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Women Making the Case for U.S. Action on Climate Change
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (August 27 2012)- The direct and indirect effects of climate change continue to have a disproportionate impact on marginalized women, including refugee and displaced persons, sexual minorities, religious and ethnic minorities, adolescent girls, women and girls with disabilities and those who are HIV positive… our goal is to empower women who are particularly vulnerable to climate change and to encourage a more gender-sensitive approach in climate change policy- U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee
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Rio+20 and the Social Media Fellow
by Alexis Curry, Communications Fellow at WEDO
I have a confession to make: before I started my Communications fellowship at WEDO in June, I didn’t use Twitter.
Let me clarify before all of those nonprofit organizations to which I’ve applied for jobs scold me for lying on my resume, which lists Twitter as one of my social media skills. Before I started at WEDO, I understood how Twitter worked. I knew about hashtags, handles and …
Celebrating Wangari Maathai’s Legacy at Rio+20
RIO DE JANEIRO (JUNE 22) — “The road is long and the battles many… For me it is a journey and I continue to pursue it wherever fate leads me…I learned to rise from the ashes of disappointment and look to the road yet ahead.” – Wangari Maathai
Women’s rights advocates at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development remember Wangari Maathai’s wise words as we have faced another uphill battle to …
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 …
Women on the Road to Rio: Meet the Recipients of the Women’s Major Group/ UN Women Travel Fund
In partnership with UN Women, the Women’s Major Group is proud to announce the recipients of travel funding to attend the Rio+20 meeting and participate in capacity building and Women’s Major Group advocacy work. This fund was generously provided by the Rockefeller Foundation to facilitate the participation of civil society, including grassroots women’s organizations in the Rio process.
