The CSW 54 ended with lingering questions crying out for answers.
Were there any commitments to protect the universality of women’s rights, including sexual and reproductive rights?
Was there any significant progress on the proposal to set up a separate U.N. agency – officially called a gender entity – for women?
And were there any indications of increased funding for gender-related issues, including resources to battle sexual violence?
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54th Session on the UN Commission on the Status of Women Progress but Huge Political Challenges Ahead
Posted in Economic Justice, Education & Training, Environment, Health, Human Rights, Institutional Mechanisms, Media, Peace, Poverty, Power Sharing, Read before blogging, The Girl Child, Violence, tagged Beijing Plus 15, CSW, feminism, health, Human Rights, women rights on July 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Drought Adds to Hardships in California
Posted in Environment, Poverty on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By JESSE McKINLEY Published: February 21, 2009 MENDOTA, Calif. — The country’s biggest agricultural engine, California’s sprawling Central Valley, is being battered by the recession like farmland most everywhere. But in an unlucky strike of nature, the downturn is being deepened by a severe drought that threatens to drive up joblessness, increase food prices and [...]
A New Earth
Posted in Environment on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Redwood Mary, Co-Chair CAWA Environment Task Force Some thoughts: ” Your goal has to be to get the greenest solutions to the poorest people”.- Van Jones (The New Yorker interview with Elizabeth Kolbert 1-12-09) “You must not deal only with the symptoms. You have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehabilitation [...]
Californians Shape Up as Force on Environmental Policy
Posted in Environment on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by: Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post, TRUTHOUT, December 31, 2008 (Check out our WIN Weblog (http://winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/) for this article and comment – how will you be involved in this environmental policy making effort in California? ) California Democrats will assume pivotal roles in the new Congress and White House, giving the state an outsize influence [...]
