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Posted Sat Mar 13 2010: from New York Times:
New U.N. Climate Change Group is All Male http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1268444017
 Women at some environmentally conscious nonprofits are indignant that a new group overseeing financing for a United Nations climate change effort has 19 members -- none of them women. The group's task is to allocate funds to developing countries to help mitigate the impact of climate change. "It includes equal representation between industrialized countries and developing countries," Elizabeth Becker, a member of Oxfam America, and Suzanne Ehlers, president of Population Action International, wrote in a joint blog post on Grist. "But what it does not include at all is women."
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