Latin America & Caribbean
In Argentina, the Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la Mujer (FEIM) is a WEDO partner and GEAR regional focal point. WEDO collaborates with FEIM to mobilize Women’s organizations across the region, develop advocacy strategies and build momentum for the creation of a new Women’s entity at the UN.
WEDO collaborates with long-term partner, the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women of Trinidad and Tobago on Women’s political participation and leadership in the Caribbean. In collaboration with the Network of NGOs, WEDO organized an expert meeting on women candidates and campaign finance strategies in 2007.
With partner the Sustainable Economic Development Unit of the University of the West Indies (SEDU) in Trinidad and Tobago, WEDO published the first-ever assessment of gender and climate change in the country. WEDO and SEDU, with other partners from the region, will soon launch awareness-raising and advocacy activities.
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Partner In Focus: Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
MEXICO (March 1, 2013)– An interview with WEDO partner and colleague, Emilia Reyes, Director of Gender Policies and Budgets at Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico
Q: Please describe your organization’s work and the work you have been doing with your organization and other orgs/stakeholders in Mexico as well as in international policy.
A: Equidad de Género is a civil society organization devoted to promoting gender equality and women’s rights. It has three main tracks: …
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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.
Final Report: Gender & Climate Change Workshop, Dakar, June 2008
This Final Report summarizes the presentations and findings presented at WEDO’s Gender & Climate Change Workshop in Dakar, Senegal, in June 2008. Case studies of Senegal, Ghana, Nepal and Trinidad were presented.
Final Report: Gender & Climate Change Workshop, Dakar, June 2008 (pdf)…
Fiorella Benavente, “Electoral Context and Quota Legislation”
Fiorella Benavente of Movimiento Manuela Ramos addressed the strategies used and lessons learned after Peru enacted a ‘neutral’ gender quota law, establishing a minimum percentage of women or men.
Fiorella Benavente, “Electoral Context and Quota Legislation” (Word .doc)…
María José Lubertino, “The Argentinian Women’s Experience”
María José Lubertino, a former MP and president of Argentina’s Human Rights Citizen Association outlined the role that women played in Argentina becoming the first country in the world to enact a quota law.
Maria Jose Lubertino, “The Argentinian Women’s Experience” (Word .doc)…
