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Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Land-Filling on Disputed Reef in Spratlys, Imagery Shows

Oct 22, 2021 | Radio Free Asia

Vietnam appears to be doing new construction and land-filling on a remote reef it occupies in the disputed South China Sea, commercial satellite imagery shows.…

Gendering Just Transition

Oct 22, 2021 | Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

As policymakers across the world look to shift their power sources away from coal, they must keep in mind the gendered impacts of their energy…

How Gender Matters in the Climate Fight

Oct 22, 2021 | Shia Kapos

When it comes to fighting climate change, it turns out gender matters.

Ahead of a major United Nations climate conference that begins later this month, a new…

Ghana: Exclusion of Women in Peacebuilding Threat to Development

Oct 22, 2021 | Prince Acquah

The Executive Secretary of the National Peace Council (NPC), Mr George Amoh, has stated that the exclusion of women in peace building and security issues…

Register Now for the Geneva Peace Week 2021

Oct 21, 2021

Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar, and the flagship event of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This year,…

Iraq: Gender Project Manager

Oct 20, 2021 | Oxfam

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon…

South Sudan: Gender Equality and Gender-Based Violence Officer

Oct 20, 2021 | International Organization for Migration

IOM in South Sudan has a broad range of programming centered around three broad areas: humanitarian coordination and support; humanitarian response and resilience; and peacebuilding,…

Libya: GBV Specialist for the Delivery of Gender Training Package

Oct 20, 2021 | TRUST Consultancy & Development

Trust is looking for specialized trainers to conduct training in three locations in Libya: Tripoli, Sabha and Benghazi, over November and December 2021. This training…

Pakistan: Senior Research Officer (Gender and Social Inclusion)

Oct 20, 2021 | International Water Management Institute

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (www.iwmi.org) is looking for a dynamic, self-motivated individual to join as a Senior Research Officer (Gender and Social Inclusion),…

Call for Consultants: Gender Guidance for WASH Projects at WaterAid

Oct 20, 2021 | WaterAid

WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid…

South Sudan: UNHCR Responding to Worst Flooding in Decades in South Sudan

Oct 19, 2021 | UNHCR

Weeks of heavy rain have caused unrelenting floods, affecting more than 700,000 people across the country, UNHCR Representative in the country Arafat Jamal said on Tuesday.  

The rains…

Palestine/Syria: Access to Natural Resources by Palestinians, Syrians Should Not Be Denied, Delegates Tell Second Committee

Oct 18, 2021 | UN

Israel’s ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories and the Syrian Golan, colliding with the impacts of the COVID‑19 pandemic, have turned into a crisis within…

Filling Gender Gap in Agriculture: Viable Opportunities for Women

Oct 17, 2021 | