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Rachel Harris on GreenTV
Nagoya, Japan– Rachel Harris explan’s WEDO’s work at the CBD, convening the Women’s Caucus. Watch below or click here to view.
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IUCN Press Conference–Mainstreaming Gender in Biodiversity
Nagoya, Japan– During a press conference at the CBD meeting, Lorena Aguilar, Senior Global Gender Advisor for IUCN, together with Rachel Harris of WEDO, Marie Khan, Gender Focal Point of the CBD, Akiko Domoto, Japanese Journalist, former Governor of Chiba Prefecture in Japan and ex-parliamentarian, Loreen Jubitana, Director of VIDS-DRS (Indigenous representative from Surinam) and Camila Moreno, who works in Brazil and Latin America on social and environmental dimensions of biotechnology and agribusiness expansion in the region, presented the challenges and the importance of gender mainstreaming in biodiversity, hoping that their voices are heard and gender issues soon win a more prominent place on the development agenda.
The Women’s Caucus advocates for gender at the CBD!
Nagoya, Japan- Today, Rachel Harris of WEDO gave an intervention at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on behalf of the Women’s Caucus for Item 4.9(e) on Gender Mainstreaming. This statement highlights the need for a core post in the CBD on gender.
“Protecting Life on Earth”: WEDO arrives at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) in Nagoya, Japan
Nagoya, Japan — This week, representatives of over 190 signatories to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity have come together in Nagoya, Japan for the 10th meeting of the parties to the Convention, or COP10. The conference is set to forge a new agreement for the ten years to curb escalating biodiversity loss and potentially set aside vast amounts of the world’s land and marine areas as sanctuaries. On the table at CBD COP 10 are 20 targets …
Guidelines for Mainstreaming Gender into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
Because successful conservation policies cannot neglect the wider socio-economic setting of societies, these Guidelines aim to assist the development of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) to meet the objectives of the Convention while simultaneously promoting gender equality.
