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Women’s Tribunals on Gender and Climate Justice: Women Mobilizing . AWID Forum. Rosa Lizarde FEMINIST TASK FORCE Ecological Health of Our Planet In-Depth Session April 19, 2012. background. 2007 spear-headed women’s tribunals on poverty

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  1. Women’s Tribunals on Gender and Climate Justice: Women Mobilizing AWID Forum Rosa Lizarde FEMINIST TASK FORCE Ecological Health of Our Planet In-Depth Session April 19, 2012

  2. background • 2007 spear-headed women’s tribunals on poverty • 2008 GCAP coalitions followed w/ 20 poverty hearings • 2009 FTF’s “7 countries, 3 continents, 1 call” Nepal, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Botswana, Uganda, Brazil • 2011 Strengthening Voices, Search for Solutions w/ Greenpeace & InterPress Ser. • 15 women’s tribunals on climate justice

  3. context: women’s voices • Burden on women of extreme weather and impact of climate change • Women as a vulnerable group • Highlight voices of grassroots and rural women • Leveraging high-level platforms (UN, COP, G20) • Emphasize climate change as a women’s issue (food security, water, land, energy) • climate change exacerbates poverty, contributes to disintegration of families and communities • cause for migration • further deepens the feminization of poverty

  4. climate change impact • Emphasize the gender dimension of climate change • Collection of authentic, specific and exemplary testimonies of grassroots and rural women • have experienced climate change related problems in their lives and communities, and their search solutions. • Women not only as victims but also as a key component in the search for solutions • Increase women’s visibility

  5. impact climate change • Outlook grim; energy low • US - Rio+20 will not have a significant bearing on the climate change treaty process • must include a component for women’s economic empowerment • E.g. women discussed the Durban proposals and the road to the Rio20+ • advocate for policy change – Rio, COP, UN • further educational workshops and meetings needed for grassroots women to better understand environmental issues and who is profiting from the global climate issue.

  6. Launch: Women’s Tribunals in US:Central Appalachia RegionLittle Village, Chicago

  7. For more information: • http://www.cllimatejusticetribunals.blogspot.comL updates, • www.feministtaskforce.org • feministtaskforce@gmail.com • Contact: Rosa Lizarde, Global Coordinator • FEMINIST TASK FORCE of the Global Call to Action against Poverty

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