Asia & Pacific
There are 218 resources related to Asia & Pacific.
The Role of Gender and Caste in Climate Adaptation Strategies in Nepal: Emerging Change and Persistent Inequalities in the Far-Western Region
2011
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Mountain Research and Development
Nisha Onta and Bernadette P. Resurreccion
The present article attempts to analyze the influence of gender and cultural relations on the process of climate change adaptation by presenting a study of…
The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush
2021
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New Yorker
Nicolas Niarchos
Cell phones and electric cars rely on the mineral, causing a boom in demand. Locals are hunting for this buried treasure—but are getting almost none of…
Promoting the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
2020
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UN Women
On 25 August 2017, the military offensive in Rakhine state, Myanmar, targeting the Rohingya escalated and the violence unleashed upon them forced them to flee…
IRC Watchlist 2021
2020
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International Rescue Commission
The IRC is launching Watchlist 2021 as a call to action for global leaders and the general public. Historically, the annual Watchlist was a humanitarian…
How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-Gender and Intra-Gender Gaps
2020
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Journal of Development Studies
Bina Agarwal, Pervesh Anthwal, and Malvika Mahesh
Measuring gender inequality in land ownership is essential for assessing progress in women’s economic empowerment, tracing the impact of progressive laws on actual practice, and…
Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders: Facing Gender-Based Violence in Defense of Land, Natural Resources and Human Rights
2021
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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…
"We Survived the Virus, but May Not Survive the Hunger": The Impact of COVID-19 on Afghanistan's Internally Displaced
2021
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Amnesty International
The COVID-19 pandemic has a disproportionate impact on Afghanistan’s more than four million internally displaced people (IDPs), as thousands of new displacements are registered every…
Creating a Gender-Inclusive Mining Industry: Uncovering the Challenges of Female Mining Stakeholders
2021
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Sari Marlina, Bambang S. Lautt, Aswin Usup, and Revi Sunaryati
Climate change has the most severe impact on women, but studies on adaptation in a gender perspective are still limited. The purposes of this study…
Analysis of Gender Roles in Philippine Fishing Communities
2020
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Journal of International Development
Elin Torell, Joan Castro, Alfredo Lazarte, and Danielle Bilecki
A gender analysis implemented to identify gender norms, resource use patterns and power relationships in fishing communities in the Philippines revealed that the roles of…
The Mediation Effect of Rural Women Empowerment Between Social Factors and Environment Conservation (Combination of Empowerment and Ecofeminist Theories)
2021
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Environment, Development and Sustainability
Mehdi Ghasemi, Mohammad Badsar, Leila Falahati, and Esmail Karamidehkordi
Women in developing countries are a key element of development, especially in terms of environmental conservation. Environmental issues have deep social concepts and are changing…
Disrupted Gender Roles in Australian Agriculture: First Generation Female Farmers' Construction of Farming Identity
2021
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Agriculture and Human Values
Lucie Newsome
This article examines the experiences of female farmers in the Australian context who neither married into nor were born into farming and how they construct…
The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus: Amplifying Women's Contributions at the Grassroots
2020
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
Jessica Smith, Lauren Olosky, and Jennifer Grosman Fernandez
This report explores the linkages between climate change and conflict and how gender is a cross-cutting lens through which people experience both issues. It studies…
Reinvigorating Resilience: Violence Against Women, Land Rights, and the Women's Peace Movement in Myanmar
2015
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Oxfam GB, Routledge
Hilary Faxon, Roison Furlong, and May Sabe Phyu
In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain…
Improving Governance of Tenure in Policy and Practice: The Case of Myanmar
2021
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Land Use Policy
Louisa J.M. Jansen, Patrick P. Kalas, and Marianna Bicchieri
With increasing pressures on scarce land and natural resources, responsible governance of tenure to protect rights and right holders of these resources becomes pivotal. Especially…
Intrastate Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding in Nepal: An Assessment of the Political and Economic Agency of Women
2016
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Portland State University
Gyanu Gautam Luintel
The proliferation of intrastate armed conflicts has been one of the significant threats to global peace, security, and governance. Such conflicts may trigger resource exploitation,…
Potential of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Reducing Women Farmers’ Drudgery in High Climatic Risk Areas
