From infor at pacificdisability.org Tue Apr 11 23:44:58 2017 From: infor at pacificdisability.org (Simione Bula) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:44:58 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: NCDs: A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE IN THE PACIFIC In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int [mailto:press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int] On Behalf Of SPC Media Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 11:30 AM Subject: [SPC-News] NCDs: A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE IN THE PACIFIC [ MEDIA RELEASE NCDs: a sustainable development challenge in the Pacific 4 April 2017 Melbourne, Australia ? Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) threaten the very future of small Pacific Island countries and territories and must be decisively addressed as a development crisis in order to nurture a healthy environment that enables healthy lifestyle choices, according to the Pacific Community?s (SPC) Director-General, Dr Colin Tukuitonga. Dr Tukuitonga made these comments in his keynote address today on Sustainable Development Challenges in the Pacific at the 15th World Congress on Public Health, currently underway in Melbourne, Australia. NCDs ? mainly heart disease, cancers, chronic lung diseases and diabetes ? are the leading cause of death in the Pacific region, accounting for up to 75 per cent of mortalities in most Pacific Island countries and territories. These largely preventable and manageable diseases also account for a high proportion of premature deaths in the Pacific. ?Premature death, disability and reduced productivity from NCDs pose a heavy burden on our families and communities but in addition they are creating a socio-economic crisis that immensely challenges our collective vision for Healthy Islands in the Pacific and the achievement of our Sustainable Development Goals,? Dr Tukuitonga said. Pacific Island countries rank among the top 10 countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world for example and as a result in some Pacific Island countries, diabetes care consumes approximately 20 per cent of annual government health care expenditure, in comparison to the global 12 per cent average. ?Pacific leaders are taking proactive measures to addressing NCDs as demonstrated with the approval Pacific NCD Roadmap in 2014 which has resulted in some progress. Urgent action is critical and SPC continues to support the efforts of its Pacific members across many sectors in order to reverse this crisis,? he added. During the weeklong congress, Dr Tukuitonga will also join other internationally recognised public health leaders, politicians, and experts for World Leadership Dialogues, a series of moderated public debates that tackle key issues related to public health. Among key issues for debate are tobacco control, integrating ecological determinants into public health practice and ending childhood obesity in one generation. ?Pacific Island countries and territories rank among the top 12 globally with the highest prevalence of adult obesity and there is no doubt childhood obesity is a major concern for the region, compounding the already overwhelming NCD crisis,? said Dr Tukuitonga, who served as a commissioner for the World Health Organisation (WHO) global Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity from 2014 to 2016. ?At the end of the day, Pacific Island governments need to be accountable to each other to ensure that they deliver on their commitments outlined in the Pacific NCD Roadmap. On the same note, investment by donors and development partners to assist in this fight against NCDs including childhood obesity needs to adequately reflect the mammoth burden at hand,? he said. The World Congress on Public Health, hosted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations, serves as an international forum for the exchange of knowledge and experiences on key public health issues, contributing towards protecting and promoting public health at a national and global level. The final day of the congress coincides with World Health Day on 7 April. Media contacts: Lauren Robinson SPC Media Relations, laurenr at spc.int or +679 337 0733 About SPC The Pacific Community (SPC) is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, proudly supporting development since 1947. We are an international development organisation owned and governed by our 26 country and territory members. Useful links: Pacific Community Director-General Bio 15th World Congress on Public Health -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From infor at pacificdisability.org Tue Apr 11 23:44:51 2017 From: infor at pacificdisability.org (Simione Bula) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:44:51 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: [SPC-News] VANUATU COMMUNITIES TO ACCESS CLEAN AND SAFE DRINKING WATER In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2d5bcf437dd243999498dcc22d7eff78@pacificdisability.org> From: press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int [mailto:press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int] On Behalf Of SPC Media Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2017 9:05 AM Subject: [SPC-News] VANUATU COMMUNITIES TO ACCESS CLEAN AND SAFE DRINKING WATER [ [cid:image005.jpg at 01D2B3B4.6B59AD10] [ELdZ_ml_rgb_en] [KfW logo] [DOWR logo retouch] PRESS RELEASE Vanuatu communities to access clean and safe drinking water 4 April 2017 Port Vila, Vanuatu ? People in Vanuatu without access to clean and safe drinking water will be supported by a new project led by the Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources after the official handover of a new VUT50million (USD 468,050) drill rig, today. The drill rig will be used by the Department to provide ground water bore holes in selected priority areas without access to clean and safe water supply. This will be led by the Vanuatu Government and will include access to remote areas such as Ambae where drilling is expected to begin in late April once the team is trained on the new equipment. The National Disaster Management Office and the National Advisory Board of Vanuatu have both been instrumental in prioritising this critical need and supported the delivery of the work through the European Union funded Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific Project, which is implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC). The funding is in partnership with KfW on behalf of the German Government as part of the longer term recovery efforts from Cyclone Pam that devastated the country in early 2015. This work is even more critical given the recent El Ni?o weather conditions causing significant dry weather across the country but the impact this work will have to ensure communities have access to safe drinking water both on a consistent basis and immediately after disasters such as Cyclone Pam ensures long-term sustainable development for communities across the country. Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Honourable Ralph Regenvanu said ?access to water is a basic human right and one that we want to ensure every Ni-Vanuatu has access to. We face great challenges with access to the right equipment needed and geographical challenges but we also face the risk of hazards like cyclones so it is an exceptional partnership that will help ensure these communities have access to a sustainable source of water into the future.? Pacific Community (SPC) Melanesia Director, Mia Rimon, said she is enthusiastic such a strong partnership has been created to ensure long-term and sustainable work that will genuinely help people get access to safe and clean drinking water across the country. ?This work is being led by the Vanuatu Government and we are providing them with scientific and technical support to ensure water scarce communities across the country can benefit from this new equipment. This is a priority of SPC to ensure we are best supporting member countries in disaster risk management and reducing the impact of future disasters. The government of Vanuatu should be very proud of this exemplary work,? she said. European Union Ambassador for Vanuatu Leonidas Tezapsidis said work like this, driven by national governments and supported by technical experts across the region, is work all partners should be proud of. ?The European Union is committed to supporting the reduction of disaster impact on communities. This work will help the people of Vanuatu access water in future disaster situations. It will also ensure that communities access their groundwater for the first time,? he said. The drill rig will be officially handed over to the Vanuatu Government today at 10.30am in the Mines and Minerals carpark. Media contacts: Annie Samuels. Advocacy and Public Relations Officer, Department of Water. Vanuatu. Phone: (678) 7377944 or email: asamuels at vanuatu.gov.vu Cecile Depuille. KFW Finance and Project Officer, Pacific Community (SPC), Phone: (678) 5632381 ceciled at spc.int Note to Editors: Any interview or media requests can be forwarded to the above contacts. 