Sex workers in Denmark are protesting a campaign against prostitution during the UN Climate Change Conference. The city of Copenhagen wants to discourage delegates from buying sex, despite the fact thatit is perfectly legal there and has nothing to do with climate change. Thesex workers’ interest group, SIO (Sexarbejdernes Interesseorganisation), was not consulted and so, annoyed, they are offering free sex to any conference delegate who turns in his ridiculous postcard (see below), which also went to 160 hotels. See full text on “Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex”
Are women passively waiting for policymakers to decide their fate with respect to access to ICTs? “No” says Helen Hambly Odame, Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Design & Rural Development at the University of Guelph in Canada. She writes, “Women are not ‘waiting’ for access to ICTs, but rather using ICTs when they are available to get around the constraints they face in politics, society and economy.” See full text
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution - emissions trading - on the negotiating table at Copenhagen and in other capitals. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about Cap &’ Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.
Member States have reached a preliminary agreement on the modalities for the MDG Review Conference in September 2010. The resolution decides that the meeting will be held from 20 to 22 September 2010 in New York. It also asks that Hearings with civil society be organized no later than June 2010. Formal approval of the resolution should be expected in the coming couple of weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Your Excellency, Mr President of the South South Co-operation Conference, heads of delegations and representatives of member states, colleagues and representatives of the business sector and of parliaments, dear Civil society colleagues, ladies and gentlemen:Read the rest of this entry »
The International Civil Society Forum (FISC, for its Portuguese acronym) is an international event on Youth and Adult Education, to be held in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, Brazil, between November 28th and 30th, 2009. This is a plural space for reflection and formulation of proposals that seeks to promote the exchange of experiences and organize the process of incidence in the VI International Conference on Adult Education. See full information.
By Peter Waterman - Global Labor Charter Project
November 2009
INTRODUCTION
At the age of 73 it is something of an adventure for me to be hosted – for the first time in my life - by a Catholic labor studies center. I come from another labor tradition:
October 31, 2009 - At the NGO CSW Roundtable meeting on the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) review of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action women gathered to develop recommendations that reflected the needs and experiences of women in the region.The two day NGO meeting took place in Geneva from October 30-31, 2009 and focused on “the challenges of gender equality in the context of the economic and financial crisis.” Read the rest of this entry »
Ana Abelenda, Editor of Choike, presenting the project
The I-K-Mediary Network is an emerging global network of organisations that play a knowledge and information intermediary role in development. These organisations all aim to increase access to and use of research in development contexts by providing portals, gateways or reporting services.
Choike has recentrly engaged in the newtwork and has participated in the 3rd I-K-Mediary Network meeting that took place in Brighton Nov 4-6 2009. Participants included: Read the rest of this entry »
