Advocacy Projects
The WECF members carry out awarness raising activities and projects on relevant policy issues and develop documents and recommendations. The activity projects present the views of the WECF members and their priorities and concerns with particular consideration of the gender perspecitve. The WECF network is the link from bottom-up to top-down, from the local community to the international policy-making and all the areas in between.
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Aarhus Convention Information, public participation and access to justice - useful tools for WECF and its members Partners: European Eco-Forum Issues: Gender & Sustainable Development Duration: 07/2005 - 07/2011 |
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Breast Cancer: Policy and Prevention Linking Breast cancer and our environment; is chemical exposure the missing link factor in the rise of the breast cancer epidemic? Partners: WECF NL, WECF Germany, WECF UK Issues: health, chemicals, gender Duration: 01/2007 - 12/2010 |
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Children's Environmental Health Award 2010: "Protecting children's health in a changing environment" Working towards the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Parma, Italy, 10-12 March 2010 Partners: HEAL, ISDE Austria, EcoForum Issues: environmental health, children's health, indoor air pollution Duration: 09/2009 - 04/2010 |
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Civil society and sound hazardous waste management, asbestos and POPs, in Kazakhstan Partners: EcoCenter Kazakhstan, Greenwomen Kazakhstan, University of Kassel, Germany Issues: Chemicals and Health Duration: 01/2009 - 10/2010 |
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Commission for Sustainable Development WECF facilitates the participation of its members at UN conferences. WECF members present their experiences and recommendations to policy makers during the UN CSD every year Partners: Women for Water, energia, MAMA-86 and Wedo Issues: Gender, Sustainable Development Duration: 03/1999 - 08/2011 |
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Gender Equality Putting Gender Equality Central; a project to promote a gender and human rights perspective in WECF's activities Partners: WECF NL, WECF DE, WECF FR Issues: gender, rights, health Duration: 09/2008 - 09/2011 |
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Germany - Networks for healthy food Promoting fair, healthy and local food production - co-operation project between Unser Land and WECF members Partners: Unser Land, ZijActief Issues: Agriculture and Food Duration: 02/2006 - 07/2010 |
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International Project Nesting - A healthy Environment for Healthy Children helping parents to create a safe and healthy environment for their newborns Partners: Clean Up Greece, Large Familes Association Hungary, WECF France, WECF UK, WECF Netherlands, WECF Germany Issues: health, chemicals Duration: 09/2008 - 12/2011 |
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Safe Toys Coalition The “Safe Toys Coalition” aims to protect children’s health by striving for a world free of toxic and unsafe toys Partners: WECF Germany, WECF France, WECF Netherlands, Eco Accord Issues: safe toys, safe children's products Duration: 01/2010 - 01/2013 |
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WECF Germany: “Umweltgerechtigkeit von Geburt an" (Environmental justice right from the beginning) A consultative program for deprived families and migrant families in the vicinity of Berlin and Munich Partners: WECF Germany Issues: ecological cleaning, prevention of mould Duration: 09/2009 - 09/2010 |
Past Projects
3rd World Water Forum - Kyoto
The water and sanitation sector meets every three years at the World Water Forum. WECF took part in Kyoto in 2003 and Mexico City in 2005. It is preparing for Istanbul 2009.
Partners: NVR and Wedo
Issues: Water, Sanitation
Duration: 01/2003 - 12/2003
4th World Water Forum Mexico 2006
The water and sanitation sector meets every three years at the World Water Forum. WECF took part in Kyoto in 2003 and Mexico City in 2005. It is preparing for Istanbul 2009.
Partners: Women for Water, Wedo, IUCN and Gender-Water Alliance
Issues: Water & Sanitation
Duration: 01/2006 - 12/2006
Asbestos in Eastern Europe and the Rotterdam Convention
Asbestos: a silent killer on a global scale
Partners: Eco-Accord Russia, MAMA-86 Harkiev, Green Women Kazahkstan
Issues:
Duration: 01/2008 - 12/2008
Beijing + 10
In 1995 world leaders met in Beijing to commit to strengthening women’s rights and women’s involvement worldwide. WECF organized a conference on Women, Health and the Environment at the NGO-forum.
Partners: Life, WECF Spain, Wedo
Issues: Gender & Sustainable Development
Duration: 02/2005 - 06/2005
Chemikalien im Alltag
Politik, Industrie und Verbraucherinnen können gemeinsam das Risiko durch gesundheitsschädliche Chemikalien in Alltagsprodukten für Frauen, Männer und Kinder verringern.
Partners: Deutscher Hausfrauenbund, EWMD, BUND, Greenpeace, EEB
Issues: Safe Chemicals, Environment & Gender
Duration: 08/2005 - 02/2007
Children's Environmental Action Plan for Europe
Aiming to implement the European strategy for healthy citizens through a healthy environment.
