WUNRN
POOR RURAL MIGRANT FARM WORKER
MOTHER - USA History
Farm Security Administration
Collection - Photo by Dorothea Lange
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http://www.ruraldevelopment.org/CSW2012.html
RURAL
DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK AT THE UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
56 - 2012
February
28th through March 4th 2012, the Rural Development Leadership Network
gathered grassroots women (and men) working to overcome poverty and hunger in
poor rural communities in the United States for the United Nations Commission
on the Status of Women nongovernmental organization sessions in New York.
RDLN women come
from areas that are historically oppressed and persistently poor, such as
African-American parts of the rural South, Hispanic farmworker areas, Indian
country, Appalachia, and refugee and immigrant communities. We believe that
some of the same factors that perpetuate poverty in the developing world do the
same in developing parts of the United States.
RDLN Leaders
work to support land ownership and stewardship among indigenous and grassroots
people, strengthen family farms, promote opportunity for farmworker women,
foster new small enterprises, and create a better quality of life through
access to education, healthcare, housing, capital and other resources. We
organize for social justice and promote women’s leadership.
We have been
privileged to exchange ideas, experience, and practices with women from other
countries. We learn from each other as we share experiences.