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Indigenous and Rural Women's Voices: Recommendations to Address Climate Security Risks in Colombia

2022 | DCAF
Linda Sánchez Avendaño

From an ecofeminist and human security perspective, this study aims to contribute to filling this existing gap by developing actionable recommendations that can be replicated…


Gender and the Environment: Building Evidence and Policies to Achieve the SDGs

2021 | OECD

Gender equality and environmental goals are mutually reinforcing, with slow progress on environmental actions affecting the achievement of gender equality, and vice versa. Progress towards…


Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders: Facing Gender-Based Violence in Defense of Land, Natural Resources and Human Rights

2021 | International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Natural resources and ecosystem services directly support millions of people’s livelihoods, providing food and water, being part of cultural and communal identities and supporting rights…


Shifting Conceptions of Gender Justice in EU Policy on Women, Peace, and Security

2020 | GLOBUS Research Paper
Heidi Riley

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security was a landmark resolution passed in 2000 that, for the first time, recognised the…


Masculinity and Gender: Interventions to End Gender-Based Violence

2021 | International Journal of Political Activism and Engagement
Jeffrey Kurebwa

The purpose of this study is to provide interventions to end gender-based violence (GBV). Most of the GBV interventions that have been used are mainly…


The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: A Colombian Perspective

2021 | International Affairs
Keina Yoshida and Lina M. Céspedes-Báez

On 12 November 2019, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace ( JEP), handed down a landmark decision in the case of ‘Katsa Su’ concerning the Awa…


Women, Internal Displacement and the Boko Haram Conflict: Broadening the Debate

2020 | African Security
Titilope F Ajayi

Women and children make up 79 per cent of the population displaced by the conflict between the Nigerian government and the armed movement informally known…


Hacia el Buen Vivir con Igualidad de Género y Justicia Ambiental: Análisis de Género de los Objectivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en 5 Países de Latinoamérica

2020 | Global Forest Coalition
Juana Vera Delgado

Reconocer, entender, y enfrentar las causas de las brechas de género existentes en las comunidades rurales, forestales, e indígenas motivó a las organizaciones miembros de…


Toward Buen Vivir with Gender Equality and Environmental Justice: Gender Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals in Five Countries in Latin America

2020 | Global Forest Coalition
Juana Vera Delgado

Global Forest Coalition (GFC) member organizations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia have conducted gender assessments in the communities that they work in based on…


Gender Perspective in Water Management: The Involvement of Women in Participatory Water Institutions of Eastern India

2020 | Water
Varsha Khandker, Vasant P. Gandhi, and Nicky Johnson

The paper examines the extent, nature, and factors affecting women’s involvement in participatory irrigation institutions of eastern India. Effective participatory water institutions are urgently needed…


Women and Environment - Ecofeminism and Environmental Movements in India

2020 | Our Heritage
Rani Tyagi

A gendered study of this paper demonstrates the relation between women and natural environment, where women is closely related with nature because of their biological…


Gender Roles in Peace and Security

2019 | Springer
Manuela Scheuermann and Anja Zürn

The disastrous consequences for the rights and physical and psychological protection of women during the wars of the 1990s, primarily in Somalia, Rwanda and Ex-Yugoslavia,…


Toward Gender Sensitivity: Women and Climate Change Policies in China

2020 | International Feminist Journal of Politics
Yuan Zhou and Xiaoyan Sun

Climate change and environmental protection have become increasingly important in China. The country has formulated and strictly enforced a series of policies to address climate…


Women in War and Peace: Grassroots Peacebuilding

2000 | United States Institute of Peace
Donna Ramsey Marshall

The United States Institute of Peace strives, through research, education, and training, to understand this role of nongovernmental entities in bringing about a stable peace…


Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages: The Violence of Inequality

2020 | IUCN, GPGR
I. Castaneda Carney, L. Sabater, C. Owren, A.E. Boyer, and J. Wen

Rooted in discriminatory gender norms and laws and shrouded in impunity, gender-based violence (GBV) occurs in all societies as a means of control, subjugation and exploitation…


