By Women4Biodiversity & FARN, members of Women’s Caucus – UNCBD Last September, at the 3rd meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) (Part I), Costa Rica proposed a new target (Target 22) for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF). It reads: Ensure women and girls’… Read More »This 2022, adopt Target 22, a stand-alone target for gender equality in the post-2020 GBF
In celebration of World Wetlands Day last February 2, Women4Biodiversity created and shared weekly videos featuring women and their communities working to protect and restore wetlands near and around their homes. From sewing bags from cloth scraps to reducing plastic pollution in wetlands to channelling… Read More »#WomenActforWetlands videos showcase women’s success stories in conservation and restoration
Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law By Claudia Ituarte-Lima – Originally posted in China Dialogue – December 28, 2021 The 1972 Stockholm Conference sowed the seeds for the growth of… Read More »Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today
Una colaboración de Ruth Spencer (Antigua y Barbuda), Ana Di Pangracio (Argentina) y Amelia Arreguín (México) Con la entrada en vigor del Acuerdo de Escazú el 22 de abril, Día Internacional de la Madre Tierra, nosotras las Mujeres por la Biodiversidad, el Caucus de Mujeres… Read More »Mujeres por la Biodiversidad y Escazú
A collaboration by Ruth Spencer (Antigua and Barbuda), Ana Di Pangracio (Argentina) and Amelia Arreguín (Mexico) As the Escazu Agreement enters into force on April 22, International Mother Earth Day, we the Women 4 Biodiversity, the CBD Women’s Caucus from the Latin America and Caribbean… Read More »Women for Biodiversity and Escazú
Cristine Eghenter Original article at Linkedin, March 8, 2021 Gender equality and female empowerment are core development objectives, fundamental for the realization of human rights and key to effective, equitable and sustainable development outcomes. We still need to commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8th… Read More »International Women’s Day: Overcoming Neglect
During the previous weeks, an informal meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA)* of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) was held. As the Women Caucus, we participated in all sessions making the voice of women and girls of the… Read More »CBD Women Caucus at the CBD SBSTTA 24
Who is she and what drives her? Country: Antigua and Barbuda Region: Caribe Antigua is classified as a Small Island Developing State of the Caribbean (SIDS), and due to the ecological crisis it constantly faces natural disasters and its population is burdened with environmental impacts;… Read More »Monday Member – Ruth Spencer
Ana di Pangracio, FARN Originally published in Spanish. https://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/ley-humedales-hay-proteger-lo-nos-protege-nid2586780 It’s time for a wetland law. We need it now. This is the understanding of the more than 500,000 people who signed an online petition demanding a “wetlands law now”, which at this moment is aimed… Read More »Wetlands Law: We must protect what protects us
Building a future for all life on Earth requires incorporating human rights in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, writes Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. This article authored by Claudia Ituarte-Lima was originally published on October 22, 2020 on China Dialogue and Raoul Wallenberg Institute on Human… Read More »Why Rights and Biodiversity Are Interdependent
