MANY OF YOU MIGHT BE WAITING FOR A SPECIFIC EVENT TO BRING IN THE ONE WORLD GOV. AKA NEW WORLD ORDER (NWO) WELL ITS ALREADY BEING DONE THROUGH CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ~ IN KONA WE HAVE NICOLE LOWEN WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL GOVERNANCE LIBRARY PREVIOUS INITIATIVES WEDO: Global Governance Visit Women on the Road to Rio20 Global Governance WEDO works to ensure global governance is transparent, accountable and effective. Since its founding, WEDO has believed in the potential of, and indeed the necessity for, good global governance. The United Nations has played – and still must play – a strong role in facilitating governments’ agreements and holding them accountable to their commitments. As a result of decades of multi-level, multi-stakeholder action, global legal frameworks for the promotion of human rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability exist. These frameworks provide tools for officials, practitioners and activists to draft and implement sustainable national-level policies, programs and practices. Focused on the interlinkages and interdependence of its priority issues, WEDO works to uphold existing legal frameworks and support governments, civil society partners and UN agencies alike in turning words into action. Civil society access to and participation in global decision-making fora is a critical part of good global governance. From UN processes at headquarters, to meaningful engagement and partnership with country offices, WEDO supports information-sharing between and engagement of non-governmental voices. Visit the “Civil Society Participation” page for more on this work. Project in focus: Since 2007, WEDO has been working with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and a global network of diverse women’s organizations to hold the UN accountable to its commitment to gender equality and to ensure its architecture reflects that. The GEAR Campaign was founded to mobilize support for the creation of a new, more powerful and fully funded women’s entity under the UN system; in 2010, the GEAR partners celebrated the Resolution to found UN Women and, a few months later, the appointment of Michelle Bachelet as its Under-Secretary-General. Today, WEDO and the GEAR partners continue to support the effective operationalization of UN Women, at headquarters, regional- and country-level. “We are proud of everybody who has been [part of] the creation of the new gender architecture for the UN. What comes next will equally depend on our continued commitment and women’s involvement in all processes, at all levels. I want to emphasize “women”– not because I think they need to be overburdened, solely responsible or have special rights – but because the next phase for what’s now called ‘UN Women’ is all about their life, their needs, their roles and their interaction with the developments in every country of the world.” – Monique Essed Fernandes, WEDO Board Chair, 2010 WEDO Newsletter The Latest Global Governance News WGC Release Women at COP 20 Blast Failure for Real Action in Lima: “Time to Stop Calling and Start Doing. Leaders, You Have 12 Months to get it Right.” Sunday, December 14th, 2014 LIMA, PERU (December 14, 2014) – As COP20 comes to a close, the members of the UNFCCC’s Women and Gender Constituency, representing hundreds of thousands of women and men from around the world, respond to the failure of the Lima outcome to reflect the urgency of the climate crisis. For over two weeks in Lima, WGC and Women’s Caucus members participated directly in the negotiations, held press conferences, conducted advocacy trainings, wrote articles, released reports … Read More Posted in Climate Change, News, UNFCCC, WEDO at COP20 Email This Article Email This Article Gender Outreach WEDO Team – prolific writers at COP20 Friday, December 12th, 2014 LIMA, PERU (December 12, 2014) — WEDO team members published numerous articles during the two weeks of COP20, focused on the interlinkages between gender and climate change. The articles emphasize the intersectionality of gender relating to disaster risk reduction, health, forests, human rights and transportation. In her article, DRR: Coherence, Rights and Resilience, WEDO’s Eleanor Blomstrom presents readers with a case for the importance of a diverse leadership for effective decision making to appropriately … Read More Posted in DRR, News, WEDO at COP20 Email This Article Email This Article DSC_1411BB The Underbelly of Article (6): Instrumentalizing the Right to Public Participation under the UNFCCC Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 by Yeniva Massaquoi, WEDO Women’s Human Rights Fellow, from COP20 on International Human Rights Day Article 6(a)(iii) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits 196 member states to the promotion and facilitation of public participation at national, subregional and regional levels. Despite this commitment, environmental human rights defenders continue to be penalized and persecuted for their lawful attempts to publicly participate on climate change issues. We are reminded of this by … Read More Posted in Blog, WEDO at COP20 Email This Article Email This Article LimaPressConf Gender Day at COP20 Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 LIMA, PERU (December 9, 2014) — On Tuesday, December 9th, COP20 in Lima hosted the UNFCCC’s 3rd Gender Day where all parties and constituencies involved used the day to host activities emphasizing the links between gender and climate change, with a strong call for action to all parties to advocate for gender equality. The day began with a breakfast meeting with the Network of Women Ministers and Leaders for the Environment that presented participants with … Read More Posted in News, WEDO at COP20 Email This Article Email This Article Global Landscapes Forum at COP20 Sunday, December 7th, 2014 LIMA, PERU (December 7, 2014) – The Global Landscapes Forum 2014 (GLF 2014) took place at the Westin Hotel in Lima on December 6th and 7th. CIAT and GGCA members (including WEDO, IUCN, REFACOF, andRECOFTC) coordinated a learning space, called the Gender Pavilion, to inform and engage conference participants and share their work highlighting the critical link between gender and the landscapes approach in research, finance, mitigation, adaptation, biodiversity conservation, poverty … Read More Posted in News, WEDO at COP20 Email This Article Email This Article « Older Entries Explore Global Governance CBD Civil Society Participation CSD CSW DRR Empower Women- Benefit All GEAR Campaign MDGs Post-2015 Rio +20 UN Women UNCCD UNFCCC WEDO at COP15 WEDO at COP16 WEDO at COP17 WEDO at COP18 WEDO at COP19 WEDO at COP20 Check out WEDOs New Historical Publication! 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