Zonibel Woods is the founder of the Women and Climate Change Foundation. A women's rights advocate with over 20 years of experience at the national and international levels, she is a member of Resurj. She was Program Manager of the Ford Foundation's Special Initiative on HIV and AIDS and previously led IWHC's global advocacy work at the United Nations and in other international fora. She is originally from El Salvador and is currently based in Manila, the Philippines.
During meetings to finalize the Rio+20 document, Heads of State will adopt in the next few days at Rio+20, delegates agreed on a plan short on vision and big on compromises, including trading away women’s rights to placate the Vatican, Egypt, and Syria.
In 1992, women’s human rights advocates played a critical role in shaping Agenda 21, ensuring that “three pillars” of sustainable development (social, environmental and economic) remained central to the sustainable development agenda, and that women remained central to all three pillars. Today, conservative forces are fighting to return to the past.
