WOMEN'S ACTION AGENDA
FOR A PEACEFUL AND HEALTHY PLANET 2015
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 was an
important event for women worldwide, underlining their crucial role in
achieving sustainable development. Specifically chapter 24
of Agenda 21, Global Action for Women Towards Sustainable
and Equitable Development, refers on how to integrate women and gender
issues at all levels.
Women entered the UNCED process with a comprehensive and integrated vision,
the Women's Action Agenda 21. It covers issues of governance and decision
making; environmental ethics and accountability; militarism; global economic
issues such as trade and debt; poverty, land rights and food security;
women's rights, reproductive health and health and environment; biodiversity
and biotechnology; energy; science and technology; women's consumer power;
and information and education.
As these issues remain critical in efforts to achieve sustainable development
from a gender perspective, the Women's Environment and Development Organisation
(WEDO) and the Network for Human Development (REDEH) have initiated a
major revision of Women's Action Agenda 21 in the run up to the World
Summit. The revision process included meetings and consultations from
around the world. The updated version, Women's Action Agenda for a Peaceful
and Healthy Planet 2015 (WAA2015) now sets up the same timeframe as the
UN Millenium Goals. The Action Agenda will serve as a vision for the future
and a document of principles that women worldwide could both contribute
to and use for their own advocacy globally, nationally and locally with
their own governments and other sectors of civil society.
An international working group was established to develop an outline,
prepare a draft and engender a consultation process with women's groups
and networks worldwide. The working group identified ten major themes,
and members were responsible for drafting specific sections that fell
within their area of expertise. A firts draft was distributed widely to
encourage comments and feedback from national, regional and international
women's groups and networks.
The Women's Action Agenda has been finalised now; a summarised version
for the hurried reader is available for download to the right.
THEMES OF THE ACTION AGENDA
- Agenda
21, Participation and the Multi-stakeholder process
- Globalisation:
Transparency and Accountability in Transnational Institutions
- Environmental Dimensions
of Armed Conflict: Role of Women
- Free Market Ideology,
Sustainable Production, and Consumption Sustainable Development in
a Globalizing World
- Democracy, Human rights
and Women's Access to and Control of Resources
- Protecting Environmental
Health and Security
- Gender and Environmental
Dimensions of Population Policies
- Protecting Indigenous
Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use
- The Gender Dimension of
Sustainable Cities
- Education, Communication
and Information Technologies
WORKING GROUP PARTNERS AND CONTACTS
Women's Environment and
Development Organisation
June Zeitlin; june@wedo.org
Network in Defence
of Human Rights
Thais Corral, thaisc@redeh.org.br
Stakeholder
Forum
Minu Hemmati; minush@aol.com
Environment Liaison
Centre International
Annabell W. Waititu; elci@alphanet.co.ke
WECF (Women in Europe for a Common Future)
Irene Dankelman; irened@sci.kun.nl
COWAN (Country Women Association of Nigeria
cowanhoney@infoweb.abs.net
Network of NGOs of Trinidad & Tobago for the Advancement of Women
and CWN (Commonwealth Women's Network)
network@wow.net
Korea Women and Environment Network (KWEN)
Eun-Kyung Park; ekpj@hotmail.com
World Council of Churches Ecumenical Team
Gail Lerner; unlo@wccia.org
NGO Commission on the Status of Women
Leslie Wright; wagggs@yahoo.com
SAGE (Strategic Analysis for Gender Equity)
Anita Nayar; nayaranita@hotmail.com
Heinrich
Boell Foundation
Annekathrin Linck; linck@boell.de
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