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» Insights into Gender & the Environment |
"Insights into Gender and the Environment" is a new series of articles that explores the gender aspect of a wide variety of environmental issues from the perspective of women experts.These experts bring valuable insights to the global debate on gender and the environment and on relations between the genders that impact and are impacted by - the natural world and development efforts Our contributors cover topics that include: Gender Aspects of Global Environmental Governance, Gender Aspects of Land Rights & Management, Women, Agricultural Development and the Environment and others.
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Greater efforts needed to achieve gender balance within UN system
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today called for greater efforts to achieve gender balance within the United Nations system, stating that statistics show an “unacceptable” lack of progress in this area... more |
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Gender and Sustainable Land Management by Svanhild-Isabelle Batta Torheim and Anna Tengberg
The links between land degradation and gender are well documented in the “Land use change, impacts and dynamics (LUCID)” project that was implemented in East Africa by UNEP ...more |
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Gender and Post-Conflict Environment by Maliza Van Eden
A discussion of gender should not be equated with women only, as it refers more broadly to the societal relations between the two sexes... more |
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Real Men Unite by Monika G Wehrle-MacDevette
If States’ failure to incorporate the provisions of treaties they are party to is an indication of progress, then I think its time to go a step further. Hence, my call to action – for men. For men to stand up and firmly say to their peers, their brothers, their sons, their elders, that the time has come to stop, and say an unequivocal NO to the continuing abuse and degradation of women and girls in society...more |
| Disclaimer: The views expressed in these articles do not represent the official position of UNEP.
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» Publications |
 Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assessment and Early Warning |
 Special edition of UNEP's magazine for the Youth - Tunza on Gender equity and the environment.
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 Women and the Environment calls for greater recognition of women's role in conservation and poverty eradication.
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 GEO Year Book 2004/5 - Feature Focus: Gender, Poverty and Environment highlights the Gender and Environment milestones. |
 Special edition of UNEP’s magazine - Our Planet on Women, Health and the Environment underlines their unique vulnerability to environment-related health problems, from water and sanitation issues to ones of indoor air pollution. |
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» Statements / Speeches |
 Message of Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon on International Women's Day - 8th March 2008 on "Investing in Women and Girls",
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Message of Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon on International Women's Day - 8th March 2007
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 Statement by Prof. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, during the opening of the conference of women ministers for the environment and the global women’s assembly on environment: Women As the Voice for the Environment (WAVE). |
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» Press Releases |
 Women Ministers Speak Out on Climate Change
Gender Equality is Essential to Addressing the World's Climate Crisis; Global Institutions and Governments to Bring Message to UN Global Climate Change Conference in Bali |
 UNEP Hosts First Women's Environment Assembly
11 October 2004 – More than 140 prominent women environmentalists from 60 countries, including seven environment ministers and other high level representatives, are meeting at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi between 11 and 13 October to express their concerns about the global environment. [ Français ] |
 Women Environmentalists Demand End to Gender Apartheid
13 October 2004 - Unraveling the impact of toxic chemicals on women and girls and pin pointing their role in the environmental recovery of war-torn zones are among the recommendations made today at the close of a landmark UN Environment Programme conference called WAVE. |
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» Multimedia |
Curtain raiser - Opening video (Windows Media Video File):
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Crossing the Divide, Part 1 - TVE programme
16 July, 2004 – In a two-part programme, Earth Report talks to four environmental activists who have become leading politicians. Their backgrounds could not be more different, but they have all used their green campaigning, as a springboard into politics. Earth Report finds out what motivated them to become politicians, and asks them if they believe they made the right move joining the political establishment? In Part 1 we meet Wangari Maathai, founder of the Kenya's Greenbelt reforestation movement, who became a government minister, and we meet Tuenjai Deetes, the Thai Senator who made her name as an environmental campaigner. |
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