save the planet.” The momentous UNFCCC Cancun Agreements, made last December at the 16th UNFCCC Conference of Parties, could be a critical step to putting …
Returning to Rio: Examining the Issues and Forging the Path for Women
Spring 2011 Newsletter– Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where WEDO founders and supporters ensured women were at the table to help integrate gender equality principles into the sustainable development framework, it is time to take up the task once again. At Rio+20 in June 2012, the world community will come together to discuss the next several decades of sustainable development. Momentum is building. Governments and civil society alike …
Women’s Rights are Human Rights: Transforming the 1990s Slogan into a Real 21st Century Movement
Spring 2011 Newsletter– At the launch of UN Women on February 24, 2011, a phrase resounded throughout the night: women’s rights are human rights. UN Women, a new high-level United Nations entity tasked to tie global gender equality and women’s empowerment policies to national actions and to reinforce gender equality commitments throughout the UN system, now has the ability – with both the mandate of the UN General Assembly and the support from the global …
