News & Reports

Chernobyl +20: "The victims should not have died for nothing"
Natalia Manzurova, liquidator having worked 4,5 years in Chernobyl, says we should not forget the catastrophe at WECF and LIFE press event (text in German)
25.04.2006 | Johanna Hausmann (in Kooperation mit Journalisten Akademie Hooffacker & Partner München)

WECF Position Paper on Women and Rural Development
“Women and Sustainable Rural Development” of the international workshop of the Networks WECF und UNSER LAND.
07.04.2006 | WECF Press Release

Fighting Climate Change
Input from Women to Government concerning the Post-Kyoto-Regime.
23.03.2006 | Ulrike Röhr

Results of the “Gender & Energy / Climate Change” survey
A joint survey by WECF and Life e.V.
21.03.2006 | Ulrike Röhr

Women in Europe to Present Water Projects on the 4th World Water Forum in Mexico
Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) along with its network organizations will take part in the 4th World Water Forum (WWF-4) in Mexico on March 16-22, 2006.
15.03.2006 | WECF Press Release

Two new WECF publications on dry eco-toilets
How to build a household ecosan toilet and Gender Differentiated results of the ecosan user survey
10.03.2006 | Sascha Gabizon

International Women's Day
Press release to all WAVE participants with warm greetings from all at UNEP. Who’s Who of Female Environmentalists Launched by UNEP
09.03.2006 | Sascha Gabizon

Georgian WECF members report from Geneva on the European preparatory meeting for CSD-14
UN Commission on Sustainable Development 14th session on Energy, Climate Change and Air Pollution
09.03.2006 | Manana Juruli and Rusudan Simonidze

Women for Water pesents 2 new flyers
WfWfW has published two new publications on the Women for water Partnership, one in english and one in spanish. The flyers are made by WECF
09.03.2006 | Irma Thijssen

Tests of Women's Hair Finds High Mercury Levels
Researchers at the University of North Carolina asked volunteers to buy testing kits to measure the mercury in their hair. Findings released last month indicate mercury contamination may be more wides
06.03.2006 | Sascha Gabizon