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Forest Cover 59: Bioenergy in West Africa – impacts on women and forests

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:18+00:00 October 31st, 2019|Biodiversity, Climate, Energy, GFC, News|

In this issue of the Global forest Coalition's magazine Forest Cover we explore the full spectrum of bioenergy developments and use in West Africa and how they are impacting women and forests. The articles cover bioenergy in its very large-scale, requiring huge areas of land to provide the raw materials, to the ubiquitous and time-old [...]

#HerstoryofChange: Twitterstorm at HLPF

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:49+00:00 July 5th, 2019|APWLD, Events, Gender equality, GFC, GWA, News, Our stories, Outreach, WECF, WEP|

Tuesday next week is the first day of the High Level Political Forum! It is held annually at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Every year it focuses on different themes and SDGs. The theme this year is “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality” and we will be reviewing SDG 4, 8, 10, [...]

#Ruralwomen: join our Women2030 campaign!

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

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 [...]

#Women2030 partners at the European Development Days

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:35+00:00 June 5th, 2018|APWLD, Events, GFC, GWA, Press release, WECF, WEP|

The coalition and local partners of the programme #Women2030 will be present at the European Development Days in Brussels, on 5 and 6 June 2018, on their stand number 79, to facilitate dialogues with local partners from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Caucasus, and to showcase results after 2 years of implementation. #Women2030 coalition and [...]

The Rural is Political: a brief summary of WECF’s activities at CSW62

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:35+00:00 April 27th, 2018|Advocacy, Gender equality, News, WECF|

CSW62 CONCLUSIONS On March 12th 2018, the 62nd CSW session was opened at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. WECF was represented by Anke Stock, Sascha Gabizon, Hanna Gunnarsson and our partner Agnes Mirembe (ARUWE, Uganda) and Sonia (BaliFokus). Many important conclusions were reached and agreed upon, among which: increased financing and official [...]

Press release: Women2030 Coalition Launch Website on International Women’s Day

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:45+00:00 March 8th, 2018|News, Press release|

08 March 2018 Global   For Immediate Release   The Women2030 global coalition launched our website, women2030.org today on International Women’s Day. This website will be a one stop resource to build capacity of women’s and gender civil society organizations to advance local, national and regional gender-responsive sustainable development policies through participation in policy development [...]

CSW62: side event on SDGs monitoring, with best practices from Women2030

By | 2018-03-06T10:55:32+00:00 February 15th, 2018|

You are warmly welcomed to the event “Turning promises into action: What will it take to make the 2030 Agenda work for women and girls?”, co-hosted by us, UN Women and GIZ. The event is an official side event to the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62), at the United Nations Headquarters [...]

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CSW62: Women’s Major Group side event on chemicals, gender equality and rural women

By | 2018-02-15T17:46:53+00:00 February 15th, 2018|

“Strengthening gender policies for a toxics-free planet for rural women” We would kindly like to invite you to our side event: “Strengthening gender policies for a toxics-free planet for rural women”. The event is running parallel to the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62), at the United Nations Headquarters in New [...]

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