Transcript Women`s Tribunals on Gender and Climate Justice: Women Mobilizing

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
 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
context: women’s voices
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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
climate change impact
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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
impact climate change
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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.
Launch:
Women’s Tribunals in US:
Central Appalachia Region
Little Village, Chicago
For more information:
 http://www.cllimatejusticetribunals.blogspot.comL
updates,
 www.feministtaskforce.org
 [email protected]
 Contact: Rosa Lizarde, Global Coordinator
 FEMINIST TASK FORCE of the Global Call to Action
against Poverty