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Partner In Focus: Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
MEXICO (March 1, 2013)– An interview with WEDO partner and colleague, Emilia Reyes, Director of Gender Policies and Budgets at Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
Q: Please describe your organization’s work and the work you have been doing with your organization and other orgs/stakeholders in Mexico as well as in international policy.
A: Equidad de Género is a civil society organization devoted to promoting gender equality and women’s rights. It has three main tracks: …
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Going greener? Unpaid work, care economy and sustainable development
BERLIN, GERMANY (March 1, 2013)– WEDO partners LIFE and GENANET, together with the German Ministry of Environment, held a workshop in Berlin last month, February 11th-12th, to discuss how women’s unpaid work and care economy can be incorporated into sustainable development to achieve gender justice. Different voices and perspectives, from scholars and activists from the global North and South, discussed the growing concern about the emergent terminology of “green economy” in development agendas that …
JOIN E-discussion (Feb. 4- Mar. 1): Environmental Sustainability for the World We Want: Moving From the MDGs to Post-2015
NEW YORK (February 6, 2013)– Join the e-discussion: 4 February – 1 March! The UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda has proposed that environmental sustainability be one of the four core dimensions in a post-2015 development agenda, along with inclusive social development, inclusive economic development, and peace and security. Based on this and the outcomes of Rio+20, there is growing consensus that the post-2015 development agenda will need to apply …
World Social Forum 2013
[ March 26, 2013 to March 30, 2013. ]
The social and citizens movements of Tunis and the Maghred invite you to the World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia 26-30 March 2013 to discuss the international situation and how to build an “other world” www.fsm2013.org
The organizing committee comprises, among others, Tunisian organisations who were driving forces in the revolutionary process which helped end the dictatorship and who continue the struggle to defend and expand social and democratic rights. For the first time since
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CSW57- Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls
[ March 4, 2013 to March 14, 2013. ]
This year’s CSW 57, held from March 4th to March 15th, 2013, will focus on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. Violence against women and girls is rooted in gender inequality. It is one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world. The Beijing Platform for Action developed at the Fourth World conference on Women in 1995, defines violence as one of the 12 …
