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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

by Women4Biodiversity

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

Mujeres por la Biodiversidad y Escazú

by Women4Biodiversity

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

Women for Biodiversity and 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

International Women’s Day: Overcoming Neglect

by Women4Biodiversity

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

CBD Women Caucus at the CBD SBSTTA 24

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

Monday Member – Ruth Spencer

by Women4Biodiversity

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

Wetlands Law: We must protect what protects us

by Mrinalini Rai

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

Why Rights and Biodiversity Are Interdependent

by Mrinalini Rai

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

Building resilient local economies through agro-biodiversity: Case from Malinau, North Kalimantan, Indonesia

by Mrinalini Rai

Contributed by WWF Indonesia and FoMMA (Alliance of the People of the Kayan Mentarang National Park) and GOW (The united association of Women’s organizations) Equality in natural resource and landscape governance is fundamental and concerns: tenure rights, fair sharing of costs and benefits; procedural aspects… Read More »Building resilient local economies through agro-biodiversity: Case from Malinau, North Kalimantan, Indonesia

Voices #ForNature #ofWomen at Summit on Biodiversity, September 30, 2020

by Mrinalini Rai

In the path to “build back better” we need to bend the curve of inequality and injustice and embed a human rights-based approach to a healthy environment. We must work together to ensure that the new era of biodiversity conservation can deliver for the right of nature, for the rights of women and for the whole of society.

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