MADRE in Copenhagen
Supporting Rural Women - The Solutions to Climate Change Are in Their Hands
MADRE is at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen demanding that world leaders recognize the important role of women farmers in combating climate change. We’re calling for new policies that end the monopolization of climate talks by profit-driven demands, support sustainable and organic agriculture and advance human rights.
Evidence is mounting that sustainable agriculture is our best hope for feeding a growing population and restoring the stability of the climate. Worldwide, the vast majority of those who farm sustainably are women. Securing the full range of their human rights—as women, as workers, and as rural and Indigenous Peoples has always been at the heart of MADRE’s work. Now we know that these women’s rights are key to empowering them to enact solutions on which we all depend.
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MADRE Resources:
What's Agriculture Got To Do with Climate Change?
A Women's Rights-based Approach to Climate Change
To Address Climate Change, We Need Social Change: Rural Women's Rights are Key to Solutions
Climate Change and Women's Human Rights: The MADRE Model
Other Resources:
Posted December 18, 2009
Copenhagen Conference on the Brink of Collapse as World Leaders Arrive at Talks
Time is running out
Kate Sheppard: Divide and Conquer Copenhagen
Impatient Obama urges forward movement in Copenhagen, but glum mood prevails
Posted December 16, 2009 Show
Climate Talks Sail Into Rough Seas
Indigenous Peoples Achieve Major Gains in Climate Change Negotiations
The Latest From Copenhagen: U.S. Undermining Effort to Curb Deforestation
Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change -- It's About the What Kind of People We Want to Be
Posted December 15, 2009 Show
Shifting Climate, Moving People: Immigration and Climate Justice
ENVIRONMENT: Honduras Heads List for Climate Risk
Ban calls for accelerated action in home stretch of Copenhagen climate talks
Posted December 14, 2009 Show
Copenhagen climate summit negotiations 'suspended'
Social Action in Copenhagen Rivals Seattle Protest
In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change
December 12th Was a Tipping Point
Posted December 11, 2009 Show
We Hold the Key to Copenhagen
Youth and Indigenous activists rally for vulnerable nations at climate talks
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Know Why We Are Dying' – Africa
Posted December 10, 2009 Show
Fight Climate Change, Not Wars
A shared vision should be shared by 100 per cent of the world population!
Battle over treaty texts looms at U.N. climate talks
Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen
61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration OF HUMAN RIGHTS: Indigenous Peoples Condemn Human Rights Violations at COP 15
Posted December 9, 2009 Show
Women And Climate Change–Links and Quotes
Take Me to Your Climate Leader
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin American Women Want Modified Trade Rules
Activists rally at alternative climate summit in Copenhagen
Posted December 8, 2009 Show
Leader of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina explains why members are participating in the conference
Relates EPA announcement to Copenhagen
Making the case for preventing deforestation -- new study may discourage deforestation prevention
Latin American players at Copenhagen are willing to be realists about their goals
Bolivian president Evo Morales placed the blame for flooding squarely on climate change—and carbon-spewing countries like the United States
Posted December 7, 2009 Show
Contact
Kaitlyn Soligan, Media Coordinator
PHONE: +1 212 627 0444
EMAIL: media@madre.org
