WUNRN
Via Huairou Commission
WORLD SUMMIT OF LOCAL & REGIONAL
LEADERS
WOMEN'S NETWORK DELEGATION- GENDER
FOCUS THEMES
- The necessity of
identifying the origins and actors (multinationals) of the crisis and the
responsibility of national and local governments in defence of natural
resources.
- Redefinition of the
concept of crisis to make evident the structural problematic of
production/reproduction and the differential effects of climate change on
the lives of men and women.
- The privatisation of
services and municipal decentralisation without adequate economic
resources that lowers the quality of services that are the responsibility
of local governments.
- The social
responsibility of care and the necessity of thinking about equipment and
services in light of demographic changes.
- In a more and more
urbanised world, women's rights to the city, to safe access to land
ownership, housing, services, and safe cities.
- Recognition of the
economies that have allowed people to subsist, recognition of cities'
diversity, multiculturality, and plurality.
- Strengthening citizen
participation to reinforce local governments recognising networks of
feminists and community women.
- The pending challenge of
sharing power among men and women.
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