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Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From infor at pacificdisability.org Tue Apr 11 23:45:29 2017 From: infor at pacificdisability.org (Simione Bula) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:45:29 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: WAKE UP! YOUTH PROJECT TO RAISE AWARENESS ON NCDs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int [mailto:press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int] On Behalf Of SPC Media Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 9:37 AM Subject: [SPC-News] WAKE UP! YOUTH PROJECT TO RAISE AWARENESS ON NCDs [ [UNDP logo with TAGLINE] JOINT MEDIA RELEASE Wake up! Youth project to raise awareness on NCDs 6 April 2017 Suva, Fiji ? The Pacific Community (SPC) and the United Nations Development Programme?s (UNDP) Pacific Office in Fiji are inviting youth in participating Pacific countries and territories to develop and submit proposals for video projects designed to sensitize the youth population on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors. Young people between 15 to 25 years old from Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tonga, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna are eligible to enter the competition which is co- funded by the Pacific Fund, SPC and UNDP. The five winning entries will have the opportunity to work with a professional production company and undertake special training in order to produce a broadcast quality video based on their submitted concept. As the leading cause of preventable death and disability in the region, NCDs, principally diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as well as cancers, constitute a crisis of epidemic proportion with major implications for the future development of Pacific countries and territories. As increasing numbers of people develop one of these diseases in their thirties and forties, prevention must start at an earlier age. Studies in the Pacific show that many adolescents are overweight with an increasing number becoming obese. In addition, some diseases such as diabetes Type 2, which are usually only observed in adults, are now being diagnosed in teenagers. ?Unfortunately prevention projects addressing NCDs are rarely appealing to the adolescent population. Few are innovative, fewer engage or utilize visual arts and social media and even fewer are developed by youth themselves which reinforces the misperception that NCDs are only diseases of the old age and do not concern young people,? said UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji Policy Specialist for HIV, Health and Development, Ferdinand Strobel. ?The SPC & UNDP initiative will see select groups of youth undergo training in health communication using video and will receive support from professionals to realize their health promotion projects. Young people have a key role to play in building strong populations. By teaching young people to adopt healthy behaviours, we can reduce the early onset of non-communicable diseases,? said SPC NCD Officer, Sol?ne Bertrand-Protat. The initiative will also contribute to the development of skills and knowledge among participants and encourage engagement in youth to youth health promotion activities. Acquired skills will include project management, basics of public health, audiovisual production, and health promotion messaging using technology (web and social networks) which will provide benefits beyond the project as well as create a network of potential youth ambassadors for NCDs and invigorate exchange between youth from select Pacific Island countries and French territories around these issues. More information can be found here: http://www.spc.int/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Call-for-proposals_Pacific-Youth-and-Health_2017.pdf Competition closes on 30 April. 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Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From infor at pacificdisability.org Tue Apr 11 23:45:51 2017 From: infor at pacificdisability.org (Simione Bula) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:45:51 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: [SPC-News] TONGA TO HOST PACIFIC REGIONAL ENERGY AND TRANSPORT MINISTERS MEETING In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: From: press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int [mailto:press-releases-bounces at lists.spc.int] On Behalf Of SPC Media Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 11:24 AM Subject: [SPC-News] TONGA TO HOST PACIFIC REGIONAL ENERGY AND TRANSPORT MINISTERS MEETING [ [images] JOINT PRESS RELEASE Tonga to host Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Ministers Meeting 11 April 2017 Nuku?alofa, Tonga ? Over 100 high-level delegates and experts will convene in Tonga at the end of April for the Third Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Ministerial Meeting to discuss the latest international and regional developments in energy and transport sectors affecting the region. The high-level meeting, which will be hosted at the Fa?onelua Convention Centre in Nuku?alofa, will cover energy and transport challenges and priorities included in the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific, the Framework for Action on Energy Security in the Pacific and the regional Framework for Action on Transport Services. ?The meeting is timely. Individually as sovereign nations, we have obligations to these global and regional instruments, but more importantly, to our own respective nationally determined contributions and government?s energy and transport targets and aspirations. The meeting will therefore look at adopting regional positions, which we can task our regional agencies and partners to assist us on and which we can go out to global forums and negotiations and promote with an united voice,? said Hon. Siaosi 'Ofakivahafolau Sovaleni, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications (MEIDECC) and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Pacific Community Director-General Dr Colin Tukuitonga said: ?This meeting provides an important platform for energy and transport ministers to discuss and commit to regional positions and interventions that will complement national efforts towards achieving accessible, affordable, safe and clean energy and transport services for all in the Pacific region in the context of sustainable development.? The theme of this year?s meeting is Affordable, Reliable and Sustainable Energy and Transport Services for All, which supports the vision of Pacific energy and transport ministers of their sectors being key pillars to enable sustainable development and eradicate poverty. The week-long meeting will feature a combined plenary for energy and transport officials ahead of the ministers meeting. High on the agenda for energy officials are discussions around needed reforms and regional commitments to facilitate the rapid transition of the region to a more cost competitive, reliable and low carbon economies. Transport officials will have the opportunity to explore among other things, ways to improve the governance of the maritime sector; the energy efficiency and safety of shipping and ports; prevent marine pollution; facilitate access and contribution of women to the maritime sector; and improve coordination and contribution of Pacific Island countries to international negotiations. The energy and transport ministers will consider the resolutions of the officials and will also discuss the concept of Green and Blue Economy as well as the challenges of access to multilateral environment funding to support addressing the region?s energy and transport challenges. As part of the week?s events, SPC together with its members and partners will celebrate its 70th Anniversary in Tonga. The inauguration of the Nuku?alofa-based Pacific Centre of Excellence on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (PCREEE) will also take place. The Centre is part of a global network of regional centres and will work alongside Pacific Island countries and territories to accelerate their progress towards their respective national renewable energy and energy efficiency targets. Among the high-level speakers at the meeting will be the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, LI Yong, the CEO of the Sustainable Energy for ALL (SE4ALL) & Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for ALL, Rachel Kyte, and the Director of the Technical Cooperation Division of the International Maritime Organization, Nicolaos Charalambous. The Third Pacific Regional Meeting for Energy and Transport Ministers? Meeting is scheduled for 24 to 28 April. Media access: Media representatives are welcome to attend. Media interested in covering the Third Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Ministers? Meeting are invited to contact Inga Mangisi-Mafileo, Acting Director ? SPC Communications and Public Information, fonongam at spc.int or +679 337 9451. Follow the event via #PRETMM. Footage and still images: SPC will provide packaged interviews and raw footage for free use, along with still images. 