Dialogues & Recording
Community involvement in preventing and combating wildlife, forest and fisheries crime
1 December 2020 - in English and Spanish.
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As a quarter of the world’s land is owned or managed by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, they must be central to global conservation efforts to tackle international wildlife trade.
Wildlife crimes touch every country, impacting biodiversity, human health, national security, socio-economic development, as well as lining the pockets of organized criminal groups. Illegal trade in wildlife can lead to the spread of zoonoses, such as SARS-CoV-2 that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo: Ana Valerie Mandri Rohen & IUCN CEESP
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Speakers:
Dr. Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Programa de Estudios Socioambientales, CRIM - UNAM, Mexico; Dr. Meredith Gore, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, USA; Dr. David Rodriguez Goyes, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender
23 November 2020
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CEESP Dialogue - the impact of COVID 19 on Gender
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In addition to being a health emergency, COVID-19 has led to a major global, economic downturn, with potentially strong adverse impacts on the livelihoods of vulnerable groups. This dialogue focuses on the global situation, exploring prior assumptions of the pandemic and its impact on gender: issues of inequality, violence, access to education, health care, livelihoods and financial independence.
Panelists: Itzá Castañeda Camey - IUCN Gender Advisor (Mexico); Kame Westermen, Senior Gender Advisor, Conservation International; Mahfuza Akter (Mala), Gender Justice & Social Inclusion Program, Oxfam Bangladesh; Enamul Mazid Khan Siddique, Head of Climate Justice & Natural Resource Rights, Oxfam Bangladesh; Senator (Retired) Javed Jabbar, Founding President Baanhn Beli, Former IUCN Global Vice President, Pakistan
Remarks and Moderation by: Meher M. Noshirwani, Regional Vice Chair Asia & Specialist Group on Gender, IUCN CEESP; Kristen Walker Painemilla - Chair of IUCN CEESP
Moving Forward Together - Migration, Environmental Change & Conflict
17 November 2020
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Photo: Ana Valerie Mandri Rohen & IUCN CEESP
The co-migration of human and other species catalyzed by environmental change, including climate change, is anticipated to increase dramatically in the next decades. As calls mount for conservation to account for these trends, how will conservation practice be affected and what conflicts are likely to increase?
Panelists: Mariam Traore Chazalnoel - International Organization for Migration (IOM); Andrea Dekrout - UN Environment (CMS); Richard Matthew - Professor, University of California, Irvine (UCI) ; Thomas Worsdell - Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP); Kanta Kumari Rigaud - World Bank; Alec Crawford - International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Moderators: IUCN CEESP Chair Kristen Walker Painemilla, and the Co-chairs of the CEESP Theme on Environment and Peace: Galeo Saintz and Elaine Hsiao.
Agenda - Infographic
Environmental human rights defenders in the pandemic: the Geneva Roadmap and strengthening IUCN action
10 November 2020
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Photo: Ana Valerie Mandri Rohen & IUCN CEESP
Faced with the deteriorating situation of environmental human rights defenders during the pandemic, how can the conservation community respond more effectively? Specifically, how can the IUCN Secretariat, membership networks and partner efforts be mobilized and strengthened?
Panelists: Jörg Balsiger and Peter Bille Larsen - University of Geneva; Liliana Jauregui - IUCN Netherlands; Judy Pasimio -Purple Action for Indigenous Women's Rights; Kanyinke Sena - The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee, IPACC; Agustina Calcagno -Fundación Plurales; José Aylwin - ICCA Consortium; Yves Lador - Earthjustice; Grethel Aguilar - IUCN; Mary Lawlor - UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Moderators: IUCN CEESP Chair Kristen Walker Painemilla
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Indigenous Peoples, COVID-19 & Climate Change
October 2020
Photo: IUCN CEESP / Ana Valerie Mandri
IUCN CEESP and the Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws & Human Rights discuss the status of indigenous peoples, and the importance of recognition and promotion of indigenous peoples' customary institutions for protection of indigenous knowledge, cultural practices and traditional livelihoods.
Opening and closing remarks : IUCN CEESP Chair Kristen Walker Painemilla, and the SPICEH Co-chairs: Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Yeshing Juliana Upún Yos and Kanyinka Sena
Panelists: Mr. Mark Lari Letoluo - Kenya; Ms. Hindou Oumar - Chad; Mr. Phanon Thano - Thailand; Ms. Kamala Thapa - Nepal; Mr. Ramiro Batzin -Guatemala; Ms. Hortencia Hidalgo - Chile
Spiritual Perspectives for a New Normal
June 2020
People of faith and spirituality are thinking about, and offering guidance on, what an earth-centered, new normal, might look like, and how we can practically contribute to it.
How do we emerge from our homes, from this time under lockdown, and be part of creating a new, earth-centered, normal, based on the values and ethics of our diverse faiths and spiritualities? What is IUCN’s role in building a new normal? And what will conservation look like post-2020?
Opening and closing remarks: Jessica Sweidan, IUCN Patron of Nature; Dr Grethel Aguilar, IUCN’s Acting Director General; Kristen Walker-Painemilla, Chair of IUCN CEESP, and Liza Zogib, Chair of the IUCN CEESP Specialist Group on Religions, Spirituality, Environmental Conservation and Climate Justice (ReSpECC)
Panelists:
- Dr Fazlun Khalid, Founder, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science
- Valériane Bernard and Sonja Ohlsson, Brahma Kumaris
- Reweaving our Ecological Mat in the Pacific (Rev. James Bhagwan)
- Dave Bookless, Director of Theology at A Rocha International, IUCN member
- Alexandra Masako Goossens-Ishii, Soka Gakkai International (Buddhist network)
- Lindsey Fielder Cook & Sara Jolena Sequoia Wolcott, Quaker UN office & Sequoia Samanvaya
- Iyad Abu Moghli, Director of Faith for Earth, UNEP
List of dialogues
Community involvement in preventing and combating wildlife, forest and fisheries crime
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender
Moving Forward Together - Migration, Environmental Change & Conflict
