[Laredviene] [Gcap-women] UNFCCC Women's Caucus statement - Bits of "women" for a chunk of the earth's population?

[Voices Rising]

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>Dear friends,
>I am sharing with you this statemant we received 
>from the women's caucus at the negotiations of 
>the UNFCCC on climate change. I think is an 
>important document to share with all of you.
>Greetings,
>Ana
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>Ana Agostino
>ICAE
>International Council for Adult Education
>General Secretariat
>18 de Julio 2095 - Apto  301
>11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
>Tel/fax: 005982 409 79 82
>E-mail: <mailto:ana en icae.org.uy>ana en icae.org.uy
>www.icae.org.uy
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>*Apologies for cross-posting*
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>Bits of “women” for a chunk of the earth's population?
>Thursday, 08 October 2009
>Statement of the UNFCCC Women's Caucus - 8 October 2009
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>We, women representing women`s organisation from around the world,
>appreciate UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's recognition of women as
>stakeholders in this process. We are grateful for the United Nations
>Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat led by Mr. Yvo
>de Boer in recognizing us as a possible constituency. However women’s
>leadership and participation in the discussions and ultimately, in the
>implementation of climate change solutions have yet to be clearly
>articulated. While the documents mention “women” at least twenty times,
>“women” mostly appear in the lists of vulnerable groups. Yet women have
>made significant contribution in solving the climate crisis through their
>leadership, experience, perspectives and ideas.
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>We deserve to be included as stakeholders with interests that outstrip
>individual governments and corporate entities particularly those that
>refuse to consider the gendered impacts of climate change. The strong
>integration of gender dimensions in the discussions would have enabled a
>more comprehensive analysis of the causes of climate change. Until today,
>patriarchal politics and corporate greed are the helm of the UNFCCC
>process as it is held hostage by most developed countries that have been
>unconscientiously messing up the planet and are not showing any signs of
>restraint.
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>Women represent half of the world's population. Often through our unpaid
>labor, we provide up to 90 per cent of the household's food and other
>needs. Many of us walk a long distance just to fetch water. Sometimes some
>of us are raped as we set out to gather firewood. Yet we continue to
>venture outside, if only to feed and shelter our families and communities.
>We significantly make up small-scale fisheries which is far less intrusive
>to the marine ecosystem. Despite the deep relationship we have established
>with nature as resource managers, especially in ancestral domains, a
>majority have yet to be accorded land rights, credit, information and a
>string of even the most basic human rights. This situation even worsens as
>access to natural resources becomes scarcer due to climate change.
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>In times of displacement because of extractive industries such as oil
>exploration, mining, rising sea levels, droughts, floods, tsunamis,
>earthquakes and others, women and girls constitute more than half of the
>death toll because of cultural restrictions, lack the necessary knowhow
>and resources to protect themselves While tired and lost, we continue to
>perform our reproductive roles as providers and nurturers wherever and
>however we settle.
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>As women's empowerment primarily comes from women themselves, we need the
>opportunities to meaningfully engage the process, whose framework so
>leaves much to be desired especially in terms of transparency,
>accountability and equity. Women’s participation will be fundamental for
>realization of a gender integrated approach to climate change. It is for
>this reason that we urge governments to include the following paragraph in
>the Shared Vision, which serves as the outcome document’s preamble:
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>“The full integration of gender perspectives is essential to effective
>action on all aspects of climate change, adaptation, mitigation,
>technology sharing, financing, and capacity building. UNFCCC processes
>must ensure compliance with existing women’s rights standards and best
>practice as enshrined in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
>Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
>and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 [Women and Peace-Building]. The
>advancement of women, their leadership and meaningful participation and
>engagement as stakeholders in all climate related processes and
>implementation must be guaranteed.”
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>Contact persons:
>Ulrike Roehr: Mobile: +49 179 2031511, Email: 
><http://us.mc1120.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=u.roehr@gendercc.net>u.roehr en gendercc.net
>Nina Somera: Mobile: +63 921-8122066, Email: 
><http://us.mc1120.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=nina@isiswomen.org>nina en isiswomen.org 
>OR
><http://us.mc1120.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=nina.somera@gmail.com>nina.somera en gmail.com
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