Thank you, my name is Shannon Kowalski from the International Women's Health Coalition and I am speaking on behalf of the Women’s Major Group.

We would like to reinforce the comments from many member states, which have emphasized the centrality of human rights for the SDGs.  Poverty is a consequence…

by Cate Owren, WEDO Executive Director who attended the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) conference

April 7, 2013, St. Louis, MO.

I sat at the table full of boys. That was my challenge to myself. Don’t go the easy route – don’t go preach to the choir with the girls, who are already asking for your card and aching to talk women’s rights. Go sit with the boys.  See what they’re up…

NEW YORK (April 2, 2013)-- The CSD20 (Commission on Sustainable Development 20th and last session) WILL NOT TAKE PLACE IN MAY in New York as first planned. The new dates have not yes been set, yet. We will be informed. The new date will be posted at http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1211 when available.

On the same webpage, you can also find…

NEW YORK (March 8, 2013)- Feminists Confronting Unsustainable Development’ during the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, CSW57, talk about the experiences of women and the struggle and resistance strategies of their communities against unsustainable economic activities.

Women from Guatemala, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Japan and Fiji, came together at the side-event on …

Hi Happy New Year! Let us hope that this new Year 2013 we will able to come up together to make our environment a pollution free,

Where birds can sing and bees can hum freely,

Butterflies can flip their wings  on the flowers that bloom

Where children can play with out being chased

The safe and secure environment exists.

by Bridget Burns, WEDO Project and Communications Coordinator. At COP18, in addition to facilitating the WDF program and WEDO communications, Bridget worked in collaboration with several individuals to establish an active youth gender working group.

The culmination of any two-week-long multilateral negotiations, particularly around a complex, urgent and global issue such as climate change, is always followed by a period of reaction and reflection. Stakeholders at every level,…

To all members of Women creating sustainable future, I am glad to inform that my book on Sustainable Tourism Development is to be published on October 2012 the book is based on the local planning and socioeconomic upliftment and capacity building at the grass root level I present herewith few mesmerized tourist spots in my region where I exixt and struggle for sustainable living of my villagers.…

In the aftermath of the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, which deliberately left reproductive rights out of the official outcome text, there is little time to feel discouraged.  There are education and awareness campaigns to undertake, and alliances to build and strengthen - especially between the environmental and women's rights movements.

One good meeting to direct our campaigns towards is Cairo+20 in 2014, the twenty year…

Chiang Mai (29 June, 2012): The Rio+20 Outcome Document did not break new ground for gender equality and women’s human rights, and did not establish any binding commitments from governments for just development. As we move past Rio+20, states have a vital opportunity to create and…

Rio de Janeiro (22 June, 2012): Women from Asia Pacific say the current Rio+20 draft does not offer a sustainable future for women. Employment and economic rights, militarisation, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and women’s role in climate change are being ignored, say women’s rights organisations from the region. They are calling on governments to ensure the promotion, protection and realisation of women’s human rights in the outcome document.

The women…

Our Nature Is Not For Sale

Against Commodification and Financialization of Nature in G-20 and RIO+20

Jakarta, June 19th 2012. On June 2012, two international meetings that determine the direction of world economy and environment will be taken place. The meetings will have an impact on the overall future of mankind and the earth. The meetings that will be held at a close time are Rio+20 Summit and G20 Summit. Rio+20 Summit will be held…

Rio de Janeiro (21 June, 2012): Women from Asia Pacific demand governments address critical issues on women’s human rights missing in the Rio+20 negotiations for sustainable development. Employment and economic rights, militarisation, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and women’s role in climate change significantly impact women across the region, yet are being ignored. Asia Pacific women call for States to ensure the promotion, protection and realisation of…

Our delegate Feri Lumampao was celebrated last night for her tremendous leadership in sustainable development. So proud!

She is the Executive Director of Approtech Asia (The Asian Alliance of Appropriate Technology Practitioners, Inc.) and has over three decades of development work in developing countries, including women in science and technology, sustainable agricultural and environmentally sound agroforestry systems, among…

DEMANDS OF THE WOMEN FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA

The heads of States and government delegations will be meeting next week from 20 – 22 June

2012 in Rio for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20). This will culminate in the

adoption of an outcome document which is currently going through the final stages of negotiations

at the Preparatory Committee meeting from 13 – 15 June 2012.

The Women’s Major Group has been carrying forth the demands of…

Admittedly I am totally surprised, but despite the tremendous chaos at this conference here the Governments at Rio+20 here seem to have all agreed on the attached outcome document yesterday, well in time for the High-level Carnaval that starts today.

The text consists of the text agreed until last Saturday and a lot of compromise texts crafted by the Brazilian Government the past days. Most texts are a rather bland repetition of what was already agreed upon, sometimes years ago, in…

“Land grab may work well for everybody and must not be rejected with knee-jerk reactions.” – Rachel Kyte, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development and CGIAR Fund Council Chair

The 4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day was held on 18th June, hosted by Embrapa (Brazil’s public-sector agricultural research company) and CGIAR, a World Bank funding body for agricultural research. Previous such days, which coincided with climate COPs, served to…

Rio de Janeiro (16 June 2012): Women from around the world joined Asia Pacific women at Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to express their aspirations for sustainable development, writing powerful messages on colourful shirts and hanging them on clothes lines tied around the event tent. Dubbed “Women’s clothes line of aspirations and demands for sustainable development,” the inspiring event was organised by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development…

Rio de Janeiro (June 19, 2012): A crowd of women activists waved their Rio+20 purple scarves and made their voices heard that women’s human rights must be at the centre of sustainable development policy, claiming space outside the UN venue where negotiations on the outcome document…