WEDO is a steering committee member of the Corporate Accountability Working Group of the International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), a collaborative initiative of groups and individuals from around the world working to secure economic and social justice through human rights.
WEDO is a founding member of the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG), along with the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) , Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), GCAP Feminist Taskforce, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and WIDE-Globalizing for Gender Equality.
WEDO partnered with the World Conservation Union ( IUCN) and the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) to convene a Training of Trainers (ToT) on gender and climate change immediately preceding the December 2008 UN Climate Change meeting in Poznan, Poland. The ToT was followed by a delegates training, which included representatives from some 40 countries. In 2009 WEDO will work with IUCN and GGCA on a series of trainings in five regions. Stay tuned!
WEDO has big plans for the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. This involves presenting lessons learned and best practices from our national advocacy initiatives, including our campaign From Katrina to Copenhagen: Women Demand U.S. Action on Climate Change.
Out of Oxfam Great Britain came the amazing film, Sisters on the Planet, which tells Women’s stories of climate change from around the world; now there’s a U.S. version, too, as well as one from Australia! WEDO uses this film to raise awareness.
WEDO was chosen to be featured as a “Take Action” in the Women, Power and Politics online exhibition at the International Museum of Women. Visit the online community that inspires individuals and organizations from more than 200 countries to start conversations and take action around the issues that affect women and our world.
Recent WEDO Worldwide News
Report: Gender and Climate Adaptation Tools for Community-Level Action in Nigeria
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Prepared by the Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team’s (NEST) as a part of the Building Nigeria’s Response to Climate Change (BNRCC) Project, the new publication “Gender and Climate Change Adaptation Tools for Community-Level Action in Nigeria” presents a gender-sensitive approach to climate change adaptation in Nigeria, a country whose people are experiencing and reacting to changes in rainfall patterns, storm surges, and increased heat.
Nobel Peace Prize Recognizes Amazing Women Leaders
Friday, October 7th, 2011
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.…
Event: “The Right to Water in the Americas”
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
[ 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.
In the News: Attending to Gender
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
arbourvitae, the newsletter of the IUCN Forest Conservation Programme, recently published an issue entirely devoted to women’s relationship to forests. Entitled “Attending to Gender,” this issue contains, amongst other pieces, a look at the breakthrough in gender references at the COP16, articles on gender-mainstreaming efforts in REDD+ programs, a tribute to legendary activist Wangari Maathai, and a thought-provoking piece by Jeannette Gurung of WOCAN on why women have traditionally been excluded from the world …
Climate Change Facts– Women Demand U.S. Action on Climate Change
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Climate change is an established scientific fact. Humans contribute with our rising output of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and other products of fossil fuel consumption. Policies to halt climate change must address human impacts as well as technical aspects of the problem if they are to succeed. Women are essential to the solutions!
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