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
For the world’s biodiversity policies and programmes to be gender-responsive and transformative, human rights needs to be at the center of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The Framework is a 30-year blueprint that will be adopted by the 196 countries parties to the Convention on… Read More »High-level virtual event advances women’s role in 30-year global biodiversity framework
Biodiversity underpins the ecosystems and their services and functions are vital to life. As international and national campaigns to restore degraded landscapes are gaining popularity to address the UN Decade on Restoration, there is a gap that persists at the heart of the ecosystem restoration… Read More »Weaving gender into Ecosystem Restoration
Briefing paperbyThematic workshop on Human Rights in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity FrameworkPublication date22 April, 2021 Translations Español: Los derechos humanos en el Marco Mundial de la Diversidad Biológica Posterior a 2020: Opciones para integrar un enfoque basado en los derechos humanos a fin de lograr… Read More »Human Rights in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Options for integrating a human-rights based approach to achieve the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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
