Hi ECOFEMers!
For those of you who don't know, the newest issue of UNEP's __Our
Planet__ focuses upon "Women and Sustainable Development." The
details are: Volume 7, Number 4, 1995. The back page includes a
commentary/call for support for " A New Agency for Women" by Khadija
Haq (Executive Director of the North South Roundtable).
She argues that we need "an integrated United Nations agency to
elevate women's advancement to the top of policy agendas, to monitor
specific achievements and failures, and to provide a coordinated
policy framework to galvanize energies and efforts throughout the
international system." She calls this new organization the United
Nations Agency for the Advancement of Women (UNAAW).
The views are her own, but I strongly support them. "Women and
Environment" is a critical part of such an integration, and it would
be GREAT to see some more of this formalized, from the grass/flax
roots to the global levels. I strongly encourage you all to read
this issue of __Our Planet__! It could add quite a bit of dialogue to
this list.
Peaceful travels,
Stefanie S. Rixecker
Centre for Resource Management
Lincoln University
Aotearoa New Zealand
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