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Over 100 high-level delegates and experts will convene in Tonga at the end of April for the Third Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Ministerial Meeting to discuss the latest international and regional developments in energy and transport sectors affecting the region. The high-level meeting, which will be hosted at the Fa?onelua Convention Centre in Nuku?alofa, will cover energy and transport challenges and priorities included in the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific, the Framework for Action on Energy Security in the Pacific and the regional Framework for Action on Transport Services. ?The meeting is timely. Individually as sovereign nations, we have obligations to these global and regional instruments, but more importantly, to our own respective nationally determined contributions and government?s energy and transport targets and aspirations. The meeting will therefore look at adopting regional positions, which we can task our regional agencies and partners to assist us on and which we can go out to global forums and negotiations and promote with an united voice,? said Hon. Siaosi 'Ofakivahafolau Sovaleni, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications (MEIDECC) and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Pacific Community Director-General Dr Colin Tukuitonga said: ?This meeting provides an important platform for energy and transport ministers to discuss and commit to regional positions and interventions that will complement national efforts towards achieving accessible, affordable, safe and clean energy and transport services for all in the Pacific region in the context of sustainable development.? The theme of this year?s meeting is Affordable, Reliable and Sustainable Energy and Transport Services for All, which supports the vision of Pacific energy and transport ministers of their sectors being key pillars to enable sustainable development and eradicate poverty. The week-long meeting will feature a combined plenary for energy and transport officials ahead of the ministers meeting. High on the agenda for energy officials are discussions around needed reforms and regional commitments to facilitate the rapid transition of the region to a more cost competitive, reliable and low carbon economies. Transport officials will have the opportunity to explore among other things, ways to improve the governance of the maritime sector; the energy efficiency and safety of shipping and ports; prevent marine pollution; facilitate access and contribution of women to the maritime sector; and improve coordination and contribution of Pacific Island countries to international negotiations. The energy and transport ministers will consider the resolutions of the officials and will also discuss the concept of Green and Blue Economy as well as the challenges of access to multilateral environment funding to support addressing the region?s energy and transport challenges. As part of the week?s events, SPC together with its members and partners will celebrate its 70th Anniversary in Tonga. The inauguration of the Nuku?alofa-based Pacific Centre of Excellence on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (PCREEE) will also take place. The Centre is part of a global network of regional centres and will work alongside Pacific Island countries and territories to accelerate their progress towards their respective national renewable energy and energy efficiency targets. Among the high-level speakers at the meeting will be the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, LI Yong, the CEO of the Sustainable Energy for ALL (SE4ALL) & Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for ALL, Rachel Kyte, and the Senior Deputy Director of the Technical Cooperation Division of the International Maritime Organization, Juvenal Shiundu. The Third Pacific Regional Meeting for Energy and Transport Ministers? Meeting is scheduled for 24 to 28 April. Media access: Media representatives are welcome to attend. Media interested in covering the Third Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Ministers? Meeting are invited to contact Inga Mangisi-Mafileo, Acting Director ? SPC Communications and Public Information, fonongam at spc.int or +679 337 9451. Follow the event via #PRETMM. Footage and still images: SPC will provide packaged interviews and raw footage for free use, along with still images. For more information and to lodge specific requests, please contact Kelepi Koroi: kelepik at spc.int About Us: SPC is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, supporting sustainable development since 1947. It is an intergovernmental development organisation owned and governed by its 26 country and territory members. Useful links: http://prdrse4all.spc.int/data/content/third-pacific-regional-energy-and-transport-ministers-meeting-24-28-april-2017 www.spc.int/edd http://www.pcreee.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 18760 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6385 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Pacific Community (SPC) offers its congratulations on the appointment of the Kingdom of Tonga?s Fekita ?Utoikamanu to the esteemed position of United Nations High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States by the United Nation?s Secretary-General, Mr Antonio Guterres. SPC Director-General, Dr Colin Tukuitonga congratulated ?Utoikamanu, a former SPC Deputy Director-General, with assurances of SPC?s support in carrying her duties forward and the important work of the global multilateral body. ?SPC joins the global community in unified voice and common agenda for sustainable development. From the Pacific, climate change and sustainable environmental management is especially pressing, and it brings us great pleasure that Ms ?Utoikamanu has been appointed to champion these and other efforts of global concern,? Dr Tukuitonga said. ?Utoikamanu is an accomplished and well respected diplomat, and we are confident that she will lead her office and their important programmes of work with great vision, integrity and resolve,? he concluded. Ms ?Utoikamanu was SPC?s Deputy Director-General from 2009 to 2015. Prior to that, she served as Tonga?s Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations, United States of America, Cuba and Venezuela and High Commissioner to Canada. SPC is a Permanent Observer to the UN since 2014, following the adoption of a resolution by the UN General Assembly. Media contact: Inga Mangisi-Mafileo Acting Director, Communications and Public Information, SPC fonongam at spc.int or +679 337 9451 About Us: SPC is the principal scientific and technical organisation in the Pacific region, supporting sustainable development since 1947. 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Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From gender at pacificdisability.org Wed Apr 12 22:51:23 2017 From: gender at pacificdisability.org (Gender & Youth) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:51:23 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: [WUNRN] UN Special Rapporteur Call for Submissions - Impact of Fundamentalism & Extremism on Cultural Rights of Women In-Reply-To: <004701d2b2b2$15f9f030$41edd090$@gmail.com> References: <004701d2b2b2$15f9f030$41edd090$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <72065cbe63724c9aa0d334dc02661f67@pacificdisability.org> From: WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com] On Behalf Of WUNRN LISTSERVE Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 10:55 PM To: WUNRN ListServe Subject: [WUNRN] UN Special Rapporteur Call for Submissions - Impact of Fundamentalism & Extremism on Cultural Rights of Women WUNRN http://www.wunrn.com UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights - Website: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/SRCulturalRightsIndex.aspx SR new report to the UN human rights council on Fundamentalism, Extremism and Cultural Rights, in all regions, involving state and non-state actors. A/HRC/34/56 - http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/CulturalRights/A_HRC_34_56_EN.docx Call in English: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/Callsubmissions2017GAreport.aspx Call in French: http://www.ohchr.org/FR/Issues/droitsculturels/Pages/Callsubmissions2017GAreport.aspx Call in Spanish: http://www.ohchr.org/SP/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/Callsubmissions2017GAreport.aspx RAPPORTEUR CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - IMPACT OF FUNDAMENTALISM & EXTREMISM ON CULTURAL RIGHTS OF WOMEN The United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Ms. Karima Bennoune, is inviting all relevant stakeholders to contribute to a consultation on the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on the cultural rights of women. In her last report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights presented an overview of the impact of diverse forms of fundamentalism and extremism on the enjoyment of cultural rights (S She also indicated her intention to study this issue further for her upcoming report to the General Assembly. This follow up report will focus on the impact of fundamentalism and extremism, as defined in A/HRC/34/56 - See above link, on the cultural rights of women. In order to assess the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on women's enjoyment of cultural rights and challenges related to the rights of women to access, take part in and contribute to cultural life, and to contribute to and enjoy the arts and science, the Special Rapporteur has prepared the questionnaire below and invited all States, United Nations agencies, academics and civil society organizations to send their contributions. She strongly encourages those making contributions to read her report A/HRC/34/56 - See above link, as well as the report of the first mandate holder on the cultural rights of women. Where necessary, contributors should carefully explain the cultural rights impact of any issues they report on. Contributions would be particularly appreciated on the following issues: * The impact of fundamentalism and extremism on women's human rights, with a focus on cultural rights, as guaranteed by Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights2 and Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as related concerns arising in regard to the right to education, the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the right to freedom of conscience and religion or belief. How do fundamentalist and extremist ideologies as conceptualized in A/HRC/34/56 limit the opportunities for women to exercise their rights: * to access, take part in and contribute to cultural life without discrimination, including having the freedom of movement needed to do so and the right to work; * to participate in the development of scientific progress and the arts, as