Events

Resilience in Global Food Systems: What Does This Look Like and What Will It Take?

Jun 2, 2019 - Jun 4, 2019 | Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD)
Washington, DC

Nourishing the world’s population in an era of increasing strain on planetary resources and boundaries requires a more resilient global food system. Yet how do…

Creating a Gender Equal World: the Transformative Power of Women's Rights to Land

Jun 2, 2019 | Landsea
Vancouver, Canada

Cocktail reception where guests will learn how to break down the barriers to gender-equal land rights, about a new global advocacy campaign to ensure women…

Warfare, Environment, Social Inequality, and Pro-Sociability Biennial Conference

May 23, 2019 - May 25, 2019 | Winthrop University and James Madison University
Seville, Spain

For over a millennia, warfare, environmental degradation, and social inequality have brought much suffering to humankind. In an effort to facilitate interdisciplinary cross-fertilization, WESIPS brings…

Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses and Feminist Politics

May 22, 2019 - May 24, 2019 | Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, University of Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland

The NORA conference 2019, on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities relying on contemporary and/or historical perspectives, focuses on the theme of material and symbolic…

Webinar from the USAID Soybean Innovation Lab and Partners: Gender & Land Matter in Rural Ghana and the World

May 2, 2019 | USAID's Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research
GoToWebinar US

The USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research (Soybean Innovation Lab, SIL) is hosting a webinar on Thursday, May 2, at 10 a.m. CDT…

Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific: Is Gender Relevant?

Apr 30, 2019 | ANU Climate Change Institute & ANU Gender Institute
Australia

Is gender a consideration for your program, project or research? Now is the time to reflect on this.

Women are often portrayed as more vulnerable to…

Beyond Land: Gender Equality in Restoration

Apr 29, 2019 | Global Landscapes Forum
Online

As climate advocates increasingly call for nature as the key to healing climate and biodiversity crises, the spotlight on restoration is growing. The recent announcement…

Leading Practices in Natural Resource Governance Workshop

Apr 24, 2019 - Apr 25, 2019 | Canadian International Resources and Development Institute
Vancouver, Canada

The Canadian International Resources and Development Institute (CIRDI) is pleased to invite you to our Leading Practices in Natural Resource Governance Workshop. The workshop will feature participants from…

How Much Land Does a Women Need? Women, Land Rights, and Rural Development

Apr 18, 2019 | Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
Boston, MA, USA

For more information and to register, please visit https://genderandsecurity.org/projects-resources/consortium-lectures/how-much-land-does-woman-need-women-land-rights-and-rural. 

Where: University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA

When: 18 April 2019

Organizers: Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, University of Massachusetts…

Webinar: Gender Equality in Agriculture: Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Women's Empowerment

Apr 17, 2019 | International Institute For Sustainable Development
Online

Gender equality in agriculture remains a challenge. Unequal power structures in rural households mean women often have difficulty accessing food for themselves, even though they…

Empowering Women By Balancing The Law

Apr 10, 2019 | The World Bank
Washington, DC

Empowering Women by Balancing the Law is an initiative that seeks to provide analytical and technical know-how to pilot countries in assessing and reforming laws…

Women Leading Nonviolent Movements

Mar 22, 2019 | United States Institute of Peace
Washington, D.C.

Women have often been the invisible actors in history—sidelined from formal political and social spaces—but creating their own spaces for change through engaging in nonviolent…

Diversity and Gender Matters: Doing More to Empower Women in the Peacebuilding Field

Mar 21, 2019 | Alliance for Peacebuilding
Washington, D.C.

Join the Alliance for Peacebuilding on Thursday, March 21st, from 9:00am to 10:45am at the Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E St NW, Washington,…

Linking Feminist Peace, Sustainable Development, and Postwar Infrastructure Reconstruction

Mar 12, 2019 | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
New York, NY

This interactive panel discussion will bring together women civil society leaders and scholars to show why women, peace and securty (WPS) advocates, if they are…

Launch of the Network of African Women Environmentalists

Mar 8, 2019 | UN Environment
Nairobi, Kenya

The Network of African Women Environmentalists (NAWE) will be launched on International Women's Day, by Dr. Juliette Biao, Director, Africa Office, UN Environment on the…

Strengthening Women's Role in Peace and Multilateralism

Mar 8, 2019 | Permanent Mission of Jordan, UNESCO Liaison Office in Geneva and the University for Peace
Geneva, Switzerland

In the context of the International Women's Day and the Centenary of the League of Nations, the Permanent Mission of Jordan, UNESCO Liaison Office in…

Global Water Security Forum: Water Governance - Challenges from a Gender Perspective

The UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Water Security in the FIU Institute of Environment & the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs invite…

Transnational Black Feminism & the Pursuit of Peace

In this interactive lecture, Hall aims to explore what a Transnational Black Feminist (TBF) framework has to offer peace studies. She will guide audience members…

Iraqi Women Speak: Promoting Women, Peace, and Security

What is the situation for women in Iraq today? What are the challenges to implementing the Women, Peace, and Security agenda that would ensure women’s equal and…

New UN e-learning course on gender and the environment

UN Environment Programme
Online

As part of our ongoing partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Hub has developed a new e-learning course on gender and the environment, which builds…

Rebel Women in the Civil War Peace Process with Jakana Thomas, University of California San Diego

In this talk, based on her forthcoming articles in the Journal of Politics and the American Political Science Review, Jakana Thomas—Associate Professor in the School…