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Monday, 18 January 2010 03:44 |
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DAWN greets the new year by convening the DAWN Development Debates (DDD) – a modest but critical reflection among scholars and activists from all over the world on issues and controversies around crises that have re-emerged with greater intensity from the shifting terrains of global political economy, development, women's rights and gender equality in the 21st century.
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:45 |
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The lives of millions of people are at stake, entire nations are expected to disappear under the ocean, and yet world leaders in Copenhagen failed to commit to necessary measures for an equitable, just and legally binding post-Kyoto agreement to tackle climate change.
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Sunday, 20 December 2009 04:36 |
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Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates, dear colleagues and friends inside and outside Bella Center.
It is our specific role as Women and Gender civil society organizations to work towards the integration of gender perspectives in all aspects of climate policy.
We started from zero: In the past, the gender dimension was completely absent. But as we strengthen our engagement with the UNFCCC, encouraged by the support from some governments, several references to women and to gender have been incorporated in the draft text.
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Friday, 18 December 2009 02:49 |
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By Nina Somera, Isis International
Thirty four people were arrested from yesterday’s “Reclaim Power” mobilisation where civil society protested its exclusion from the climate talks. As in the previous mobilisation where more than 100,000 people showed up on the streets, the police once more unleashed violence as they used teargas and batons in dispersing the protesters.
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Friday, 18 December 2009 03:00 |
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We, women are appalled and alarmed.
After more than 10 days of technical negotiations and with the resignation of the president of this COP supposedly because of “procedure,” there are still no firm and worthwhile commitments on the table. Worse, civil society has been effectively excluded from its already marginal participation.
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 11:12 |
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by Nina Somera, Isis International
Copenhagen, Denmark (16 December 2009) - With the tightened security at the Bella Centre and the resulting marginalisation of civil society organisations (CSOs), a number of CSOs led by farmers, indigenous peoples, women and activist intellectuals such as Naomi Klein walked out of the conference premises, shouting, “Reclaim Power.”
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