Gender and Defence Sector Reform: Problematising the Place of Women in Conflict-Affected Environments

2019 | Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Eleanor Gordon

While gender-responsive Security Sector Reform (SSR) is increasingly recognised as being key to successful SSR programmes, women continue to be marginalised in post-conflict SSR programmes,…


Impacts of Climate Change Induced Migration on Gender: A Qualitative Study from the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh

2019 | International Journal of Social Science Studies
Ishita Shahid Sams

The aim of this study is to explore the gender variation of the impact of climate change induced migration. This paper highlights the gender dimensions…


Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment

2019 | International Organization
Kaitlyn Webster, Chong Chen and Kyle Beardsley

How do periods of conflict and peace shape women's empowerment around the world? While existing studies have demonstrated that gender inequalities contribute to the propensity…


Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment

2019 | Elgar
Nora Gotzmann

Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) has increasingly gained traction among state, business and civil society actors since the endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles…


Governance, Gender and the Appropriation of Natural Resources: A Case Study of ‘Left-Behind’ Women’s Collective Action in China

2019 | Society & Natural Resources
Yanqiang Du, Neil Ravenscroft, Yan Wang, and Pingyuan Liu

China’s rapid urbanization has created large scale of population migration, resulting in many villages being dominated by “left-behind” women, and weak governance of those collectively…


Energy, Gender, and GBV in Emergencies: State of Principles, Knowledge, and Practice

2019 | Women's Refugee Commission
Women's Refugee Commission and Mercy Corps

The Women's Refugee Commission and Mercy Corps’ Energy in Emergencies: Reducing Risks of Gender-based Violence (EEMRG) project, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau…


A Constructive Leadership Approach of Poor Tribal Women, Towards Equitable and Gender just Relations around Common Land

2019 | Indiana University
Shailendra Tiwari

This paper highlights struggle of poor tribal women towards protection and conservation of village common lands i.e. forestland, village pastures and reservoirs. These studies capture…


Resettlement Post Conflict: Risk and Protective Factors and Resilience Among Women in Northern Uganda

2018 | International Social Work
Joanne N Corbin and J Camille Hall

Approximately 1.8 million people were displaced in northern Uganda as a result of the LRA conflict. This paper explores risk and protective factors as well…


Women Peace and Security Report of the Secretary-General

2019 | United Nations Security Council

The present report is submitted pursuant to the presidential statement dated 26 October 2010 (S/PRST/2010/22), in which the Security Council requested annual reports on the…


Gender, Cash Assistance, and Conflict: Gendered Protection Implications of Cash and Voucher Assistance in Somalia/Somaliland

2019 | USAID and CARE
Jillian J. Foster, Allison McGrath, and Sarah Littisha Jansen

Protection issues are multi-dimensional in Somalia and Somaliland. Vulnerability is as much about physical violence as it is about drought and chronic food insecurity. The…


A Woman's Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11

2019 | Hurst Publishers
Joana Cook

The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis…


ASEAN's Transformative Journey: Role of Women in Peace and Security

2019 | Nanyang Technological University
Noeleen Heyzer

ASEAN has embarked on exploring how to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the region. It has recently organised “an inaugural intersectoral…


Operationalizing a Feminist Foreign Policy: Recommendations for the US Government

2019 | One Earth Future, Our Secure Future
Stephenie Foster, Susan Markham, and Sahana Dharmapuri

This document focuses on how to operationalize a new feminist foreign policy within the US context. First, it sets out the existing international and national…


Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2019

2019 | UN Women, Women Count, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

The ‘leave no one behind’ approach aims to identify not only who is left behind, but also the ways in which marginalization and exclusion are…


Women, Peace and Security and the Prevention of Violence: Reflections from Civil Society in the Context of the Fourth Swiss National Action Plan 1325

2019 | PeaceWomen Across the Globe, CFD The Feminist Peace Organisation, Swiss Platform for Peacebuilding KOFF
Elizabeth Mesok

This report is the result of extensive desk-based research, interviews, and continuous discussions with civil society organizations (CSOs) and experts on Women, Peace and Security…