Women’s Caucus at the CBD- More work to be done!

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan– Rachel Harris speaks at High Level Event at the CBD on behalf of the Women’s Caucus. The Caucus welcomes the stregthening of language for gender mainstreaming throughout the CBD which was achieved in Nagoya and recognizes that much more work needs to be done to ensure implementation of the Gender Plan of Action.

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Rachel Harris on GreenTV

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan– Rachel Harris explan’s WEDO’s work at the CBD, convening the Women’s Caucus. Watch below or click here to view.

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IUCN Press Conference–Mainstreaming Gender in Biodiversity

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Nagoya, Japan– During a press conference at the CBD meeting, Lorena Aguilar, Senior Global Gender Advisor for IUCN, together with Rachel Harris of WEDO, Marie Khan, Gender Focal Point of the CBD, Akiko Domoto, Japanese Journalist, former Governor of Chiba Prefecture in Japan and ex-parliamentarian, Loreen Jubitana, Director of VIDS-DRS (Indigenous representative from Surinam) and Camila Moreno, who works in Brazil and Latin America on social and environmental dimensions of biotechnology and agribusiness expansion in the region, presented the challenges and the importance of gender mainstreaming in biodiversity, hoping that their voices are heard and gender issues soon win a more prominent place on the development agenda.

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Guidelines for Mainstreaming Gender into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Because successful conservation policies cannot neglect the wider socio-economic setting of societies, these Guidelines aim to assist the development of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) to meet the objectives of the Convention while simultaneously promoting gender equality.

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CBD Factsheet: Biodiversity, Gender and Climate Change

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Report from the CBD on the interconnectedness of climate change, biodiversity shifts, and gender. Includes explanation of the purpose of the GGCA and the CBD’s involvement in the GGCA as well as a “Fast facts” section.

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