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Women taking charge of their own destiny: Women on the Road to Rio+20
My grandmother never made it to College, but graduated 'with honors' from LIFE. Thinking about the role of women in Rio+20, I couldn't stop thinking about her. She was born in Hualahuises a very small town in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She had the temper and the strong character from which "norteñas" (women from the north in Mexico) are well known.
It was in the morning of July 3, 1955 when Sofia Aguirre de Ponce was the first in line to vote, carrying her 5 kids and a crying baby (my mom)…
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The Women's Major Group (WMG) was created as one of nine Major Groups after the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro. This list serve is for members of the Women Major Group following the Post Rio+20 process (Financing SD, SDGs-post2015) as well as for members of the Women Major Group following Environment processes (UNEP). The Operating Partners (OPs) of the Post Rio+20 process that coordinate the group rotate periodically. The current WMG OPs are Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) supported by a core group including the Women's Environment and Development Organization(WEDO) and Global Forest Coalition (GFC).
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