<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">20 Days to G20” Global Action e-campaign</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Parallel to the financial crisis, we are faced with other crises which exacerbate the conditions and workload for women and girls, and societies as a whole. The food crisis, featured in yesterday’s action alert, interlinks with the climate change crisis in a variety of ways. Climate change must be understood as a development issue, and as such, cross-cuts all sectors and governments, and has social, cultural, economic and political dimensions, as well as poverty and gender dimensions.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'">Most countries of the world define poverty by income. Yet poor people themselves define their poverty much more broadly—to include lack of education, health care, employment, personal security, resources, and more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">xisting conditions</SPAN> and <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">existing discrimination</SPAN> determine show that it is women, comprising the majority of the world’s poor, who are most impacted by climate change and “natural” disasters. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'">Overall, there are gender implications to climate change which point to an increase in women’s workload and </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRoman">spending more time on traditional reproductive tasks, thus reinforcing traditional roles and magnifying burdens of care.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This, in turn, results in work overload, in </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'">preventing girls from getting an education, and in reducing women’s incomes and opportunities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a result, their capacity to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change is less than that of males. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'">Climate change affects all peoples, those living in both developing as well as industrialized countries. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Last September at the GCAP Poverty Hearings on the MDGs, Monique Essed Vasquez with the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), presented a case on climate change case in which she showed contrasting photos of mothers and children from South East Asia and New Orleans. Both pictures showed the mothers wading in water, one coping with flooding due to a tsunami, and the other, due to Hurricane Katrina (attached). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Due to shrinking government economies around the globe, local and national governments are drastically cutting budgets for already underfunded social services. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are the voices of women missing from the dialogue on climate change, just as they are missing from the discussions on the financial crisis? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Adequately addressing climate change requires women’s input.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It requires the</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'"> development of gender-sensitive approaches with regard to mitigation measures, adaptation projects and national development programs. Governments should ensure that financing mechanisms on mitigation and adaptation address the needs of impoverished women, and should ensure discussions include the political voices of women. <br>
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-- <STRONG>Check out the video<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000033>“The Climate Change Negotiations — an Action Agenda” at</FONT></STRONG> <A href="http://www.un.org/webcast/2009.html">http://www.un.org/webcast/2009.html</A> - select 03 March 2009 </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #000033; LINE-HEIGHT: 135%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Special Event: </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #000033; LINE-HEIGHT: 135%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Side-Event at the <A href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/53sess.htm">53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women</A> - “The Climate Change Negotiations — an Action Agenda”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See program: </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 135%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/se090303pm.pdf"><FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/se090303pm.pdf</FONT></A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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-- <STRONG>Check out the GCAP Poverty Hearings video</STRONG>: <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5vv3ZbIk_g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5vv3ZbIk_g</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">For more information on the Feminist Task Force (FTF) GCAP, go to </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><A title=http://www.whiteband.org/ href="http://www.whiteband.org/" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">www.whiteband.org</SPAN></A><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> or write to Ana Agostino, FTF Coordinator (</SPAN><A title=mailto:ana@icae.org.uy href="mailto:ana@icae.org.uy"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">ana@icae.org.uy</SPAN></A><SPAN style="COLOR: black">) or Rosa Lizarde, “20 Days to G20” coordinator<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(</SPAN><A title=mailto:rosaencasa@aol.com href="mailto:rosaencasa@aol.com"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">rosaencasa@aol.com</SPAN></A><SPAN style="COLOR: black">) ***please do not reply to this message*** </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“20 Days to G20” Global Action e-campaign</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The FTF-GCAP’s “20 Days to G20” Global Action e-campaign highlights the connections between the feminization of poverty and the global financial crisis. Beginning on March 8, International Women’s Day, we will provide daily ACTION ALERTS culminating on March 28, the beginning of the Global Week of Action on the G20 (March 28 – April 4), and feeding into the global mobilizations planned around the G20 meeting of governments on April 2, 2009.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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