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Delegate Profile: Ulamila Wragg, the Cook Islands
The Pacific Islands confront climate change in a way most of us can’t begin to imagine. Sea level rise threatens not only the Pacific Islands’ resources—saltwater intrusion threatens freshwater and fertile soils for food production—but also endangers these countries’ very existence with the loss of several hectares of land each year. As UNFCCC Delegate and Cook Island-native Ulamila Wragg says, “Climate change cuts across every aspect of our society. The impacts are not indirect; they are directly affecting the livelihoods of our people, from education to government spending to our daily living.”
Delegate Profile: Patience Damptey, Ghana
Patience Damptey has been in public service for almost all of her life. With a background in chemistry, environmental science, and gender policy planning, Patience began her career in 1973 as a high school teacher. Thirty-eight years and multiple government and ministry positions later, Patience is officially retired, but can still be seen walking the halls of the UNFCCC as one of the top negotiators for Ghana and the Africa Group. Back home, she works tirelessly for the coalition she co-founded, Gender Action on Climate Change for Equality and Sustainability (GACCES); a coalition of individuals and organizations from all regions of Ghana who are committed to the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality in climate change responses.
Women Delegates Fund “Night School”
WEDO at COP17
Friday to Sunday – November 25th- 27th
In collaboration with GGCA partner, IUCN, WEDO took part in a three day night school and capacity building program for the participants of the Women Delegates Fund (WDF). The aim of the program was to assist each of the delegates to build roadmaps for implementation on gender and climate change at the national level as well as to build capacity in the negotiations. WDF Delegate Patience Damptey from Ghana said “[the night school] helped us to articulate what we have done and gave us the opportunity to move the issue of gender and climate change at the national level through specific actions.”
Memorial for Wangari Muta Maathai, Tues. November 14th
[ November 14, 2011; 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ] Wangari Muta Maathai
(1940–2011)
A Memorial Ceremony
Philosopher, environmentalist, educationist, political activist, freedom fighter,
mother, grandmother, guiding light. We will miss her. We will celebrate her. We will
emulate her. We will never forget her.
— H. E. Macharia Kamau, Ambassador and Permanent Representative at Kenya Mission to
United Nations
Nobel Peace Prize Recognizes Amazing Women Leaders
WEDO extends our congratulations to the three 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winners: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. The three women were awarded the prize for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Sirleaf is Africa’s first female elected head of state, Gbowee is a peace activist, and Karman is a leading figure in Yemen’s pro-democracy movement.
In particular, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia has been a hugely important advocate and ally in WEDO’s work on gender and climate change. In …
