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Bella Abzug’s Birthday

anna — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:29:34 +0000

[ July 24, 2010; ]

WEDO’s founder and lifelong women’s rights advocate Bella Abzug was born 90 years ago today on July 24th, 1920.

International Press Coverage of GEAR and the New Women’s Entity

anna — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:11:07 +0000

New York, March 18 — The GEAR Campaign has compiled a document with links to recent coverage in the French speaking press of the new women’s entity at the UN and GEAR’s efforts in that regard. It’s exciting to see the campaign’s reach extending around the world. If you don’t read French, the document also includes a brief summary of each article in English. Click here to read more.

Gender and Climate Change Featured on CUNY TV March 17, 2010

anna — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:43:48 +0000

[ March 17, 2010; 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ]

New Yorkers, please tune in to CUNY TV on Channel 75, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 8:30pm EST to see WEDO Board Member, Lorena Aguilar, and WEDO Campaign Coordinator, Rachel Harris, discuss gender and climate change. Look out for a link to this conversation soon!

Gender and Climate Change Featured on CUNY TV March 17, 2010

anna — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:38:49 +0000

New York, March 16 — New Yorkers, please tune in to CUNY TV on Channel 75, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 8:30pm EST to see WEDO Board Member, Lorena Aguilar, and WEDO Campaign Coordinator, Rachel Harris, discuss gender and climate change. Look out for a link to this conversation soon!

Worldwide Support for an Equitable Number of Women on the High Level Advisory Group for Climate Change Financing!

anna — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:01:25 +0000

UPDATE: Ms. Christine Lagarde, Minister of Finance of France is now a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing.

New York, March 12 — As of 12pm EST Friday, March 12, 2010 we have received over 140 organization signatures supporting an equitable number of women on the High Level Advisory Group for Climate Change Financing! Thank you for all of your support. Please find the updated letter with signatures here.

Join WEDO in urging UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint women to the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (Update)

eleanor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:24:07 +0000

New York, March 10 — In response to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recent appointment of an all-male High Level Advisory Board on Climate Change Financing, we have written the attached open letter expressing the need for women to be on the high level board. We invite you to add your organization’s name to the letter.

If you would like to sign your organization to this letter please send the name of your organization to rachel [at] wedo [dot] org by noon Friday 12 March. We look forward to presenting this letter to SG Ban Ki-moon before the end of CSW.

View the letter here.

Please forward this letter to others in your network who would be interested in signing. Also, if you are still at CSW, please continue your advocacy efforts with country delegations to encourage them to pressure SG Ban Ki-moon to respond to the call for inclusion of women on the High Level Advisory Board.

In addition, please find a list of qualified women for the panel. Please note that by signing the letter you are not endorsing the listed women; the list is a signal that many qualified women from around the world can be considered for inclusion in an equitable group. If you have suggestions of more women to include as candidates for the high level advisory board, please send their names and affiliations to rachel [at] wedo [dot] org by noon Friday 12 March.

View the list of potential candidates here.

International Women’s Day: IUCN honors WEDO’s Cate Owren and other women leaders in climate change solutions

anna — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:01:12 +0000

New York, March 8 — Today, on the occasion of 2010 International Women’s Day (March 8), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) honors leaders who are at the forefront of women’s empowerment in climate change solutions. Cate Owren, WEDO’s Program Director, is among the honorees. It is a privilege for WEDO to be honored alongside such a remarkable group of women, all of whom are partners and allies of WEDO in the work for a just, equitable and gender-responsive solution to climate change.

Visit IUCN’s website for more details: www.iucn.org

For the text of IUCN’s press release with descriptions of each honoree, click here.

U.N. Women’s Agency Remains Politically Paralysed

anna — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:26:43 +0000

New York, March 5 — A longstanding proposal for the much awaited reform of the UN Gender Equality Architecture (GEAR) is moving at a slower pace than many women gathered at CSW-54 had hoped. Civil society and women’s groups cannot wait any longer and call on Member states to establish the promised women’s agency now. Read more here about what Colette Tamko at WEDO (Co-facilitator of the Global GEAR Campaign) has to say on the subject.

WEDO Events at CSW 54

eleanor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:30:47 +0000

New York, March 3 – WEDO representatives are speaking at a number of events throughout the two weeks of the Commission on the Status of Women. We look forward to seeing you there!

WEDO events at CSW54

GEAR Campaign Launches Spoof Newspaper

eleanor — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:13:51 +0000

New York, March 1 — The GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Campaign for the new women’s entity at the UN has produced a spoof newspaper, The New Times for Women, to promote the campaign’s vision for the new ’super agency’. The Europe Working Group led the project, launched at the opening of the Commission on the Status of Women meeting, and will be distributing thousands of copies at the UN during CSW this week. The paper’s editor Anna Elomäki said, “With this newspaper we want to raise awareness and call for immediate political action by governments and the UN Secretary-General.”