For Living Seed and Living Soil
Description: The Global Movement for Seed Freedom joins the Women's Global Call for Climate Justice and invites you to join people and communities around the globe, from the 2nd to the 16th of October to celebrate our seeds, our soils, our land, our territories, and to create an Earth Democracy based on Living Seed, Living Soil, healthy communities and living economies. We are living in a changing and challenging world. We clearly have two totally different world orders, two totally different world views, two totally different paradigms evolving. One is based on ONE Corporation with one paradigm, one agriculture, monopolies, monocultures, crushing the soil, crushing the biodiversity, crushing the small farmers, crushing our bodies with disease. On the other hand we have billions of species, millions of people. We, the people – cannot fail the Earth, each other and the future. If each of us takes a pledge to protect the Living Seed and protect the Living Soil, to grow our food as close to home a
Read moreAfrican Women Solutions, Survival, Power
The Women Environmental Programme, based in Nigeria, will coordinate with other networks/alliances on a series of communications activities to build awareness for a just and gender-responsive climate agreement in Paris at COP21. WEP will host a consultative forum on gender and climate change, focusing on the disproportionate climate change impacts which women are most vulnerable in terms of disruption of livelihood, global inequality, sourcing for energy, and adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Read morePacific Women Mobilizing
We will be coordinating national and regional CSO groups to raise the level of national and regional awareness in pacific small island states on the urgency of climate justice, and the need to integrate gender justice and women’s human rights into all Pacific initiatives by governments and CSOs and social movements, including urgent action before COP21; Ensuring that diverse Pacific women and girls are directly engaged in analysis, advocacy and movement building initiatives in urgent action before COP21.
Read moreTen State Capitals in India
We will work across 10 state capitals in India, particular with women's groups, to explain the climate change negotiations process and the intended outcomes of the Paris Conference of Parties. It will be brought to the attention of the public how and why gender equality, human rights and justice need to be at the center of the agreement. In each of the state capitals, we will run awareness and advocacy programs involving representatives of the local government, academics, practitioners, women, youth, local citizens, CSOs and legislators.
Read moreAdaptation to Climate Change
Facilitate participation of women in the planning and carrying out of adaptation measures so that their needs and priorities are taken into account. We need to promote women’s access to adaptation techniques: water and soil conservation techniques, use of improved seeds, diversification of crops, composting and horticulture. Also, we will strengthen women’s groups in rural communities and support their participation in the planning and carrying out of adaptation measures so that their needs and priorities are taken into account.
Read morePeople's Power in the Philippines
he Philippine Development Initiatives and Assistance for the Rural Sectors, Inc. (PDIARS), working with the Filipino women's movement, will launch a series of actions to engage embassies from major polluters based in our country- to make demands for climate justice.
Read morePlanting Produces Powerful Women
Individual/Team Energy,Economy,Solutions,Survival,Power,Climate Justice
Read moreGender and Climate-Just Germany
We will use high level media events to draw attention to the urgent issues raised in the Call and spread this within Germany and throughout Europe, Our media efforts will provide basic information about gender and climate change, for those who are less familiar with the topic, and a detailed update on current issues within the negotiations, so that participants are informed and prepared to further engage with gender issues in the flurry of media activity during the COP.
Read moreDrinking Water Security for the Poor and Women
Organization/Alliance/Network Survival
Read moreInclusion, Education, Empowerment.
Striving towards inclusive education of women in all stages (primary schooling till old age education), using grassroot level mechanism for the purpose of sensitizing the section on environment, biodiversity, resources depletion, climate change, sustainability, mitigation, development and economic empowerment through sustainable development methods.
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