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
UN CBD SBSTTA24, SBI3, OEWG-3 Side event Date: 14 March 2022 Time: 13:15-14:15 CET Venue: On line+ On site (Salle 14, Level 2, CICG conference centre) Registration: bit.ly/targetgender Background The event will discuss the Draft Post-2020 Gender Plan of Action that will be presented during the… Read More »Targeting Gender – Best Practices and Ways Forward
Date and time: 28 February 2022 from 1:15 to 2:45 pm (Nairobi) Co-organizers: Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action; CIEL; Conservation International; Costa Rica, Earthjustice; Forest Peoples Programme; Human Rights Watch; International Indian Treaty Council; IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy; Natural… Read More »Reimagining Conservation: Integrating human rights in the development and implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Watch the full event HERE Mire el evento completo AQUÍ Introduction This event is a follow-up to the October 11 a high-level event on advancing gender considerations in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, held in parallel to the opening of the first part of the… Read More »#HerSafetyIsPriority Roundtable Summary
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
VOICES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN ADDRESSING GENDER INEQUALITIES AND ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE POST-2020 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK ROUNDTABLE SUMMARY HERE Date: Friday, 10 December 2021 Time: 11am – 1pm | Kenya (GMT +3) 3pm – 5pm | Thailand (GMT +7) 7 pm –… Read More »Her Safety Is Priority
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
Forest Landscape Restoration and Protection: A case of Paran Women Group, Narok County of Kenya Edna Kaptoyo/ Pastoral Communities Empowerment Programme (PACEP), Kenya Indigenous women are playing relevant role in forest landscape restoration that is also a water tower. They undertake this protection and restoration… Read More »World Environment Day 2020: Time for Nature, Time for Women
by Ana Di Pangracio, Deputy Director at FARN and CBD Women Caucus Advisor This statement was originally published in the environmental supplement of the Argentine newspaper Perfil on May 22, 2020, on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity. The natural systems that… Read More »If there is a way out, taking care of Nature is the door
By Mika Schroder atm. PhD student at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance As participants of the second meeting of the CBD Open-ended Working Group on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (OEWG-2020) met in Rome in early February 2020, discussions were buzzing with… Read More »Framing biodiversity policy for post-2020: W4B reflections on Nature-based solutions