1 07, 2019

Women’s Major Group position paper

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 July 1st, 2019|Advocacy, APWLD, Climate, Gender equality, GFC, News, Policy paper, WECF, WMG|0 Comments

Women today find ourselves in very difficult times. We see this in rising protectionist governments; xenophobia, misogyny, and discrimination; governments turning more inward and backward to the detriment of the world; and power ever more concentrated among elite and corporations. We see this in environmental destruction, violations of women’s human rights, privatization of public goods, [...]

16 06, 2019

European Feminist Lesbian Conference in Kiyv: We need anger, realism and lots of love

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 June 16th, 2019|Advocacy, Events, Gender equality, News, Outreach, WECF|0 Comments

Over 350 lesbians* bringing #LesbianGenius to the world, gathered for 3 days in a Soviet era Turist hotel, guarded like a fortress by  police and National Guard, where the halls were renamed for three days honouring fierce feminists.  The second European Lesbian * Conference (EL * C) took place in April in Kiev, Ukraine. It [...]

11 06, 2019

A tale of multiple disconnects: why the 2030 Agenda does not (yet?) contribute to moving German gender equality struggles forward

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 June 11th, 2019|Gender Assessments, Gender equality, News, Reports & studies, WECF|0 Comments

This study addresses the percolation and domestication of the United Nations’ “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Transforming our World” in Germany with a view to understanding its impact on domestic gender equality policies. Concentrating on federal-level policymaking, the main finding of the study is that the 2030 Agenda and SDG 5 have, as of yet, not [...]

26 04, 2019

Statement: feminist activists at Tunis Forum for Gender Equality outraged!

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 April 26th, 2019|Advocacy, Events, Gender equality, News, Press release, WECF|1 Comment

For immidiate release Tunis 26 April 2019   Mary (South Sudan) - We, the participants of the Tunis Forum for Gender Equality taking place in Tunis from April 24th to 26th 2019, have gathered to review the progress of the UN Security Council resolution1325 and the Beijing Platform for Action. A day before this Forum started, the [...]

31 01, 2019

The gender impact assessment and monitoring tool

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 January 31st, 2019|Gender Assessments, Gender equality, News, Online courses & tools, Trainings (ToT), WECF|0 Comments

This gender impact assessment and monitoring tool (GIM tool) has been developed in the framework of the Women2030 project, with the explicit objective of helping women and gender civil society organisations to implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a particular focus on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5. The 2030 Agenda was built [...]

14 12, 2018

Meet the Winners of the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award at COP24

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 December 14th, 2018|Advocacy, Climate, Events, Gender equality, News, Outreach, Press release, WECF, WMG|0 Comments

On the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we awarded Gender Just Climate Solutions Winners at the climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland Yesterday, on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we held our inagural Gender Just Climate Solutions Award and publication launch at the climate negotiations in Katowice, [...]

7 11, 2018

Tajikistan

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 November 7th, 2018|Advocacy, Gender equality, Shadow reports, Shadow reports 2017, WECF|0 Comments

The level of gender inequality in Tajikistan remains high, despite the minor improvements from the previous year. The country’s performance and global ranking as regards economic participation and active involvement of women in policy-making also suffered a blow. Public trade unions acknowledge the work that the Tajik government has been doing to tackle gender inequality, [...]

2 11, 2018

Policy roundtable in Dushanbe

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 November 2nd, 2018|Advocacy, News, WECF|0 Comments

This was originally posted by our local partner Youth Ecological Centre (see Russian text below) The round table “Gender assessment of environmentally related Sustainable Development Goals in the Republic of Tajikistan” was held in Dushanbe on October 31. The round table organized by the Climate Network of NGOs in Tajikistan with the support of WECF [...]

15 10, 2018

1.5°C is possible: gender just climate solutions are showing the way!

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 October 15th, 2018|Climate, News, Press release, WECF|0 Comments

Press release: for immediate release According to the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have 12 years left to take radical action to prevent global warming from rising beyond 1.5°C. Radical action is what the Women and Gender Constituency has been demanding for years. And we are proud to [...]

15 10, 2018

#Ruralwomen: join our Women2030 campaign!

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 October 15th, 2018|Gender equality, GFC, News, Outreach, WECF|0 Comments

It is the International Day of Rural Women on Monday today. Every year, October 15th commemorates the crucial role of rural women and girls, including Indigenous women and girls in contributing to sustainable development, rural livelihoods, food, climate resilience and wellbeing. This year, #Women2030 is highlighting the harsh impacts of unsustainable industries and development on [...]