Posts Tagged ‘WEDO’
People’s Hearing on the Financial Crisis
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
[ June 20, 2009; ]
20 June 2009, New York, NY (1-6 pm)
WEDO invites you to join us at Peoples Voices on the Crisis, an event we’re co-sponsoring that aims to shed light on the all-too-real social and environmental impacts of the current financial, food, energy and climate change crises. The event will bring together activists from civil society organizations, trade unions and grassroots groups on a local, national and international level who will give testimony on how their lives …
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Finance, Food Security, WEDO
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CSD Side Event
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
[ May 8, 2009; 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. ]
WEDO partners, ENERGIA, the international network on gender and sustainable energy in collaboration with IUCN will hold a learning centre event to CSD-17 on The Role of Biofuels in sustainable Rural Development on Friday, 8th May 2009 from 10:00am to 13:00p at the UN in New York City.…
Tags: Global Governance, Sustainable Development, WEDO
Posted in CSD, Events, Global Governance, Library, News, Sustainable Development |
WEDO and GGCA partners at the UN Climate Change Negotiating Session | Bonn, Germany | April 2009
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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WEDO Announces New Board Chair
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
We are writing to formally announce that after serving for seven years on the WEDO Board of Directors—five of them as Chairperson—Srilatha Batliwala officially stepped down as Chairperson of the WEDO Board earlier this year.
We are grateful to Srilatha for her unwavering support of WEDO, particularly over the course of the last year as she steered WEDO through a successful transition in leadership that resulted in the appointment of WEDO …
WEDO and Partners Impact Climate Change Negotiations
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
New York, April 23–WEDO just returned from the first climate change negotiating session of 2009, which took place 29 March – 8 April, in Bonn, Germany. WEDO and Energia coordinate a team of gender advocates who participate in each negotiating meeting, representing the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA). Find the Team’s position paper and Submission to the negotiations here. The year’s negotiations stated off well—with numerous countries from different regions calling for the urgent …
Tags: Gender Equality, GGCA, WEDO
Posted in Climate Change, GGCA, Library, News |
