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Women call for studies of health impact of environmental degradation.
2004 NOV 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Leading women environmentalists have called for research into the impact on the health of women and girls of toxic chemicals and they urged governments to make funds available to associations of poor women for such environmental projects as water, sanitation, and poverty alleviation schemes and ecosystem management.
Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, under the theme "Women as the Voice for the Environment (WAVE)," some 140 women representing 60 countries at the Global Women's Assembly on the Environment also recommended pinpointing the roles of women in the environmental recovery of war-torn zones, according to the UN News Service in an October 13, 2004, article.
The WAVE assembly, sponsored by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the New York-based Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), included environment ministers from Iran, Kenya, South Africa, Swaziland, and Sweden.
The manifesto, which will be given to governments attending UNEP's Governing Council in February 2005 for action, said, "Globalization, militarization, fundamentalism, and the market-driven economic model have undermined the achievement of the agreed goals."
It included expressions of similar deep concern over "the ever-widening gap between rich and poor," "unsustainable ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Women call for studies of health impact of environmental degradation.