Today, December 10, is Gender Day at COP25 in Madrid. Women and girls around the world are demanding more climate action, and there is increased recognition of their leadership. (We're looking at you, Greta Thunberg!) However, in climate decision-making, women have not been equally represented. At COP25, the male Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) said, "there has...
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COP25 started today in Madrid. FAWCO is represented there by two UN Reps, Ayuska Motha and Stacey Kimmig from AIWC Cologne, who are joined by Joan Evers from local club AWC Madrid. FAWCO is a member of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), a coalition of NGOs working together to amplify our advocacy work for gender just climate solutions. Ayuska, Stacey and...
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By Paula Daeppen (AWC Zürich)
The Beijing Platform for Action recognized the essential role of women in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound consumption and production patterns and in approaches to natural resource management, but in 1995, the urgent awareness of the devastating effects of climate change were not as evident as they are today. Today women are among the...
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As the International Conference on Population and Development is taking place in Nairobi, a group of international human rights experts has called for a renewed commitment to and investment in women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights. "We call upon decision-makers to always put women’s and girls’ human rights at the centre of policy considerations and to meaningfully...
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By Georgia Kallis (AWO Greece)
A quarter of a century after Beijing, 47 Government delegations, 867 participants, and representatives from 81 Civil Society Organizations gathered at the U.N. in Geneva for the Beijing +25 ECE Regional Review. National reports showed that although some progress has been made by some of the EU Member States on gender equality in the domains...
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The UN Climate Conference of the Parties (COP25) had been scheduled to take place in early December in Santiago, Chile. In late October, due to increasing civic action protesting Chile's economic policies, Chilean President Pinera abruptly cancelled COP25. FAWCO joined other members of the Women and Gender Constituency in signing on to a statement by international civil society pledging "solidarity...