Bhutan+10: Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing WorldnewsSome 170 policy makers, researchers and development practitioners from 27 countries came together for the government of Bhutan’s international conference on gender and sustainable mountain development in October. The conference, Bhutan+10: Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing World, came a decade after Bhutan organized a global event entitled... Read more » |
Mountain Women in a post-Rio+20 worldnewsMountain women will come under the spotlight in October as the government of Bhutan holds an international conference on gender and sustainable mountain development. The conference, Bhutan+10: Gender and Sustainable Mountain Development in a Changing World, is being organized in the context of the Mountain Partnership with key support from the... Read more » |
The Mountain PartnershipnewsThe Mountain Partnership is a United Nations voluntary alliance of partners dedicated to improving the lives of mountain peoples and protecting mountain environments around the world. The partnership addresses the challenges that mountain regions are facing by tapping the wealth and diversity of resources, knowledge, information and expertise, in... Read more » |
Rio+20 and Women’s Lives: a Cross-generational DialogueeventThe Ford Foundation will hold “Rio+20 and Women’s Lives: a Cross-generational Dialogue”, a side event to be held on 20 June 2012, in Rio de Janeiro. At the press briefing, co-sponsored by the Center for Environment and Population (CEP), the Climate Wise Women and the Columbia University Coalition... Read more » |
Third International Women of the Mountains ConferenceeventThe goals of the 2012 Women of the Mountains International Conference were to discuss pressing issues concerning mountain communities in the Andean regions of Peru and Surrounding countries; to continue traditions of two previous international Conferences, organized by UVU and IUK in Orem, Utah in 2007 and 2011; and to... Read more » |
What women want from Rio+20newsAs first recognized twenty years ago, at the UN Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio, women have a vital role in environmental management and development. Their full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development. UN Women, the newest member of the United Nations family, will be championing... Read more » |
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