Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) safeguards our children's future by creating a healthy environment and sustainable development for all. We strive for balancing environment, health and economy. We enable women and men to participate at local and global level in policy processes for sustainable development. Our network's activities are based on our partners' own visions and needs. WECF implements solutions locally and influences policy internationally.
Climate change is a global threat to sustainable development, poverty elimination, peace and human rights in the coming decades. Lessons learned from climate mitigation activities at local level are shared with policy makers nationally and internationally. WECF promotes a switch away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy towards sustainable and decentralized alternatives. WECF empowers vulnerable groups to benefit from climate change adaptation. WECF integrates a gender perspective into global UN negotiations.
WECF and its members advocate for non-chemical alternatives worldwide, based on three principles: polluter pays, reversal of the burden of proof and the precautionary principle, and will highlight the gaps and inadequacies in current legislation. WECF raises awareness amongst consumers and encourages them to ask questions about the products they allow into their homes.
WECF implements decentralised, safe sustainable and affordable sanitation systems for rural areas and promotes in particular access to safe water and sanitation for schools. WECF raises awareness and mobilises citizens for sustainable water and wastewater management and promotes community based and affordable water supply systems for rural areas without a centralised drinking water supply. WECF and partners advocate for an integrated and sustainable approach to water resource and river basin management.
WECF's overall goal for Safe Food Production and Sustainable Rural Development in the EU and EECCA region is that by 2020 all children, women and men have access to safe, regional, diverse and affordable food, free of hazardous chemicals, nano-particles and GMOs, based on fair trade and produced in harmony with nature and landscape, protecting water, soil, air and biodiversity.
WECF's overall goal "Achieving a healthy environment and sustainable development for all" can only be reached by integrating human rights and gender perspectives into all policies. If sustainable development and a healthy environment for all are the focus of our societies, short-term economic gains cannot have priority above the rights and health of people and the environment. Therefore, at the base of all sustainable development goals, stands a rights-based approach to achieving these goals.
Latest News & Reports
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WECF Contributed to UNECE Publication “No One Left Behind” |
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Statements by The Women’s Major Group during the April negotiations for Rio+20 |
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Apply NOW! Women Rio+20 Good Practice Award: Women’s contributions to Sustainable and Equitable Economies |
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Latest Press Releases
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The World Water Forum 6: Time for Solutions |
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International Women's Day 2012: Why is Rio+20 important for women? |
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Press Conference on Toys Safety and Toys Testing at European Parliament, 25th January |
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Latest Publications
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Brustkrebs und Umwelteinflüsse |
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WECF, Together With European NGOs, Demands Good Criteria of EDCs in European Legisation |
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Rio+20 Zero Draft - Recommendations Women's Major Group |
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"If women and men from different countries work together in respect and mutual understanding, we can eliminate poverty and protect our planet and its resources for the next generations to come."
Gero Fedtke
Programme Coordinator ELA/MFS