2020
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Climate Change
Arun Khatri-Chhetri, Punya Prasad Regmi, Nitya Chanana, and Pramod K. Aggarwal
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has a significant role to play in reducing the gender gap in labor burden for women in agriculture. A targeted approach to…
Rethinking “Participation” in Women, Peace and Security Discourses: Engaging with “Non-Participant” Women's Movements in the Eastern Borderlands of India
2020
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International Feminist Journal of Politics
Dipti Tamang
The contributions and experiences of women in conflict at the grassroots level in India are not well recognized by the Indian state. In this article,…
The United Nations Security Council, the Boe Declaration, and Upolu Luma Vaai’s Umbilical Cord – and Why They Matter for Peacebuilding in the Era of Man-Made Climate Change
2020
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Toda Peace Institute
Volker Boege
The paper commences with a comparison between the two existential threats mankind is confronted with today: nuclear threat and the threat of climate change. In…
When the Water Runs Out: The Rise (and Inevitable Fall) of the Deserts of Southwest Afghanistan and its Impact on Migration, Poppy and Stability
2020
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
The paper is based on fieldwork conducted over a ten-year period, using high-resolution remote imagery and in depth fieldwork charts, looking into the processes that…
Riskscapes of Gender, Disaster and Climate Change in Indonesia
2020
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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Ann R Tickamyer and Siti Kusujiarti
Three prominent disasters in Indonesia demonstrate the importance of gender roles, relations and practices in delineating the social and spatial relations of Riskscapes, with implications…
A Feminist Call to Be Radical: Linking Women's Health and Planetary Health
2020
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Politics & Gender
Maria Tanyag
Reflecting on the two previous conversations in Politics & Gender (2015 and 2017) regarding the diverging paths in global political economy and security studies that…
Standing up for Forest: A Case Study on Baiga Women's Mobilization in Community Governed Forests in Central India
2020
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Ecological Economics
Niharika Tyagi and Smriti Das
In response to state usurpation that threatened the livelihood and household well-being, Baiga women collectively struggled to regain control over local forest resources. The analysis…
The Australian Foreign Policy White Paper, Gender and Conflict Prevention: Ties that Don’t Bind
2020
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Australian Journal of International Affairs
Christine Agius and Anu Mundkur
After a 14-year gap, Australia’s 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper advanced a ‘comprehensive framework to advance Australia’s security and prosperity in a contested and competitive…
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Report of the Secretary General
2020
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United Nations
The past decade has seen a paradigm shift in global understanding of the impacts of the atrocity of conflict-related sexual violence, particularly in terms of…
Down the Green Feminist Road
2020
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Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Adalmiina Erkkola, Grace Armstrong
WILPF recognises the close relationship between the environment, women’s rights and peace. For this reason, at the Congress in 2018, WILPF launched the Environmental Peace…
Climate Change Adaptation and Gender Inequality: Insights from Rural Vietnam
2019
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Sustainability
Josephine Ylipaa, Sara Gabrielsson, and Anne Jerneck
Vietnam is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially from extreme weather events such as storms and floods. Thus, climate change…
Gender Integration in Climate Change and Agricultural Policies: The Case of Nepal
2019
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Bimala Rai Paudyal, Nitya Chanana, Arun Khatri-Chhetri, Lakpa Sherpa, Ishwori Kadariya, and Pramod Aggarwal
Gender integration across national policy processes is critical to ensure effective implementation of climate change adaptation interventions in agriculture. This is especially so for countries…
Case 1: Bangladesh
2020
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UN University Centre for Policy Research
Adam Day and Jessica Caus
Located in the world’s largest river delta, Bangladesh’s fertile territory and coastal waters sustain an extraordinarily dense and fast-growing population. With a majority of Bangladeshis…
Political Feminism and the Women's Movement in Thailand
2017
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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij
Commissioned with these issues in mind, this paper proposes four areas through which gender issues can be strategically politicized and based on feminist principles and…
The Myth of Empowerment: Gender, Conflict, and ‘Development’ in Kashmir
2020
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Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe
Samreen Mushtaq
This paper attempts to look at the discourse of development and empowerment in a conflict zone like Kashmir to explore how such narratives are employed…