Partners: European Eco-Forum, HEAL
Issues: Chemicals, Environment, Health
Duration: 08/2006 - 12/2006
Children's Environmental Health - Budapest 2004
Children's environmental health was the focus of the 4. Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Budapest from 22. - 25. of June. WECF and Ecoforum took an acitve part in the outcome.
Partners: Large Families Association, Clean Air Action Hungary
Issues: Chemicals, Health and Environment
Duration: 05/2004 - 11/2004
Countdown to Copenhagen
WECF present at Copenhagen Climate Summit, December 2009
Partners:
Issues: nuclear energy, biofuels, sustainable energy
Duration: 11/2009 - 12/2009
Eliminating toxic chemicals globally
Working to ensure that by 2020 all consumer products are free of hazardous chemicals
Partners: AWHHE, WEN, EcoAccord, MAMA-86 Harkiev
Issues: Chemicals, Health, Gender
Duration: 01/2006 - 12/2008
EU - Eco-efficiency and sustainable development
WECF project 'Eco-efficiency and sustainable development'
Partners: WEN, EEB, HEAL
Issues: Health, Environment and Sustainable Development
Duration: 03/2006 - 12/2006
EU - Fact Sheet Common Agricultural Policy
Information on organic farming, conventional agriculture and policies in the EU.
Partners: WECF Spain
Issues: Environment
Duration: 01/2006 - 12/2006
EU - Fact Sheet Natura 2000
Information on the EU development Natura 2000
Partners: WECF Spain
Issues: Environment
Duration: 01/2006 - 08/2006
Germany - Local Climate Change Action
Moving climate protection closer to the people
Partners: Green City
Issues: Energy & Climate Change
Duration: 08/2006 - 11/2006
Greece - REACH Youth Event
REACH youth event Athens
Partners: CleanupGreece
Issues: Health, Chemicals, Public Participation, Sustainable Development
Duration: 04/2005 - 04/2005
Hungary - Our Common Future
WECF network conference in Budapest 2004 - 100 European women's leaders build capacity on participation in policy making
Partners: all WECF members
Issues: Health, Chemicals, Environment, Sustainable Development, Gender, Agriculture and Food
Duration: 03/2004 - 06/2004
International Year of Sanitation
A lack of safe sanitary facilities, causing water pollution and disease is still a daily practice for 20 to 23 million Europeans within the European Union. WECF's work has put safe and affordable sustainable sanitation on the top of the European political agenda during the International Year of Sanitation 2008
Partners: MAMA-86, Black Sea Women's Club, AWHHE, Mehriban, Earth Forever Foundation, Global Water Partnership, European Water Partnership, Coalition Clean Baltic, KIWA water research
Issues:
Duration: 01/2008 - 12/2008
Nuclear is not a solution to Climate Change
Nuclear industry is a threat to our health, our environment and human right
Partners: Unison Kazakhstan, Black Sea Women's Club, Eco...Russia (olga), WISE, Genanet cc, Umweltinstitut Muenchen, Greenpeace, Foe, International Forum of Globalisation
Issues:
Duration: 01/2008 - 12/2009
Poland - Women, chemicals and health
Two workshops on Women, Health and Chemicals
Partners: Karat, Social Ecological Institute
Issues: Chemicals, Gender
Duration: 03/2004 - 06/2005
Poland: Between the rivers Bug and Narew
WECF and SIE are developing local partnerships in order to manage and cultivate 15 rural Masovian communities along the river Bug sustainable.
Partners: Social Ecological Institute Warsaw, Unser Land
Issues: Agriculture and Food
Duration: 01/2008 - 12/2009
REACH - Eliminating toxic chemicals in the EU
Working to ensure that by 2020 all consumer products are free of hazardous chemicals
Partners: WEN, Deutscher Hausfrauenbund, EWMD, BUND, Greenpeace, EEB, ZijActief
Issues: Chemicals, Health, Environment
Duration: 01/2004 - 12/2006
The Netherlands - Our Toxic Free Future
Working towards a Toxic Free Future - getting ready for action.
Partners: Tiye, ZijActief
Issues: Health, Chemicals, Gender and the Environment
Duration: 03/2003 - 06/2003
Women as the Voice for the Right to a Healthy Environment
WECF took part in the UNECE "Environment for Europe" Conference from October 10 - 12, 2007 in Belgrade, Serbia. And held its own network meeting in Belgrade.
Partners: Environmental Ambassadors, UNEP, all WECF members
Issues: Environment, sustainable development, gender, public participation and environmental rights.
Duration: 05/2007 - 10/2007
World Summit on Sustainable Development
World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 - pushing the gender issue.
Partners: Wedo, Life, NVR, AWHHE and MAMA-86
Issues: Gender & Sustainable Development
Duration: 01/2002 - 12/2002
