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Gender and Sustainable Development: Rio+20 Commitments
[ June 20, 2012; 3:00 pm to 4:45 pm. ]
Gender and Sustainable Development:
Rio+20 Commitments
THEME: Gender equality and women’s empowerment: the power behind successful sustainable development
DATE: 20 JUNE 2012 .
TIME: 3:00 – 4:45 PM,
VENUE: UNEP PAVILION, ATHLETES PARK, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
FACILITATOR: Ms Tomoko Nishimoto, Director, Division for Regional Cooperation, UNEP
PANELISTS:
Ministers for the Environment
HE Ms Lena EK , Minister for the Environment, SWEDEN; HE Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia, Minister of Environment, Nigeria; HE Ms …
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Women’s Major Group presents Rio+20 Recommendations to Michelle Bachelet
June 19, 2012, Rio de Janeiro
The Women’s Major Group played a significant role in the Women’s Leadership Forum hosted today by UN Women. During the opening panel, Sascha Gabizon of Women in Europe for a Common Future, an Organizing Partner of the Women’s Major Group (WMG), spoke passionately on behalf of the Women’s Major Group to illustrate the efforts that women have made over the past year and more to influence the Rio+20 outcome …
And when the world wouldn’t listen, we marched
RIO DE JANEIRO (JUNE 19)- On Monday June 18th, women took to the streets in Rio de Janeiro. WEDO, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, along with friends and allies from the Rio+20 Women’s Major Group, was proud to join thousands of women, from every corner of the world, and march among a sea of voices calling for justice, equality and change.
“The lack of ambition and action in the plenary halls of RioCentro …
Women’s Major Group Members at Rio+20 Call for End to Nuclear Power
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Rio de Janeiro (June 18): Only two days before the official opening of the United Nations 20th Anniversary Conference of the 1992 “Earth Summit”, representatives from the Women’s Major Group delivered an impassioned rejection of nuclear power and a call for safe energy development in response to a half-day conversation between energy experts and civil society sponsored by the Brazilian government and entitled the “Rio+20 Development Dialogue …
Women’s Resistance & Resilience at Rio+20
Powerful stories by Powerful Women who decry lack of real progress since 1992
by Claire Greensfelder and Bridget Burns on behalf of the Women’s Major Group
For 90 minutes on the morning of Friday June 15th, a strong and diverse group of nine women passionately engaged a crowd at the Rio Centro Conference Center with their first hand reports of each on women’s determined resistance to unsustainable projects and policies and their resilience in staying
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