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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 …
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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.…
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 …
Grains of Sand Can Move the World – Reflections on COP18
by Bridget Burns, WEDO Project and Communications Coordinator. At COP18, in addition to facilitating the WDF program and WEDO communications, Bridget worked in collaboration with several individuals to establish an active youth gender working group.
The culmination of any two-week-long multilateral negotiations, particularly around a complex, urgent and global issue such as climate change, is always followed by a period of reaction and reflection. Stakeholders at every level, across sectors and issues embedded in the …
Making Our Voices Heard: Interventions at COP18
New York, New York (December 11, 2012)– Recognized as an official constituency of the UNFCCC in 2011, the Women and Gender Constituency works to ensure human rights and gender equality are incorporated into UNFCCC negotiations, agreements, plans and actions. The Constituency is currently comprised of eight* observer NGOs to the UNFCCC, some of whom are networks. Individuals and organisations engaged in women and gender issues who are not accredited to the UNFCCC are encouraged to work through accredited members …