well as to access and enjoy the benefits of their applications; * to pursue education and * to take part in the interpretation and development of their culture, including their cultural heritage and practices, at all relevant levels of decision-making and governance? What are the particular impacts on the rights of diverse women, including girls, women living with disabilities, lesbian, homosexuals, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT), women belonging to indigenous or minority groups, migrant, internally displaced and refugee, and rural women, widows, women living in poverty or any other relevant group of women? * Examples of different situations illustrating these matters, which may be included in the report (reflecting geographical diversity, normative and regulatory practices by States / Non-States actors, situations of explicit / implicit and structural limitations, different forms of pressure, including threats and calls for retaliation, discrimination and violence, etc.); * Examples of general good practices, whether in the use of existing instruments protecting human rights, including the principle of equality between men and women, or in designing measures to challenge fundamentalist and extremist views, including through strengthening freedom of peaceful assembly and association, education in accordance with international standards, freedom of opinion and expression for all and respect for cultural diversity and cultural rights; * Examples of efficient and innovative specific measures and practices aiming at the prevention, protection, reparation and remedy of abuses of the cultural rights of women motivated by fundamentalist and extremist ideologies, including through human and cultural rights education and awareness; * Examples (at the local and national levels, both public and in an independent capacity) of any body, that as part of its mandate and in accordance with international standards, undertakes the monitoring of and response to fundamentalist and extremist threats in society, including against women, women's rights and women human rights defenders, and any specific mechanisms in place to receive and assess complaints and reports from citizens and civil society organisations, including women human rights defenders, that would raise concerns about fundamentalist and extremist discourses and practices. Where relevant, please include as well examples of measures taken to provide protection and reparation for victims, and any steps taken to ensure that such measures and mechanisms are gender sensitive; * Examples of measures your country has taken to respect, maintain and positively value cultural diversity, the universality of human rights and the syncretic nature of culture and religion, including in educational programmes, as specifically relevant to ensuring women's human rights; * Examples of measures your country has taken to provide for and protect the separation of religion and State, and guarantee the freedom of religion or belief. Please specify how these measures respect and ensure the rights of women, in particular in regard to fundamentalist and extremist abuses of their cultural rights; * Relevant cases of human rights defenders, including cultural rights defenders and women human rights defenders, as well as any person expressing dissent from fundamentalism and extremism who is at risk as a result. Please include measures taken to protect the rights of such persons and support their work defending the cultural rights of women from fundamentalist and extremist movements. Please send submissions electronically no later than 19 May 2017 to srculturalrights at ohchr.org, using the email title: "Submission to study on impact of fundamentalism and extremism on women's cultural rights". Kindly limit your responses to 2,500 words and attach annexes where necessary. Please also indicate if you have any objections with regard to your reply being posted on the OHCHR website. 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Fiji, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Suriname have been scheduled to report to the CEDAW Committee at the 69th CEDAW session in Feb 2018. We believe that local NGOs have a lot to gain from this process and our ?From Global to Local? programme was developed to ensure NGOs can voice their issues at the international level. If your organisation is from these countries and are seeking to submit an NGO shadow report in Feb 2018, please note you should also submit information for the presession which happens in July 2017. Why we are contacting NGO groups from these countries now: Prior to the actual review, NGOs have the opportunity to intervene at the Pre-Session which will be taking place in July 2017 in Geneva. a. What is the Pre-Session and why should NGOs engage with it? ? The CEDAW pre-session happens several months before the session at which the formal review of the government is scheduled (usually 2 sessions before). This is where the CEDAW review process begins. ? A pre-session working group of the CEDAW Committee meets to review States Parties reports and any additional information that has been submitted during the pre-session. The pre-session working group comprises about five or more members of the CEDAW Committee. During this review, the working group identifies gaps in information and sends the government a list of questions and issues that the government must answer in writing before the formal review ? The pre-session is very important, as it determines the direction, tone and issues for dialogue between the CEDAW Committee and your government during the CEDAW Session. It is your last chance to get the government to submit written information on certain issues that the government may have overlooked or may be trying to avoid in its report. It is very important for NGOs to send information on issues related to women in their country for the CEDAW pre-session, as this can assist the CEDAW Committee?s pre-session working group in framing the questions it will ask your government during the CEDAW review. b. What is a List of Critical Issues and Questions Your list of issues and questions should include: ? the most important issues facing women in your country, ? what is missing in the government?s report and ? what you want the Committee to ask your government to raise their understanding/perspective about priorities and the solutions that have been implemented. Your list of issues and questions need not be long or complicated, as long as it allows the working group to better understand what is happening in your country. It should be structured article by article, from Articles 1-16 (which are the substantive articles of the CEDAW Convention). Please refer to the shadow report guidelines for guidance on structuring of information. If you already have a draft shadow/alternative report, you can submit the draft with a list of priority issues and gaps in the state report. Feedback from some Committee members is that they find lists of issues or executive summaries highlighting key issues, to be more helpful than exhaustive reports at this point. Therefore, if you intend to submit a draft or final version of your shadow/alternative report, we encourage you to highlight the key concerns, issues, and questions they would like the Committee to focus on in a list of issues and questions or in an executive summary. c. When is the Pre-Session and how do to submit information: The Pre-Session Working Group for this session is likely to meet 24-28 July 2017 which is during the 60th Session. NGO submissions/shadow reports must be made 3 weeks before the beginning of the 67th Session (June 9 2015 -DEADLINE) and should be sent directly to:cedaw at ohchr.org, with a cc to IWRAW Asia Pacific (iwraw-ap at iwraw-ap.org) so that IWRAW Asia Pacific can follow up with the secretariat to ensure that the information is received. You may also post copies of the shadow report to its office in Geneva: CEDAW Secretariat Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson 52, rue des P?quis CH-1201 Geneva Switzerland d. Attending the CEDAW pre-session: The Pre-session working group sets aside some time for NGOs to address it during the Pre-session on the 24th July. NGO representatives can choose to attend the Pre-session (should they have funds to do so) and present information at the meeting of the Pre-Session Working Group. To attend the pre-session, you will need to obtain UN passes by contacting the OHCHR directly. 