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Gender Equity and Sustainable Development: Prioritizing Actions To Achieve Results
Thank you, Klaus, for your kind introduction and good morning to all. For years, the Heinrich Boll Foundation has been a highly respected thought leader focused on many critical issues of our time – this is certainly the case when it comes to addressing the complex challenges underpinning sustainable development. I want to thank you [...]
FAREWELL MARIE – FRIEND, FIGHTER, COLLEAGUE
Tuesday, 13 December 2011: It is with great sadness that the IUCN Gender Office learnt that Marie Khan, Gender Focal Point at the Convention on Biological Diversity, passed on earlier this week. To the IUCN Gender Office, Marie was much more than a colleague – she was part of our family. Marie was born in [...]
Cop 17: Gender and Climate Change: Actions, Results and Lesson Learned
Durban, South Africa. This event showcase successes achieved under the Global Gender and Climate Change -GGCA umbrella as well as bilateral cooperation through the Governments of Finland and Denmark demonstrating best practices examples and strategies for successfully integrating gender perspective into international and national-Level actions on climate change. In the event also participants had the [...]
