Category: Gender
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Launching 2026 – the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF)
The UN General Assembly has resolved that 2026 shall be the International Year of the Woman Farmer — an issue of key importance to MCLD and particularly its rural members. Within the UN, this focuses the energy of FAO, IFAD, UN Women and WFP. Among member states it is chaired by Jordan and Ireland. The…
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Transformation of MCLD, CSW Readout
This month we gathered to discuss our observations from the recent UN Conference on the Status of Women, our new global structure and our upcoming participatory process to create our 2025-2028 Strategic Plan.
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What we learned since Beijing
I was not in Beijing in September 1995, but it still changed my life and my mission. I had helped our founding president Joan Holmes prepare her statement (click here) based on our field experience to date and – as we had at the Third Women’s Conference in Nairobi in 1985 – we sent a…
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February 28: Let’s Fund the Grassroots Women’s Movement!
This month, on our global zoom call let’s commit ourselves to breakthrough on one of the most vital challenges for human progress.