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Mar 01, 2010 - Mar 12, 2010 In March 2010, the CSW will undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.

Jan 18, 2010 - Jan 19, 2010 Regions from the five continents, States, financial backers, international organisations, civil society and international experts are taking action to improve the world food situation. Register Now!  

BANGKOK, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.

A draft version of the REDD+ Social & Environmental Standards is available in English, Spanish and French and comments are invited until 30 November 2009.

  Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations, made possible with a generous three-year grant from new SAR board member Vera R. Campbell’s family foundation.  

UNDP Administrator Receives MDG3 Torch and Commits to Focus on Gender and Climate Change UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark received a torch symbol of the Millennium Development Goal on gender equality and women empowerment (MDG3).  

18.-20. September 2009 at Soria Moria Hotel in Oslo, Norway

The IUFRO unit "Education, gender and forestry" will organise a conference on gender education at UBC1, Vancouver, cosponsored by Faculty of Forestry of UBC, the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at UBC and the Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany. It will take place from September 6th -9th 2009

Theme: Feminisation of Poverty: A Gender Challenge CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for receipt of Abstract: 30th August, 2009.

   For more information please contact Lorena Aguilar at lorena.aguilar@iucn.org and Natalia Kostus at natalia@gender-climate.org  

UNIFEM’s biennial flagship report ‘Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender & Accountability’shows that realising women’s rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals depends on strengthening accountability for commitments to women and gender equality.

20 November 2008 – Without gender equality Africa will be unable to achieve lasting development as it confronts the recent food, financial and energy crises, according to speakers at United Nations-backed conference now underway in Addis Ababa.