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URL: From gender at pacificdisability.org Wed Apr 12 22:46:35 2017 From: gender at pacificdisability.org (Gender & Youth) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:46:35 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: [WUNRN] Land & Gender In-Reply-To: <006101d2b379$fe63e520$fb2baf60$@gmail.com> References: <006101d2b379$fe63e520$fb2baf60$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <08ef278bcace4e26a1578c33ff27d6a4@pacificdisability.org> From: WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com] On Behalf Of WUNRN LISTSERVE Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:46 PM To: WUNRN ListServe Subject: [WUNRN] Land & Gender WUNRN http://www.wunrn.com https://landportal.info/book/thematic/land-and-gender Land & Gender [land and gender] To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and promote gender equity in access to land, laws, institutions, and customary practices that are gender discriminatory need to be addressed. >From large land acquisitions that displace communities without due compensation, to the encroachment of mining on indigenous lands, to the brunt of climate change and natural disasters, to everyday land and property deprivation by kin or state, women are typically more harshly impacted by land tenure insecurity due to discriminatory laws and lingering social bias. For millions of rural women their nexus to the land - their lifeline, home, livelihood, and social security - often teeters on the strength of their relationship to their father, husband, brother or son. In many contexts, they lack direct, unmediated rights to the land. They face layers of discrimination in both the law and in practice, fueled by their gender, race, ethnicity, affiliation, orientation, age, or social status. Laws and social norms impose barriers to women?s right to own and access to land. In more than half the world, laws, and more often gender bias, and discriminatory social norms[1] entrench women?s unequal rights to access, use, inherit, transfer, control, benefit from, and own land discount their input into decisions about the fate of their land, and dismiss their compensation or redress claims when the land is taken by an investor, corporation, powerful local leader, the government, or even their kin. Research affirms that secure land rights can be transformational[2] for women, their families, and communities. The Global Agenda for Sustainable Development[3] spotlights land as a critical driver, and regional efforts reflect growing political support for women?s land rights. Broad coalitions of NGOs and civil society rally around regional and global calls. The Deliver for Good campaign[4] spotlights women?s land rights as critical to a holistic gender-responsive implementation of the sustainable development agenda. A recently launched Africa Land Policy Initiative campaign calls for 30 percent of documented land in women?s name individually or jointly[5]. Women across the globe have formed collectives and networks and forged innovative approaches to secure land rights for communities, within communities and households. Women to Kilimanjaro mobilized women across Africa to climb up the continent?s highest peak to stand up for women?s right to land[6]. Indigenous women in Latin America and Asia - often at great personal risk - are leading movements for rights to their land and resources[7]. Numbers According to UN Women, women make up on average less than 20 percent of the world?s landholders[8]. Yet there is no global or consistent national data on the true scope of women?s land rights. Efforts to quantify women?s land ownership is often criticized because no clear, universal definition of land ?ownership? for women exists, and women (and men) can access and use land under a broad range of legal and customary land tenure arrangements. Based on evidence across multiple measures of land ownership, women do own less land and have less secure rights over land than men[9], but there is no systematically collected data[10] on women?s land rights or access to land. Governments? high-level commitment to land rights reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals could potentially revolutionize data collection on women?s rights to land. Goal 1 on ending poverty stands to generate comprehensive, systemic evidence of both state-documented land rights and women?s (and men?s) perceptions of the security of their land tenure (to be captured by Goal 1?s Indicator 1.4.2)[11]. The hundreds of millions of women who depend on land for their livelihood, survival, and housing stand to benefit immensely if laws, policies, and programs become better informed by such evidence, on local, national, and global level. Laws and Practice Under formal law[12], women have equal property rights in 115 countries and equal inheritance rights in 93 countries. However, the 2012 Social Institutions and Gender Index of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that in 79 countries where women have equal rights to own and access land in formal law, discriminatory practices curtail such rights in practice[13]. Even where land access is legally enshrined, women are often relegated to smaller, lesser quality plots, lack access to requisite agricultural extensions services, and face lingering gender bias and discrimination within families and communities and by officials implementing land reform schemes[14]. Community and Collective Land Rights Women are particularly and adversely impacted when community and indigenous peoples? collective land rights are disregarded. Despite a history of customary use and ownership of over 50 percent of the world?s land area, ownership and control by the world?s Indigenous People and local communities - up to 2.5 billion women and men - is only legally recognized for a fifth of the land that is rightfully theirs[15]. Rapidly expanding land and natural resources-based investments and development projects often lead to the displacement of Indigenous People and local communities, with women adversely and disproportionately affected[16],due in part to their unequal participation in shaping community governance and national policies. As governments increasingly seek to recognize communities? land rights, the definition of communities and of community membership and rights continue to reflect a gender bias. In many settings, women are seen as ?transient? members of the community, expected to ?marry out? of their birth communities. These women often lose their natal community rights upon marriage, without being fully accepted as members of their marital communities. Communities with polygamous arrangements further complicate and dilute women?s land rights. Land Governance and Decision-Making Women?s participation and leadership in rural councils responsible for major land-related decisions, including allocations and investments, remains the exception. Women rarely head or chair rural councils[17] in Bangladesh (0.2 percent) and Cambodia (7 percent). In Tanzania, where progressive laws mandate at least 25 percent council-level participation by women but do not require a gender quorum, women continue to be absent, silent or marginalized in discussions about major decisions affecting the entire community, including the fate of their livelihood. A 2016 World Resources Institute study of Tanzania, Mozambique and the Philippines concluded that ?women?s lower rates of literacy, limited mobility, and care responsibilities can also present barriers to the exercise of their rights[18].? Climate Change and Natural Resources As the bulk of the world?s poor and those who most rely on land and natural resources for their livelihood, women are hardest hit by climate change[19].Research shows that women in the regions of the world most affected by climate change-Africa and South Asia-bear the brunt of increased natural disasters, displacement, unpredictable rain fall, decreased food production, and increased hunger and poverty. Even well-intentioned government and private conservation or carbon markets efforts can result in devastating results for women who depend on forests or natural resources for their livelihood and survival but lack recognized rights to them. Emerging evidence suggests that when women hold secure rights to land, efforts to tackle climate change are more successful[20],and responsibilities and benefits associated with climate change response programs are more equitably distributed. Conversely, without effective legal control over the land they farm or the proceeds of their labor, women often lack the incentive, security, opportunity, or authority to make decisions about ways to conserve the land and to ensure its long-term productivity. Nonetheless, overemphasis on women as chief stewards of the environment has been criticized for over-whelming women?s already heavy, disproportionate caretaking load, whether of the home, or of the planet. Empowerment Effect Research demonstrates links between strengthening women?s rights to land and productive assets and women?s increased participation in household decision making. Women?s land rights are generally considered secure if they are defined clearly and for a known duration; socially and legally legitimate and recognized; unaffected by changes in social status that would not affect men?s tenure security (such as dissolution of marriage by divorce or death), enforceable and directly exercisable without an additional layer of approval that applies only to women. Secure land rights for women contribute to powerful continued ripple effects[21], including: * Greater status and bargaining -power in the household and the community[22, 23] * Better nutrition and food security for women and their families[24] * Higher earning and individual savings[25] * Improved access to micro-credit and formal loans[26] * Greater food and harvest productivity[27] * Decreased vulnerability to contracting HIV and better ability to manage it[28] * Potential reduction in domestic violence[29] * Improved family health[30] * Educational gains for children, including for girls[31] References [1] The Law of the Land: Women?s Rights to Land. Landesa at www.landesa.org/resources/property-not-poverty/ (link is external) [2] Women?s Land Rights. (2016). Landesa at www.landesa.org/resources/womens-land-rights-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/ (link is external) [3] 17 Goals to Transform Our World. United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals at http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ (link is external) [4] Deliver for Good, Accelerate Access to Resources - Land, Clean Energy, Water, and Sanitation (2016), at http://womendeliver.org/investment/accelerate-access-resources-land-clean-energy-water-sanitation. (link is external) [5] Launch of the 30% Campaign for Women?s Land Ownership in Africa. (2016). United Nations Economic Commission for Africa at http://www.uneca.org/campaign (link is external) [6] Action Aid, The Kilimanjaro Initiative: mobilising rural women (2016) at http://www.actionaid.org/2016/09/kilimanjaro-initiative-mobilising-rural-women (link is external) [7] Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Indigenous women are raising their voices and can no longer be ignored (Aug. 7, 2015) at https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/07/international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-women-victoria-tauli-corpuz-un-special-rapporteur (link is external). [8] Facts & Figures. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women at http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/commission-on-the-status-of-women-2012/facts-and-figures (link is external) [9] R. Meinzen-Dick, S. Theis, & A. Quisumbing. (October 2016). Three Myths about Rural Women. International Food Policy Research Institute at http://www.ifpri.org/blog/three-myths-about-rural-women (link is external) [10] C. Doss. (May 2016). We Don?t Know How Many Women Own Land. Why?. Thomson Reuters Foundation News at http://news.trust.org/item/20160516120134-jqvsx (link is external) [11] Goal 1: End Poverty in All its Forms Everywhere. (June 2016). United Nations Statistics Division at http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/metadata-compilation/Metadata-Goal-1.pdf (link is external) [12] Progress of the World?s Women. (2011-2012). United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women at http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2011/progressoftheworldswomen-2011-en.pdf (link is external) [13] The Law of the Land: Women?s Rights to Land. Landesa at www.landesa.org/resources/property-not-poverty/ (link is external) [14] FAO. The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011. Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap in Development, p.23, at http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i2050e/i2050e.pdf. (link is external) [15] F. Pearce. (2016). Common Ground: Securing Land Rights and Safeguarding the Earth. International Land Coalition at http://www.landcoalition.org/sites/default/files/documents/resources/bp-common-ground-land-rights-020316-en.pdf (link is external) [16] E. Daley. (January 2011) Gendered Impacts of Commercial Pressures on Land. International Land Coalition at http://www.landcoalition.org/sites/default/files/documents/resources/MOKORO_Gender_web_11.03.11.pdf (link is external) [17] Facts & Figures: Rural Women and the Millennium Development Goals. United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Rural Women at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/ruralwomen/facts-figures.html (link is external) [18] M. Morarji, C. Salcedo-La Vina. (July 2016). Making Women?s Voices Count in Community Decision-Making on Land Investments. World Resources Institute at http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/Making_Womens_Voices_Count_In_Community_Decision-Making_On_Land_Investments.pdf (link is external) [19] E. Neumayer, T. Pluemper. (January 2007). The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expentancy, 1981-2002. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol. 97, No. 3, pp. 551-566, 2007 at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=874965 (link is external) [20] C. Caron, A. Goldstein, A. Knox, J. Miner. (November 2010). The Interface of Land and Natural Resource Tenure and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies: Challenges and Options. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization at http://foris.fao.org/static/data/nrc/Knox_etal_Tenure_and_CCM.pdf (link is external) [21] Women?s Land Rights. (2016). Availabe at: www.landesa.org/resources/womens-land-rights-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/ (link is external) [22] C. Deere, C. Doss. (2008). Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries. In Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective. Ed. by James Davies. [23] B. Agarwal. (1997). ?Bargaining? and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household. Feminist Economics. 3(1): 1-51. [24] Women?s empowerment and voice in household decision making leads to an increase in spending allocated to food, healthcare, and education which improve children?s wellbeing in the present as well as future human capital. See: K. Allendorf. (2007) Do Women?s Land Rights Promote Empowerment and Child Health in Nepal?. World Development 35(11):1975?1988. N. Menon, Y. van der Meulen Rodgers, & H. Nguyen. (2014). Women?s Land Rights and Children?s Human Capital in Vietnam. World Development, 54, 18-31. C. Doss. (2006). The Effects of Intrahousehold Property Ownership on Expenditure Patterns in Ghana. Journal of African Economies, 15(1), 149-180. [25] Peterman found that secure access to land led to a four-fold increase in income and thirty-five percent higher savings rate. See: A. Peterman. (2011). Women?s Property Rights and Gendered Policies: Implications for Women?s Long-term Welfare in Rural Tanzania. The Journal of Development Studies 47(1): 1-30. [26] K. Saito, et al. (1994). Raising the Productivity of Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Bank Research Report, 1(1):1-110 p. 95. [27] Women?s empowerment and voice in household decision making leads to an increase in spending allocated to food, healthcare, and education which improve children?s wellbeing in the present as well as future human capital. K. Allendorf. (2007) Do Women?s Land Rights Promote Empowerment and Child Health in Nepal?. World Development 35(11):1975?1988. N. Menon, Y. van der Meulen Rodgers, & H. Nguyen. (2014). Women?s Land Rights and Children?s Human Capital in Vietnam. World Development, 54, 18-31. C. Doss. (2006). The Effects of Intrahousehold Property Ownership on Expenditure Patterns in Ghana. Journal of African Economies, 15(1), 149-180. [28] Research has also indicated that secure land rights make women less vulnerable to HIV as well as better able to manage it. See: R.S. Strickland. (2004). To Have and To Hold: Women?s Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (Working Paper). Washington, DC: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) C. Sweetman. (2008). How Title Deeds Make Sex Safer: Women?s Property Rights in an Era of HIV (From Poverty to Power: Background Paper): Oxfam International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). (2006). Reducing Women?s and Girls? Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS by Strengthening their Property and Inheritance Rights. at http://data.unaids.org/pub/InformationNote2006/2006_icrw_property_rights... (link is external) [29] Research has shown that women with secure land access were eight times less likely to suffer from domestic violence. P. Panda & B. Agarwal. (2005). Marital violence, human development and women?s property status in India. World Development 33(5) [30] N. Menon, Y. van der Meulen Rodgers, & H. Nguyen. (2014). Women?s Land Rights and Children?s Human Capital in Vietnam. World Development, 54, 18-31. [31] C. Doss. (2006). The Effects of Intrahousehold Property Ownership on Expenditure Patterns in Ghana. Journal of African Economies, 15(1), 149-180. 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 835071 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: From gender at pacificdisability.org Wed Apr 12 22:56:26 2017 From: gender at pacificdisability.org (Gender & Youth) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:56:26 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: [WUNRN] Women's Crucial Role in Combating Climate Change In-Reply-To: <001401d2b167$a36dde00$ea499a00$@gmail.com> References: <001401d2b167$a36dde00$ea499a00$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <324e2bab0bfe445bb0d7f178ce17a92f@pacificdisability.org> From: WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com] On Behalf Of WUNRN LISTSERVE Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 7:30 AM To: WUNRN ListServe Subject: [WUNRN] Women's Crucial Role in Combating Climate Change WUNRN http://www.wunrn.com https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/us/womens-crucial-role-in-combating-climate-change.html?_r=0 Via WEDO Women's Crucial Role in Combating Climate Change [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/02/us/02CLIMATE1sub/02CLIMATE1sub-master768.jpg] Students wearing masks amid heavy air pollution in Jinan, China. - Credit STR/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images By ALINA TUGEND - APRIL 1, 2017 The link between climate change and women's rights may seem baffling to some. But for Zandile Gumede, the first female mayor of Durban, South Africa, they are inextricably woven together. She was elected last year in part on a promise to address environmental problems in the region, and engaging more women in the effort is crucial to finding solutions, she said. Ms. Gumede, 55, knows something about the kind of political activism she is encouraging. She grew up in South Africa's era of racial apartheid and rose through the ranks of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change and are less likely to be educated as scientists or represented on committees that make decisions about environmental sustainability, she said. So, among other initiatives, her local government is partnering with universities to ensure that more women get degrees in the sciences. Durban, one of the largest cities in South Africa, is grappling, like the rest of the country, with one of the worst droughts in its history. Increasing urbanization and industrialization, pollution from trucks entering and exiting the city's port, the largest in the country, and contaminated waterways exacerbate the growing environmental crisis. "Climate change is a daily issue for us," she said. "And women must be a part and