• woodrow wilson center
  • ecsp

New Security Beat

Subscribe:
  • rss
  • mail-to
  • Who We Are
  • Topics
    • Population
    • Environment
    • Security
    • Health
    • Development
  • Columns
    • China Environment Forum
    • Choke Point
    • Dot-Mom
    • Friday Podcasts
    • Reading Radar
  • Multimedia
    • Backdraft (Podcast Series)
    • Tracking the Energy Titans (Interactive)
  • Films
    • Paving the Way (Ethiopia)
    • Broken Landscape (India)
    • Scaling the Mountain (Nepal)
    • Healthy People, Healthy Environment (Tanzania)
  • Publications
  • Events
  • Contact Us

NewSecurityBeat

The blog of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program
  • Friday Podcasts

    Tamara Kreinin on Women’s Empowerment, Population Growth, and Sustainability

    November 3, 2010 By Wilson Center Staff
    “We know that when that when we empower women – whether it’s giving them control over their bodies and access to family planning or whether it’s by including them in planning around climate change – their agency can make huge leaps for us,” said Tamara Kreinin, executive director of women and population at the UN Foundation, in this interview with ECSP.

    Seventy percent of the world’s poor are women and they’re also the members of the household most likely to be responsible for food, water, and firewood collection.

    “At the same time, we know that women are often not at the table,” she said. “They’re not at the table in country when countries are creating aid to adaptation strategies around the environment and climate change, and they’re not at the table at places like Copenhagen and some of the big climate change meetings.”

    The “Pop Audio” series is also available as podcasts on iTunes.
    Topics: environment, environmental health, food security, Friday Podcasts, gender, international environmental governance, maternal health, podcast, population, poverty

Join the Conversation

  • RSS
  • subscribe
  • facebook
  • G+
  • twitter
  • iTunes
  • podomatic
  • youtube
Tweets about "from:NewSecurityBeat OR @NewSecurityBeat"

Trending Stories

  • unfccclogo1
  • Pop at COP: Population and Family Planning at the UN Climate Negotiations

Featured Media

Backdraft Podcast

play Backdraft
Podcasts

More »

What You're Saying

  • AMISOM-clinic No Mother Left Behind: How Conflict Exacerbates the Global Maternal Health Challenge
    L C Varkey: Could not agree more with DR Rajat Khosla's comment
  • Somalia-Woman-Displaced A More Just Migration: Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Displacement
    SCEaT: The importance of positioning womens knowledge and lived experiences at the heart of climate...
  • Karachi-Water The Next “Day Zero”: Water Scarcity and Political Instability Beyond Cape Town
    Uzair Mehdi: A decent "cut-out" analysis of underlying causes that brew a conflict in developing societies . It...
  • Supporting
    Partner
  • USAID-logo
  • woodrow
  • ecsp
  • RSS Feed
  • YouTube
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • Publications
  • Events
  • Wilson Center
  • Contact Us
  • Print Friendly Page

© Copyright 2007-2018. Environmental Change and Security Program.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. All rights reserved.

Developed by Vico Rock Media

Environmental Change and Security Program

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

  • One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
  • 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
  • Washington, DC 20004-3027

T 202-691-4000