As part of the Women Forum at CBD COP16 (Cali, Colombia – October 2024), the CBD Women’s Caucus, the IUCN Human Rights and Conservation Centre, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) hosted the session…
As we approach COP16.2, the CBD Women’s Caucus presents our position paper, outlining our policy recommendations for key items on the agenda. This paper reflects our commitment to ensuring that gender justice, human rights, and the voices of rights holders—especially…
By Alice Kammwamba, Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) Coordinator and Project Manager for Malawi’s National Ecosystem Assessment. From 20th to 23rd January 2025, I had the privilege of representing the CBD Women Caucus at the Southern Africa Expanded Constituency Workshop…
By Edda Fernandez, Senior Advisor Policy at AVAAZ. Representative of the CBD Women’s Caucus to the GBF Fund Council. The Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) was launched at the Seventh GEF Assembly in Vancouver, Canada, in August 2023, in response…
Imagine a coastal village where women, who have long been the stewards of land and water, are now fighting to protect not only their way of life but also the biodiversity of the planet. At COP16 in Cali, Colombia, on…
In the frame of CBD COP16, at the GEF Partnership Pavilion, the CBD Women’s Caucus, Global Youth Biodiversity Network, and the Resource Mobilization Working Group within the IIFB hosted the thought-provoking session Decolonise Biodiversity Finance: A Conversation from a Human…
