World Women’s Congress for a Healthy Planet (WEDO)

November 8 – 12, 1991
Miami, FL.

The World Women’s Congress for a Healthy Planet, in Miami Florida, Nov. 8-12, 1991
recorded by Let the People Speak, a project of the Foundation for a Compassionate Society.
More than 1500 women from over 80 countries assembled in Miami to discuss their vision of a healthy planet. The congress was convened to assure the participation of women in the 1992 United Nations Conference on environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 1992. These are exerpts from 4 days of Women voicing their concerns for the future of the planet.

World Women’s Congress for a Healthy Planet
abzug2 Opening Ceremony
Keynote speakers (Excerpts)
– Bella Abzug – cofounder of WEDO Women’s Environment & Development Organization
Margarita Arias – President, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, Costa Rica “We are living the present at the expense of the future”
Click to watch video
maathai First Tribunal (Excerpts)
Towards Earth Charter 1992: Developing a Code of Earth Ethics with a Women’s Dimension
– Professor Wangary Maathai – founder Green Belt Movement, Kenya
– Magda Renner – executive President Acao Democratic Feminina Gaucha. Amigos de terra Brazil.
– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Vice President Equator Advisory service, Liberia
– Peggy Antrobus – Women’s Development (WAND), Barbados
– Dr Rosalle Bertell – President International Institue of Concern for Public Health, Canada
– Meena Raman – Friends of the Earth Third World Network, Malaysia
Click to watch video
waring Second Tribunal (Excerpts) – Saving Natural Systems: Environment and Positive Development
– Marilyn Waring – Senior Lecturer/ Political Economy, University of Wallkato, New Zealand
– Carrie Dann – Clan Mother, Onondage Nation
– Leonor Briones – President Freedom Debt Coalition, Philipines
– Ruth Bamela Engo-Tjega – Senior liaison officer – UN Steering Committee, Action for African Economic Recovery & Development, Cameroon
Click to watch video
third_tribuneral Third Tribunal (Excerpts) – Science, Technology and Population

– Blanca Esponda – Senator, State of Chiapas, Mexico
– Vandana Shiva, Director, Research Foundation For Natural Resources, India
– Marilyn Carr – Senior Technical Officer, UN Developmental Fund for Women, United Kingdom
– Renate Walker – Physician &Microbiologist, Institute for Environmental Medicine, Vienna, Austria (formerly East Germany)
– Claudine Schneider – Former member US House of Representatives
– Audience comments on the tribunals
Click to watch video
abzug2 First Tribunal (Complete) – Towards Earth Charter ’92: Developing a Code of Earth Ethics with a Women’s Dimension
– Dr. Rosalle Bertell – President, International Institue of Concern for Public Health, Canada
– Meena Raman – Friends of the Earth, Third World Network, Malaysia

Click to watch video

waring Second Tribunal, Part 1 – (Complete) – Saving Natural Systems: Environment and Positive Development
– Marilyn Waring – Senior Lecturer, University of Wallkato, New Zealand
– Carrie Dann – Clan Mother – Onondage Nation
Click to watch video
briones Second Tribunal, Part 2 – (Complete) – Saving Natural Systems: Environment and Positive Development
– Leonor Briones – President, Freedom Debt Coalition, Philipines
– Ruth Bamela Engo-Tjega – Senior liaison officer/UN Steering Committee, Action for African Economic Recovery & Development, Cameroon
Click to watch video
esponda Third Tribunal, Part 1 (Complete) – Science, Technology and Population
– Blanca Esponda – Senator, State of Chiapas, Mexico
– Vandana Shiva – Director, Research Foundation For Natural Resources, India
Click to watch video
carr Third Tribunal, Part 2 (Complete) – Science, Technology and Population
– Marilyn Carr – Senior Technical Officer UN Developmental Fund for Women, United Kingdom
– Renate Walker – Physician & Microbiologist – Institute for Environmental Medicine, Vienna Austria (formerly East Germany)
Click to watch video
schneider Third Tribunal, Part 3 (Complete) – Science, Technology and Population
– Claudine Schneider – Former member US House of Representatives
– Audience comments on the tribunals
Click to watch video
wiltshire Interviews
Dr. Rosina Wiltshire from Barbados
From DAWN (Development Alternatives for Women)
Wealth as hoarding and overconsumption
Click to watch video
renner Interviews
Magda Renner – ACAO Democratic Feminina Gaucha
Amigos de terra Brazil. Demands for a healthy environment for children
Click to watch video
danielson Interviews
Marie Therese Danielsson, from French Polynesia, Tahiti
Environmental impact of Nuclear testing
Click to watch video
ingram Interviews
Takiora Ingram – Cook Island Business and Professional Women’s Association
Concern about nuclear weapons testing by France with the support of the US
Click to watch video
aitsi Interviews
Louise Aitsi – Papua New Guinea Women’s Council
Social and environmental impact of non-traditional ways
Click to watch video
laduke Interviews
Winona La Duke – Anishinabe Nation
Speaking against Free Trade Agreement
Click to watch video
dann Interviews
Carrie Dann – Clan Mother – Western Shohone Onondaga Nation
Fighting for the title of the Western Shoshone Land
Click to watch video
manibusan Interviews
Marylin Manibusan – Guam Senate Agana, Guam
Seeking self-determination for Guam
Click to watch video
shiva Interviews
Vandana Shiva – Director, Research Foundation For Natural Resources, India
Dangers of genetic engineering of new plant forms
Click to watch video
letchte Interviews
Ruth Letchte – World YWCA Energy environment, Fiji
Climate Changes and Global Warming
Click to watch video
farenthold2 Interviews
Sissy Farenthold – Chair Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C.
Pollution by the US military and Free trade
Click to watch video
johnson Interviews
Mal Johnson – Media Linx, Washington, DC
Training women to utilize the Media
Click to watch video