AGENDA 21

 

Agenda 21

Chapter 24

Global action for women towards sustainable and equitable development


AIMS:

Agenda 21 to national governments:

  • Increase the proportion of women among the decision-makers, planners, technical advisers, managers and highly qualified personnel in the field of environmental issues and development.
  • Formulate and implement a clear governmental policy, national directives, strategy and plans allowing to institute equality of women from all social points of view…

WHY WOMEN?

The feminine principle consists:

  • In a positive approach to life, love, care
  • Emphasis on “being” not “ownership“
  • Creativity, complexity of vision
  • Sense of equality instead of hierarchical principles
  • Understanding on the basis of empathy, intuition...
  • Women do not consider nature as something “external”, but consider themselves and their surroundings as part of nature…
  • Relationships are women’s priority
  • Mothers cannot wish their children to live in a life-threatening environment, or to become victims of violence or war. To give birth and to raise a human being is much more difficult than to take somebody’s life...

CZECH REALITY

“When we have enough money, we can permit ourselves the luxury of a sound environment.” Václav Klaus

  • The president is a man
  • The government is 100 % masculine
  • In the Parliament and Senate more than 85 % of members are men
  • The 50 wealthiest people in our country are men
  • Criminality is up to 95 % men‘s business

THE RESULT IS:

A materialistic-consumerist society in which profit, money, prosperity and corruption is the vision human endeavors…

The present-day ideology of consumerist society is a threat to life on Earth on an unprecedented scale.

People go to work, in order to buy a car so that they get to work.

Stress, lack of time to cultivate interpersonal relations, to care not only for oneself and one’s own health but also to one’s environment and closest surroundings.

AGENDA 21

LIFE IS NOT FOR SALE

Jean Grossholtz, USA:„Globalization is the trend of total domination over all natural resources, labor forces and all other resources by corporations which are set up for one single purpose that of increasing profit.”

Maria Mies, Germany: “Women, children and nature are always the main victims of wars.”

Ursula Oswald Spring, Mexico: “Women represent 70 % of the poorest population of the world.”

Vandana Shiva, India: „We have been fighting more than fifty years ago against one type of colonialism, but now tha time has arrived when we all will have to repeat these efforts to keep our freedom.”


THINK GLOBALLY - ACT LOCALLY
THINK LOCALLY - ACT GLOBALLY

Agentura GAIA searches for new ways of interpersonal
communication in the field of environmental protection, education and culture.

Programs:

  • "Green means life" - The return of trees to our towns and communities
  • "Women and the environment" - Emphasizing the feminine principle in understanding the world
  • "Your purse or your life" - A way out of the worldwide environmental crisis