parcel of everything." Since weather affects everyone, the idea that women are more susceptible to the effects of climate change, particularly in developing countries, may strike some as puzzling. But women are more likely to collect water, food and firewood, and to cook meals - and therefore feel the brunt of extreme weather, disappearing water resources and soil degradation more keenly, according to a 2009 United Nations report. Women also make up a large part of the agricultural work forces in many developing nations. [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/02/us/02CLIMATE3/02CLIMATE3-master315-v2.jpg] Mayor Helen Fern?ndez of Caracas, Venezuela - Credit Brendan McDermid/Reuters Research has also shown that when resources are scarce, women often give food to their husbands and sons while denying themselves and their daughters. And when air pollution causes a spike in illnesses such as asthma - which is happening in Durban, Ms. Gumede said - it is typically the mother who stays home to care for the sick children, reducing her productivity and career growth. "A few years ago, climate change was considered gender-neutral," said Naoko Ishii, chief executive of the nonprofit Global Environment Facility, which works on climate issues. "But when we did a gender analysis, gender neutral actually mean gender-ignorant." As a sign of the growing recognition of the connection between women's rights and climate change, last month, the first C40 Women4Climate conference was held in Manhattan, bringing together female mayors from around the world. C40 Cities is an umbrella organization representing more than 90 cities focused on tackling climate change; Michael R. Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, is president of its board. For Patricia de Lille, mayor of Cape Town, the effects of climate change constitute an urban emergency. "In my city, we have 120 days of usable water left," she said. "We have to litigate climate change every day." The city, among other initiatives, plans to become the first in Africa to use electric buses for its public transport system and aims to install more than 100,000 solar water heaters on the roofs of Cape Town homes within three years. "The crisis has brought some opportunity," she noted. "Over two years, we've trained 4,000 young people to fix plumbing leaks." And on a larger scale, she hopes that by 2020, as much as 20 percent of her city's energy will come from renewable sources. [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/02/us/02CLIMATE4/02CLIMATE4-master315.jpg] Mayor Virginia Raggi of Rome - Credit Vincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images City governments are more agile than their state and federal counterparts, and can more quickly move to put in place creative environmental solutions - such as limiting some downtown streets to pedestrians only, as has recently been done in Paris and New York City. "Cities produce 70 percent of greenhouse gases," said Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris and the chairwoman of C40. "Mayors are a very pragmatic people, we are very concrete people. In government, you're sometimes distant from reality, but we're close to everything, and that's a strength." And cities are more able to link environmentalism with civic activity, said Helen Fern?ndez, the mayor of Caracas, Venezuela, who said that women in her city "have taken initiative and are on the front lines of the struggle." But while women are active on a more local level, she added, they are often left behind as issues move upward through government levels. Private companies, especially those that employ large numbers of women, also have a responsibility to address the disparate impact of climate change, said Alexandra Palt, chief sustainability officer for L'Or?al, the world's largest beauty company and one of the founding partners of Women4Climate. "I don't think climate change is becoming a gender issue," Ms. Palt said. "But I think you have to take gender into account to respond in the most effective way to human suffering." For example, L'Or?al uses more than 1,000 tons of shea butter annually in its products, she said. In poverty-stricken Burkina Faso, women collect the nuts of the African shea tree and do most of the processing to produce the butter. That includes using large amounts of firewood to boil the nut, which contributes to deforestation. L'Or?al is part of an effort to install cookstoves that use 50 percent less firewood to replace the traditional ones. Ten years ago, the emphasis "was all about creating new income for women and helping them develop economic models," Ms. Palt said. "Now climate change is becoming more and more important. It's about their survival." [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/02/us/02CLIMATE5/02CLIMATE5-master315-v2.jpg] Mayor Zandile Gumede of Durban, South Africa - Credit Brendan McDermid/Reuters In the United States, Jess Morales Rocketto, a longtime community activist, pointed to the example of "Little Miss Flint," as the 9-year old Amariyanna Copeny is known. Her online activism helped persuade President Barack Obama to visit Flint, Mich., last year to address the city's water crisis. Mari, as she is called, took part in the Women's March in January and has continued to rally concern about the polluted drinking water. "Little Miss Flint is a climate leader," said Ms. Morales Rocketto, who attended the C40 conference. The connection between climate change and gender is also about ensuring that women play crucial roles in setting the international agenda on climate change. For example, with the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, which went into effect last year, women worked "at the top level and had a very important role," Ms. Hidalgo said. "When men and women mix together with very different experiences, you have a good result. We make things more open than when men work alone." But as Ms. de Lille said: "The signing of the Paris Agreement was the easy part. What follows is implementation, implementation, implementation. After the Paris Agreement, I went back to my city and made sure that every department is overlaid with climate considerations." The political atmosphere is different now - certainly in the United States - than when the agreement was signed. President Trump has opposed it and has called climate change a "hoax." His opposition may not make finding solutions easy, but "in a way it's irrelevant what one administration or leader is doing," said Eleanor Blomstrom, co-director of the Women's Environment & Development Organization, an advocacy group. "I don't think one administration should change how we address such an urgent issue." For Ms. Hidalgo, "President's Trump's words are not enough to stop this process." "To be a skeptic today is to deny reality," she said. 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Name: image005.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 28195 bytes Desc: image005.jpg URL: From gender at pacificdisability.org Wed Apr 12 22:57:14 2017 From: gender at pacificdisability.org (Gender & Youth) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:57:14 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: [WUNRN] Australia - Women with Disabilities Australia: Human Rights Toolkit In-Reply-To: <000601d2b13f$805bedd0$8113c970$@gmail.com> References: <000601d2b13f$805bedd0$8113c970$@gmail.com> Message-ID: From: WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com] On Behalf Of WUNRN LISTSERVE Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 2:42 AM To: WUNRN ListServe Subject: [WUNRN] Australia - Women with Disabilities Australia: Human Rights Toolkit WUNRN http://www.wunrn.com Australia - Women with Disabilities Australia: Human Rights Toolkit [Toolkit cover page] Download WWDA Human Rights Toolkit (First Edition) Over two million women and girls with disability live in Australia - that's approximately 20% of all women and girls. Like everyone else, we all have different lives and experiences. We also have different personal experiences of disability. As a group, however, women and girls with disability experience unfair treatment in many areas of our lives. We are treated unfairly because of our disability, because we are women, and, because society is structured for able-bodied people. WWDA has developed this toolkit to explore some of these key issues facing women and girls with disability and provide practical resources for leading change. The toolkit includes: * An introduction to, and overview of, key human rights issues facing women and girls with disability * A brief history of human rights and Australia's human rights obligations * Understanding key articles from the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) * Recommendations for change * Ideas and suggestions of ways women and girls with disability can get involved in working for change * Resources, including sample letters and talking points for talking to Government representatives about the issues important to women and girls with disability * Full copies of the text of the CRPD and CEDAW Download full Toolkit: * WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability - Full Toolkit [PDF] (13.4MB) - 140 Pages * WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability - Full Toolkit [DOC] (1.3MB) Download Toolkit Parts 1 to 5: * Part 1: WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability [PDF] * Part 2: WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability [PDF] * Part 3: WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability [PDF] * Part 4: WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability [PDF] * Part 5: WWDA Human Rights Toolkit for Women and Girls with Disability [PDF] ________________________________ - To unsubscribe, send a new email addressed to: imail at lists.wunrn.com, with the message: unsubscribe WUNRN_LISTSERVE - To contact the list's administrator, send an email addressed to: WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 104102 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: From gender at pacificdisability.org Wed Apr 12 23:01:41 2017 From: gender at pacificdisability.org (Gender & Youth) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:01:41 +0000 Subject: [Dpo-officemanagers] FW: [WUNRN] Guide to the UN Committee on NGOs - ISHR + How to Apply for UN NGO Consultative Status In-Reply-To: <001e01d2b071$627fa050$277ee0f0$@gmail.com> References: <001e01d2b071$627fa050$277ee0f0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: From: WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner at lists.wunrn.com] On Behalf Of WUNRN LISTSERVE Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 2:07 AM To: WUNRN ListServe Subject: [WUNRN] Guide to the UN Committee on NGOs - ISHR + How to Apply for UN NGO Consultative Status WUNRN http://www.wunrn.com HOW TO APPLY FOR UN NGO CONSULTATIVE STATUS http://csonet.org/?menu=34 ___________________________________________ International Service for Human Rights - ISHR Direct Link to Full 96-Page Guide: http://www.ishr.ch/sites/default/files/article/files/ishr_ngo_handbook_eng_0.pdf The United Nations (UN) Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) is the body through which all NGO applications for Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accreditation with the UN human rights system must pass. This Committee is one of the least transparent and accountable bodies in the UN. The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) has witnessed first-hand the difficulties that many human rights organisations face in navigating this process. [cid:image002.png at 01D2B477.A4A413D0] ___________________________________________________________________________________________ http://csonet.org/?menu=34 NGO Branch Department of Economic and Social Affairs How to Apply for NGO UN Consultative Status Fran?ais Please follow the steps below to complete your application for consultative status online. 1. Profile registration Your organization must have a registered profile before starting the application for consultative status. It is important to note the name of your organization must match as is to the name on the certificate of registration of your organization if you are applying for ECOSOC consultative status. Before registering your organization, please check , if your organization has not been included as some organizations that have participated in United Nations events are already added in this database. * Add your organizational profile * Login here with your existing profile * Click here if you are not sure if your organization already has a profile The profile registration will take about 10 minutes. Please fill out all mandatory fields. Once completed, your profile will be reviewed by a substantive officer of DESA NGO Branch. You will be informed by email when your registration has been accepted. As it might take few days for your profile to be approved, please refrain from submitting your profile more than once. 2. Complete the online application Once you have been notified that your profile registration was accepted, your organization has to fill out the online application form that comprises 21 questions. The online application form can only be accepted in the two UN Secretariat working languages: English and French. All required documents should be submitted on its original language and translated in either of the two above languages if applicable. Before applying you are strongly advised to check the following link that will provide you with some hints to fill out the form: Questionnaire of the Application for Consultative Status 3. Required Documents The below three mandatory documents are evaluated for conformity with ECOSOC resolution 1996/31 and the Charter of the United Nations before consultative status is obtained: * Copy of constitution/charter and/or statutes/by-laws and amendments to those documents (pursuant to paragraph 10 of ECOSOC resolution 1996/31). * Copy of certificate of registration. According to resolution 1996/31 an organization "should attest that it has been in existence for at least two years as at the date of receipt of the application by the Secretariat". Please provide a copy of the registration paper issued by a governmental authority or, if your country does not require registration, please provide another proof of existence issued by a governmental authority. * Copy of the most recent financial statements. In addition to the mandatory documents, the following elements are required for attaining consultative status: * The organization's activities must be relevant to the work of ECOSOC; * The NGO must have been in existence (officially registered) for at least two years as at the date of receipt of the application by the Secretariat; * The NGO must have a democratic decision making mechanism; * The major portion of the organization's funds should be derived from contributions from national affiliates, individual members, or other non-governmental components. Complete applications (which include a complete response to all 21 questions and submission of all the required documents) must be received by June 1st of the year before the NGO wishes to be considered for recommendation by the Committee. For example, applications submitted by 1 June 2017 will be taken up by the Committee on NGOs in 2018. Applications received between 2 June 2017 and 1 June 2018 will be taken up in the year 2019. Login here to submit your application online. * Click on the Consultative Status tab to start filling out the application form. * Required documents can be uploaded by using the Documents tab. 4. NGO Branch screening of applications The period between 2 June and the date the Committee meets is dedicated to an internal review process of all applications received. During this time, the NGO Branch may contact organizations to request further information or clarifications. Once the review is completed, the application is scheduled to be sent to the NGO Committee. The applicant is notified accordingly before the corresponding session begins. When an application becomes part of the agenda of the NGO Committee a letter is sent to the NGO informing them of the upcoming session and inviting them to send no more than two representatives to be present during the session. The presence of NGO representatives is not mandatory nor implies any advantages, they simply have the right to be present when their applications will be considered and are responsible of all costs involved. 5. The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations The Committee meets twice a year to decide which NGOs applying for consultative status it will recommend to ECOSOC. During its Session, the Committee may ask additional questions to the NGO. Such questions are sent by the NGO Branch. In order to help the Committee to make its decision and avoid getting deferred to future sessions, questions should be replied as soon as possible. The Committee Recommends An official notification is sent to all reviewed NGOs, informing them about the Committee's decision. The Committee recommendations is also published in an official report which is submitted to the next ECOSOC meeting for its final approval. The Committee may also decide to defer an application until the next session waiting to receive pending clarifications or answers to questions posed to the NGO. 6. ECOSOC Final Decision When the Council finally approves the Committee recommendation to grant consultative status to an NGO, official notification is sent by the Secretariat. 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Vinaka Simi ====================================================== ----- Apologies for cross-posting!!!! -------- Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to endorse the official submission paper prepared on behalf of the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities to the HLPF. The submission paper addresses the annual theme of the HLPF through the Sustainable Development Goals that are under review this year. As such, the paper focuses on eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity for persons with disabilities through the lens of Goals 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, and 14. The document addresses the situation and challenges encountered by persons with disabilities globally and provides recommendations in line with the CRPD. The introduction section (page 1 of the document) will be translated into six official UN languages. The remaining five pages will be part of the official documents, but will not be translated and only published in English. More information at: http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/hlpf2017-submission-paper Please note that the paper addresses the suggestions that were provided, but due to severe space limitations imposed by the UN, the paper is concise and synthesized. We invite you to endorse this document by completing the Endorsement Form, or by providing the name of your organization and your email address to Orsolya Bartha (obartha at ida-secretariat.org) Please disseminate this document to other organizations to encourage further endorsements. Sincerely, Vladimir Cuk The International Disability Alliance Executive Director Cell: +1.312.498.5552 Email: vcuk at ida-secretariat.org Address: 205 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10025 Web: www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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