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WOMEN'S RIGHTS, GENDER AND CLIMATE CHALLENGES 2009
KULU women and Development is pleased to announce a series of debate meetings on the occasion of the COP 15 meeting

 Throughout the year 2009 KULU has worked with partners to prepare for an input to the UN climate meeting. KULU and partners have been attending the international preparatory meetings, have carried out a preparatory workshop with FEMNET Africa in Bamako Mali and have carried out an information campaign in Denmark.

KULU is pleased to invite you to a series of debates with the participation of international partners and in collaboration with member organizations and other partners in climate dialogue. 
KULU also invites you to attend  a Women’s Strategy Caucus held as daily meetings with NGO briefings and strategy Planning – open for all. - Read more below.

The debate meetings and the daily caucus meetings are to be held in The Greenlandic House, Løvstræde 6, Copenhagen K (side street to Købmagergade).

Everybody is welcome.
The debates and daily caucus meetings will be held in English.
Download the full programme (Word)

[6. December 2009]

7. December  5-7.00 pm
Global Food and Women’s Rights – in the light of the Food and Financial Crises
 
 Panel debate:

Kongo Baba, agricultural engineer, FEMNET Mali –  food, agriculture and women's rights from a  Malian perspective

Helle Sjelle, Member of the Danish Parliament:  Conclusions and insights from UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome in November - food security, gender and development

Katrine Klinken, chef and chairperson, “Belly Rebellion” (foreningen Oprør fra Maven) The daily food in a global perspective  – dilemmas and possibilities, including the climate challenges.
 
Debate
 
Moderator: Janice Førde, chairperson, KULU-Women and Development
 
Belly Rebellion's chefs Pernille Skjødt and Karen Leth serve tasty samples from the Nordic Kitchen
 
KULU-Belly Rebellion Fact-Recipe Sheets available
 
The arrangement is part of debate project ”Global food - Women's rights, supported by Dansk Folkeoplysnings Samråd
 
Arranged by:  KULU-Women and Development and the Belly Rebellion   – together with the Danish Women’s Society.

9. December 4-6.00 pm
Climate,  Gender  and  Women -
 introduction  to COP 15 Summit  and Climate Stories from  Africa  
 
 Inputs:
Kongo Baba, FEMNET Mali, and other representatives from Africa tell about the climate changes they experience in their daily lives

Josephine Kamel, Chairperson AWEPON (African Women’s Economic Policy Network) on gender and economic implications as a result of climate change primarily from Uganda
 
Maria Glinvad, vice-chair, KULU-Women and Development: women’s role in  COP 15 summit and process

Martha Salazar, member of climate group,  KULU-Women and Development:  women’s climate agenda and COP 15:  Possibilities and challenges  
 
Open debate 
 
Arranged by: KULU-Women and Development

10. December 5.-7.00 pm
Gender and Conflicts – under Shot and Shell of the Climate Changes

 Interventions:
Anna Pinto, Secretary and Programme Director CORE, India and Global Justice Ecology Project: On the situation in India

Maria Glinvad, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: Climate changes and Conflicts: the impact on women
 
Open debate
 
Organizers: KULU-Women and Development and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom  (Kvindernes Internationale Liga for Fred og Frihed)

13th December    2.00-5.00 pm
Global Day (Afternoon)  of Shopping:

 You are invited to the House of Greenland where you will be able to enjoy an afternoon of global shopping opportunities and taste the flavours of food from around the world.

You will meet women who already are changing their lives through adaption strategies.

You will have the possibility of taking part in an auction in which wowen fabric in wool and silk will go to the highest bidder
 
Arranged by: Sweet Fair, KULU-Women and Development and PCA

14th December  5-7.00 pm
Women’s Climate Agenda
Panel discussion:

 KULU-Women and Development presents their new Climate Action Catalogue  - a result of debate meetings and interviews in Denmark
Gender Climate Change and other international women’ climate network present their demands for COP15 and the climate process
 
Arranged by: KULU-Women and Development

15th December  5-7.00 pm
International Trade and Climate Change – a gender perspective
 Trade and climate change links from a gender perspective: What are the links? Climate out of the WTO and into the next COP agreement or not? How to engender climate and trade?
 
Panel discussion with:

Yvonne Underhill-Sem, New Zealand/Cook Islands, DAWN

Norma Maldonado, DAWN, IGTN-LAC  

Martha Salazar, KULU-92-Group representative to WTO Ministerial Conference, Geneva
 
Moderator: Janice G Foerde, KULU chair, senior consultant
 
Arranged by:  KULU-Women and Development

17th December  5-7.00 pm
Gender, Climate and Finances 
Debate on micro financing, adaption and insurance in a gender and climate perspective
 
 Panel debate:
 
Flemming Kramp, Oikos:  Gender and Microfinancing

Lars Persson, director, Merkur

Michel Takam, www.adeid.org , Cameroun
 
Open debate
 
Arranged by:  KULU-Women and Development

18th December  2-4.00 pm
KULU-FEMNET-Africa & FEMNET-Mali PRESS CONFERENCE: 

 Gender and Women’s Rights Perspectives in COP15 Outcome? Future Work.
 
Arranged by:  KULU-Women and Development

7-18 December 6.30 - 8.00 pm
 
Women’s Strategy Caucus
 
 Daily meetings (except 12.12.09) with NGO briefings and strategy Planning – open for all.

7-18 December
  
 K.U.L.U.-Women and Development’s exhibit:
 “Women’s Rights, Gender and Climate Changes in the developing countries – focuses on 8 themes:
Women, Gender and Climate
Climate Disasters,
Women cultivate the land
Women and Water
Energy and transport
Health and Diseases
Climate Solutions
K.U.LU-Women and Development’s climate demands
 
Supported by PCA and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

KULU - Women and Development
Aldersrogade 6E, st.,
DK - 2100 Copenhagen Ø
DENMARK
Tel. +45 - 3315 7870
Fax. +45 - 3332 5330


Women's and girl's rights in Mali:
Watch new video film about female mayor and women rights activist Oumou Sall Seck in Timbuktu Mali.
Click to open video

 

Read the state budget through gender lenses.....
Or how can macro-economic policies be mainstreamed?
 - Visit KULU's short guide to  web resources on gender budgeting
Read how African women  organizations work with gender budgeting and their experiences.

Financing for Development
 Visit KULU's FfD - Web-service for background analyses, state of the art papers, regional reports, press releases etc. produced by women consultation partners in the preparatory process towards the Financing for Development Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, March 2002.































 

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