Gender, Climate Change & Human Security:Lessons from Bangladesh, Ghana and Senegal

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Commissioned by the Greek chairmanship (2007-2008) of the Human Security Network, this study “Gender, Climate Change & Human Security: Lessons from Bangladesh, Ghana and Senegal” explores the interlinkages between gender, climate change and human security. Authors: Irene Dankelman, Khurshid Alam, Wahida Bashar Ahmed, Yacine Diagne Gueye, Naureen Fatema and Rose Mensah-Kutin. (2008)

Gender, Climate Change & Human Security (pdf)…

Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Sustainable Development
Posted in Africa, Asia & Pacific, Climate Change, Library |

New Case Study! Gender and Climate Change in Nepal

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Nepal, like many other places around the earth, is feeling the deleterious impact of human-caused climate change—there is an increasing threat of food insecurity, of glacial lake outburst floods, and of harm to Nepal’s richly diverse forests.

 A new Case Study: Gender and Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas of Nepal commissioned by WEDO and produced by Brigitte Leduc, Arun Shrestha, and Basundhara Bhattarai of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)…

Tags: Case Studies, Climate Change, Gender Equality
Posted in Asia & Pacific, Climate Change, Library, News |

Does the UN climate convention ignore gender?

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Women’s organisations at the UN climate talks in Poland, COP14, have expressed concerns that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is one of the few global conventions in which women and gender issues were not clearly addressed…READ MORE

Tags: Gender Equality, UNFCCC
Posted in In The News, Library |

AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights & Development | Cape Town, South Africa | November 2008

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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Tags: Gender Equality, Global Governance
Posted in Gallery, Global Governance, Library |

Gender & Climate Finance

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

WEDO challenges the dominant approach to climate change that prioritizes market-based solutions over human rights-based policies which seek to protect the most vulnerable. By documenting the key economic dimensions of climate change policies and processes and their implications for women, WEDO advocates for climate change financing that is gender sensitive.

Working with partners in Africa and Asia to produce case studies and to develop a platform to impact key global processes, WEDO is also analyzing …

Tags: Climate Change, Gender Equality, Trade and Finance
Posted in Asia & Pacific, Climate Change, Library, WEDO Worldwide |