Changing Climate/Changing Work: Women Leaders on Economic Empowerment & the Human Right to Water

Event Date: March 22, 2017

March 22, 2017, 10:30am - 12:00pm

UN Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza #8g, 2nd Floor Conference Room, New York, NY 10017

On World Water Day - March 22, 2017 - we are bringing together an incredible group of Indigenous and women of Color leaders based in the US, US-occupied territories, and Tunisia for an official side event at the 61st United Nations Commission the Status of Women (CSW). Panelists will discuss the climate crisis, economic empowerment, and the human right to water from the perspective of Southern, Black, Indigenous and Global South communities.

Moderator: Rosalee Gonzalez, Co-Coordinator of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas, North Region; and USHRN Board of Directors

Hosts: Colette Pichon Battle, Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network and and Ife Kilimanjaro, Senior Director of Network Engagement, US Climate Action Network

Panelists:

Catherine Flowers, Director of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise

Naeema Muhammad, Co-Director of NC Environmental Justice Network

Chief Caleen Sisk, Spiritual Leader and Tribal Chief of the Winnenem Wintu Tribe

Sarah Toumi, Founder of Acacias for All

Can't attend the panel in person? Catch a livestream of the panel online here: http://bit.ly/USHRNCSW61Live