UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2, 2012 (IPS) - As UN Women celebrated its first birthday, its executive director Michelle Bachelet stressed that political upheveal and shrinking budgets are no excuse to push back the hard-won gains made by the women's movement globally.
"My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation," Bachelet said at UN Women's one-year anniversary press conference Thursday.
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Rio De Janeiro: 20 - 22 June 2012. Business has made great progress in internalizing the concept of sustainable development since the 1992 Earth Summit, and is now addressing its role in society at large. Rio+20 will focus on how business can engage more fully in this process and act as a catalyst for action by identifying ways in it can achieve the most effective synergy with government, while helping shape the sustainability agenda over the next 20 years. The WBCSD is developing specific deliverables for Rio+20 which are to: - Demonstrate the WBCSD’s role as the business thought leader on sustainability issues;
- Be recognized for the progress the WBCSD and its members have made since 1992;
- Insert key positions in outcome documents;
- Create vehicles for member companies to tell their stories and engage in the process.
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With the right policies and partnerships, business can improve the reach, quality and reliability of energy access. Traditionally, the bell that tolls at midnight on New Year's Eve rings out the old and rings in the new. But for billions of people, 2012 promises more of the same – another year without adequate access to energy. Across the world, more than a billion people lack access to electricity, and 3 billion still rely on dung, wood and other biomass fuels for cooking and heating. This means nearly half the world's population prepares food and heats their homes in a way that, according to the World Health Organisation, causes about 2 million premature deaths every year through indoor air pollution from inefficient biomass combustion – with women and girls disproportionately affected.
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GULU, Uganda, Feb 1 (IPS) – Radio Mega FM’s transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s destruction of northern Uganda.
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For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. Many do not have the required collateral of land title deeds and many cannot afford the interest rates charged by commercial banks. But six women-led rural banks have begun changing the lives of women in rural Uganda, easing their access to credit and enabling them to start small businesses and improve their food security.
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