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WEDO works with Washington, DC-based Gender Action in the United States on gender and climate financing mechanisms, specifically in the United Nations and World Bank.
The Washington, DC-based group, 1Sky is a strong partner and ally of WEDO’s U.S. Climate Change campaign. 1Sky is an umbrella organization for various U.S.-based national and grassroots groups working on climate change, supporting WEDO in its gender and climate change work. In 2009 WEDO’s U.S. Campaign will continue to work closely with 1Sky and its grassroots initiatives.
Oxfam America, based in Boston, MA, is working with WEDO’s U.S. campaign to educate U.S. activists about gender and climate change through its Sisters on the Planet video that is part of WEDO’s From Katrina to Copenhagen: A Toolkit for Action.
WEDO is a member of the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN), which brings together several U.S.-based organizations that advocate for U.S. action on climate change. As a member of USCAN, WEDO engages with other groups in the U.S. to bring a gender perspective to U.S. climate change advocacy.
WEDO works with Feminist Majority based in Arlington, VA on gender and sustainable development issues, targeting a U.S. campus audience to raise awareness and advocate for gender and sustainable development.
WEDO works with the national office, based in Washington, DC, of the League of Women Voters (LWV) to raise awareness and distribute resources and tools on gender and climate change to LWV chapters.
SisterSong, based in Atlanta, GA, is working with WEDO and other organizations to develop a Reproductive Justice and Environmental Justice training toolkit that will include gender and climate justice as one of its components.
New York, NY-based West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WEACT) is working with WEDO’s U.S. campaign to include a gender perspective in climate justice advocacy at its Climate Justice conference, January 29-30, 2009.
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ), based in Oakland, CA is working on the intersections between reproductive justice and climate change and helping to organize the gender and climate justice session at WEACT’s January 2009 conference in which WEDO is a panelist. Throughout 2009 WEDO plans to continue its partnership with ACRJ through our Campaign From Katrina to Copenhagen: Women Demand U.S. Action on Climate Change.
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President Obama Signs New Directive to Strengthen our Work to Advance Gender Equality Worldwide
NEW YORK (February 1, 2013)- Earlier this week, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum to strengthen and expand U.S. government capacity and coordination across all agencies to better promote gender equality and empower women and girls. Below, White House Officials Valerie Jarrett and Samantha Power highlight the importance of this action and continued leadership on promoting gender equality.
President Obama Signs New Directive to Strengthen our Work to Advance Gender Equality Worldwide
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President Obama: The Time is Now to Tackle the Climate Challenge
NEW YORK (January 7, 2013)–In a letter released today, WEDO joined nearly 70 national and regional organizations to thank President Obama for repeatedly raising the threat of climate change and to highlight specific actions he can take after his second inauguration to promote a truly healthy planet for our families and our future. As reiterated in WEDO’s piece on Hurricane Sandy, climate change is happening now, it is our new normal. Failure to take leadership on this issue is …
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
Members of U.S. Congress Speak Out on Women and Climate Change!
On Thursday November 3rd 2011, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a Congressional resolution to bring attention to the greater economic, agricultural, and health-related hardships faced by women arising from climate change. H.Con.Res. 84 recognizes the disparate impact of climate change on women and the efforts of women globally to address this issue. The Resolution was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
From the official posting on her website, Representative Lee remarks: “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,” said Congresswoman Lee. “While women are bearing the brunt of climate change’s effects, they are often underrepresented in the development of climate change adaptation policy. This is unacceptable.”
Event: “The Right to Water in the Americas”
[ October 25, 2011; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] The Center for Women’s Global Leadership & the Institute for Women’s Leadership invite you to a public lecture by WEDO Board member Marcela Olivera, Bolivian water rights activist & 2011 Visiting Global Associate- “The Right to Water in the Americas”. Marcela Olivera is the Latin American coordinator for the Water for All campaign. After graduating from the Catholic University in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Marcela worked for four years in Cochabamba as the key international liaison for the Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life. In 2004, she moved to Washington, DC for a year to work for the Water for All campaign, developing an inter-American citizens’ network on water rights. Named “Red Vida”, the network, which she continues to coordinate from Cochabamba, Bolivia, assists water rights groups throughout Latin America to coordinate their efforts to preserve or establish the water as a public good and human right. Currently, Marcela is the 2011 Visiting Global Associate at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University.
