Blogs & Opinions
COVID-19: Why Policymakers Need a Gender-focused Approach for Health and Economic Recovery
Apr 2, 2020
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Julia Arnold, Elizabeth Anderson, Smriti Rao, and Sarah Gammage
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to engulf the world, questions of post-disaster recovery must be at the forefront of the conversation. We’re still far from…
Learning from Dalit Women Fighting for Land Rights in Punjab
Mar 31, 2020
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Tarini Manchanda
Stories about Dalit women often go untold, even though women of this social category continue to face discrimination in the caste system as the most oppressed social…
Chitra Nagarajan on What’s Changed for Women in Lake Chad Region
Mar 27, 2020
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Wania Yad
“Women and men face very different risks and challenges,” said Chitra Nagarajan, a writer and journalist who covers climate change, conflict, and gender. She spoke in…
Earth Hour Reminds us Tackling Climate Change Needs Gender Equality
Mar 27, 2020
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Kalpana Giri
Forests are vital to tackling climate change. But if we are to succeed in our efforts to save the Earth, we must think beyond conservation,…
Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women
Mar 26, 2020
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Celine Salcedo-La Vina
The international community now fully recognizes the need to secure women’s land rights. The Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s blueprint for development, include women’s land ownership…
Women and Peace and Security in the Time of Corona
Mar 25, 2020
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Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
2020: It was always going to be a big year for the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda; twenty years since the UN Security Council’s…
Women Lose Most from the Climate Crisis. How Can we Empower Them?
Mar 24, 2020
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Tharanga Gunawardena
Extreme climate events are increasingly threatening countries and livelihoods. Devastating natural disasters and unpredictable weather have made communities more vulnerable and impoverished, especially women. According…
Gender and Climate-The Importance of Women's Leadership in Climate Action in Singapore and Hong Kong
Mar 23, 2020
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John Sayer
At the most recent UN climate talks in Madrid in December 2019, one positive outcome was the approval of a new Gender Action Plan that…
Women & Climate: Planting a Global Forest in a Connected World
Mar 23, 2020
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Rita Ann Wallace and Cynthia S Reyes
In January of this year, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shocked much of the world when they…
Herstory: 10 Guatemalan Women Who Changed the Course of History
Mar 20, 2020
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Melissa Vida
Guatemala’s Indigenous peoples make up 60% of the country’s population, yet somehow Indigenous people—and especially Indigenous women—rarely made it into history books. Overall, there seems…
6 Reasons Gender Equality Is Crucial to Achieving the UN's Global Goals
Mar 16, 2020
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Joe McCarthy
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision a world without poverty, hunger, and conflict; one with access to health care, education, and economic opportunity — in short,…
Why Feminine Leadership Is Essential for the Clean Energy Transition
Mar 13, 2020
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Sarah Golden
Feminine leadership is essential to solving society’s largest, intractable challenges, according to Sarah Shanley Hope, executive director of the Solutions Project.
The Solutions Project is a small…
Women and the Environment: Roles, Risks and Rights
Mar 12, 2020
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Theresa W. Devasahayam
“Each year, the month of March is a crucial time for women’s organisations worldwide as we take stock of the progress women and girls in…
Why I Marched for the Environment on International Women's Day
Mar 12, 2020
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Katy Wiese
Last Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), a ground-breaking resolution that set out objectives in 12…
An Ambitious Year for Climate Action Is a Big Year for Women's Empowerment
Mar 9, 2020
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Frank Rijsberman and Ingvild Solvang
This year, the Paris Agreement’s effectiveness as a global response to the climate crisis is being tested as governments are preparing to submit more ambitious…
Scaling-Out Gender Transformation for Climate Change
Mar 9, 2020
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Sophie Huyer and Heidi Braun
Climate change has enormous implications for women in the developing world through increased workloads, food insecurity, threats to health, and more responsibilities due to male…
Reframing the Debate Around Women, Peace and Security
Mar 8, 2020
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Shreen Abdul Saroor
When a peace deal is struck between warring factions, it is widely understood that peace has been achieved. However, when key sections of society—in most…
Supporting More Than Equal Numbers in International Climate Debates
Mar 8, 2020
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Brianna Craft and Samantha McCraine
#EachforEqual is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. It recognises that equality requires everyone’s support and that, when we all support each other, we…
Women's Safety Means Earth's Safety
Mar 8, 2020
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Jessica Carey-Webb
Across the world, women are actively protecting the natural environment. In Latin America, despite consistent threats of violence and widening gender inequality due to climate…
Women's Rights Are Early Casualties of War
Mar 8, 2020
When conflict and crisis strike displacement, hunger, and poverty follow. But, all too often, it is women’s rights that become the early casualties of war.…
Can Green Development Be Fair Development?
Mar 8, 2020
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Helen Schneider
Aceh is Indonesia’s westernmost province, situated on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra where the Andaman Sea, Malacca Straits and Indian Ocean converge.…
Strategies for Integrating Gender in Sustainable Ecosystem Management
Mar 8, 2020
Understanding men and women’s different roles and responsibilities related to the use, management and conservation of ecosystems and addressing the barriers to gender equality are…
Want to Go for Inclusive Climate Action? Then Start with Integrating Gender Equality into Climate Finance
Mar 8, 2020
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Verania Chaeo and Koh Miyaoi
Gender equality and women’s rights have progressed immensely since the adoption of the most visionary agenda on women’s empowerment, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for…
Power Structures over Gender Make Women More Vulnerable to Climate Change
Mar 8, 2020
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Adelle Thomas
As the global community assesses progress made for women’s rights during the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, it is timely to take stock…
International Women's Day 2020: Women, War and Water in Yemen
Mar 6, 2020
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Leonie Nimmo
On International Women’s Day 2018 the UN Envoy to Yemen received an open letter calling on him to take a firm stand on women’s demands and to…
Gender Inequality Must Be Addressed for Our Work to Make a Lasting Difference
Mar 6, 2020
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Danny Harvey
I started working in international development over 20 years ago. Very enthusiastic, I believed my knowledge and skills in agriculture would bring about real transformation…
Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms: Can Climate-Smart Agriculture Produce Gender Equality?
Mar 6, 2020
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Sophia Huyer, Samuel Partey, and Bruce Campbell
As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on women. Most research focuses on women’s vulnerability as a result…
Making Gender Equality Integral to Global Agricultural Research
Mar 6, 2020
Our food systems face unprecedented challenges, from increasingly unpredictable weather to acute biodiversity loss. To feed a population of over 9.6 billion people in 2050, the…
Women Ally with Nature to Adapt to Climate Change
Mar 6, 2020
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Gabriela Flores
Nature-based solutions to the global environment crisis are increasingly in the spotlight. High-profile individuals such as campaigner Greta Thunberg and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as business and governments, have all emphasised…
Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women
Mar 6, 2020
Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate change is…