Countdown to Copenhagen: WECF at Bonn Climate Change Talks
A WECF and Gender CC side-event at 9 june on Gender, Migration and Climate Change
01.06.2009 |WECF Announcement
Gender, Migration and Climate Change
Patterns, challenges and opportunities for intervention
Tuesday, 9 June 2009 | 18.00 – 19:30
Room WIND, Ministry for Environment, Robert-Schumann-Platz
Climate change related migration patterns have differentiated impacts on women and men: migration is influencing and changing social roles while increasing prevailing gender imbalances. Migration is perceived as a humanitarian challenge by the international community. At the same time, climate change-induced migration is increasingly treated as a security issue by countries and international institutions.
The purpose of the side event is to analyse migration patterns in those parts of the world that are most heavily impacted by climate-related migration from a gender perspective, explore how these issues are linked to the UNFCCC climate process, and discuss how civil society and gender organizations can effectively incorporate gender aspects of climate change-related migration into the international agenda.
Agenda:
Climate-change related migration from a gender perspective: patterns, challenges and opportunities for intervention
Sharmind Neelormi, GenderCC, Bangladesh
Changes in migration patterns in Georgia
Keti Kiria, Greens Movement of Georgia / WECF
Outer Island Migration
Marstella Jack, Pohnpei Women Advisory Council, Micronesia
Climate change, migration and gender: reflections from Balochistan (Drought 1997 to 2002)
Maira Zahur, LEAD Pakistan
Discussion
Facilitator: Mona Bricke, GenderCC International secretariat
THE BONN CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS will take place from:
1 - 12 June 2009 in Bonn, Germany
More information is available at the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) website: http://unfccc.int/2860.php
WECF is also present at the side-event, shown below:
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