Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’
WEDO speaks at the UN Human Rights Council on Women and the Right to Water
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
On Monday, September 26th, WEDO delivered a statement at the 18th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, High Level Panel on “Women and the Right to Water”. WEDO Board Member, Katherine McDonald, sat on a panel alongside colleagues from ISIS International, MADRE, Swiss Red Cross and WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future). The panel began with a from statement of UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque, author of “Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation“.
In her statement on behalf of WEDO, Ms. McDonald stated, “Extreme degradation of ecosystems, unmitigated climate change, and over-consumption…
Tags: Climate Change, Human Rights, Water
Posted in Civil Society Participation, Library, News, Water |
Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Climate Change
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
New York, May 26th 2011– Article by WEDO Executive Director Cate Owren. Originally published in On the Issues Magazine.
A major paradigm shift in dealing with climate change has been unfolding in the last few years – largely thanks to concerted efforts by women’s human rights advocates. Once a strictly “environmental” or “business” issue, climate change has been increasingly accepted as a gender equality and social justice issue by civil society organizations, UN agencies and governments from around the globe. Despite this, an ongoing struggle is underway to address both climate change and its specific gender impacts.
Until recently,…
Tags: Climate Change, Human Rights
Posted in Climate Change, In The News, Library, News |
HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM: Using a Rights-Based Framework in Climate Change Negotiations
Friday, December 10th, 2010
New York, New York– Written by Eleanor Blomstrom (Original posting at NCRW Human Rights Forum)
As advocates working in the international arena, at WEDO, we consider the human rights framework a key driver of our advocacy to improve the lives of women worldwide. A human rights framework recognizes a shared humanity, irrespective of culture or nationality, in which every person has basic rights to life, health, livelihood, food, shelter, etc. By focusing on such a framework for women’s rights, advocates are not as encumbered by national or local laws or culture as they would be using the civil rights…
Tags: Climate Change, Human Rights, Political Participation, UNFCCC
Posted in Climate Change, In The News, Library, News |
U.N. Human Rights Council Hears Testimony on Link Between Women’s Rights and Climate Change
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The Women’s UN Report Network has released a statement made before the UN Human Rights Council on June 15th by a coalition of international women’s organizations:
According to the research of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, women and children are 14 times more likely to die than men are during a disaster…. READ MORE
Tags: Climate Change, Human Rights
Posted in In The News, Library |
Challenging Nike to Deliver on Worker’s Rights
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
After filing a complaint against Nike through the United Nations Global Compact Complaint Mechanism, WEDO had two meetings with Nike representatives in 2008 about the perennially unjust conditions of workers in Nike’s supply chain factories. Nike is a member of the compact–a voluntary initiative that commits a company to engage in sustainable and responsible business practices. The ensuing dialogue with Nike led WEDO to initiate a fact-finding project with partners that will help supply chain factories incorporate three interlocking principles: decent work, green jobs and women’s labor rights.
Read WEDO’s letters to Nike here:
Tags: Corporate Accountability, Corporate Campaigns, Human Rights
Posted in Library, Previous Initiatives |
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