Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Issue #71 – February 21, 2025

Spotlight

This month's Spotlight was written by Natalia Jimenez Galindo, (Environmental Peacebuilding Consultant):

One Health and Gender Understanding for Environmental Peacebuilding

February 21, 2025 | Natalia Jimenez

“One Health” and “Ecosystem health” are both approaches that recognize the links between human, animal, and environmental health. Both approaches advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration and systems thinking to address health issues.

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Events

Advocate for Gender and Environmental Peacebuilding at These Events in 2025!

December 31, 2025

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Check out these exciting 2025 events in our infographic!

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Unmasking Mercury and Colorism in Cosmetics

March 5, 2025

Minamata Convention on Mercury, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the Geneva Environment Network

International Environment House 1, Geneva and Online

Hundreds of millions of people globally use skin-lightening products (SLPs).

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Library

Pathways to Integrate Gendered Care Work Into Climate Crisis Preparedness and Response

September 1, 2024

This brief offers six evidence-based, actionable recommendation pathways for emergency preparedness, response and crisis governance that can leverage gendered caregiving for solutions in climate-related emergencies.

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Jobs

US/Remote: Administration and Operations Fellow 

ABOUT THE HIVE FUND

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice is a specialized intermediary that raises funds and makes grants to groups working to accelerate the transition from dirty to clean…

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Remote: DAWN Fellowship for Young Women Feminists from the Global South

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a network of feminist researchers and activists from the Global South, dedicated to promoting economic and gender justice, as well as sustainable and…

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Cameroon: National Consultant - Biodiversity Strategy as an Important Entry Point for Women’s Empowerment in Aquatic Biodiversity and Environmental Management

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), a specialized technical office of the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (DARBE) of the African Union Commission (AUC), is…

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US: Associate Director, Our Secure Future

Organization Summary

PAX sapiens' mission is to prevent predictable global catastrophes through the creation of new systems of collective coordination that build a more peaceful world.

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International

Liberia: Golden Waste Solutions Launches Gender Mainstreaming Initiative to Empower Women in Waste Management

January 27, 2025 | Willie N. Tokpah

 In a pioneering move to foster gender equality in waste management, Golden Waste Solutions Enterprise Inc. has launched the Gender Mainstreaming in Waste Management project in Paynesville, Liberia.

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Indonesia: Indonesian Mother of Six Aims to Keep Papuan Tradition Alive by Saving Mangroves in Women-only Forest

January 27, 2025 | Denny Armandhanu

Papua province’s Youtefa Bay, known for its azure waters and lush mangrove forests, has seen infrastructure development that has helped improve locals’ lives and the economy.

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Colombia: For ALL Women and Girls: Sandra Patricia Aguilar Carabalí Believes that Women’s Leadership is Key to Protecting Colombia’s Environment and Peace

January 22, 2025 | UN Women

“Environmental sustainability is essential for lasting peace in Cauca, because the territory and its natural resources are the heart of our identity and survival,” says Sandra Patricia Aguilar Carabalí.

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Latin America: Latin Women Lead the Fight Against Climate Change Using Indigenous Agriculture

January 5, 2025 | The Latin American Post Staff

Throughout Latin America, indigenous women use old farming methods to fight climate change.

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Chad: “I Came to Help My Sisters”: As Chad Grapples with Record Floods and A Refugee crisis, Midwives Are Bridging the Divide

December 17, 2024 | UNFPA

“The water ruined everything – the rice, the money. . . Everything is under water.

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Blogs

How the World Can Tackle the Yawning Gender Gap in the Sciences

February 10, 2025 | UNEP Nature Action

With the planet facing a barrage of environmental concerns, there has never been a greater need for scientists capable of finding solutions to the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change; the…

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Restitution of Lands and Territories to Victims of Violent Dispossession and Displacement in Colombia

January 9, 2025 | Lucía Vásquez Celis

Forced displacement in Colombia has a differentiated and accentuated impact on women, the ethnic and peasant population, as well as children and adolescents.

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How Localization Supports Practical Solutions for Women, Peace, and Security

October 1, 2020 | Nanako Tamaru and Mirsad “Miki” Jacevic

This week marks the 20th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) which is the first of eleven resolutions that comprise the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda.

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Compiled by Maria Camilla Cadonicci, Erin Czelusniak, Eva Garces-Foley, Clare Hill, Natalia Jimenez, and Maryruth Belsey Priebe

Edited by Madeleine Loll

Coordinated by Mara Pusic 

Designed by Graham Campbell

Managed and Published by Silja Halle and Carl Bruch

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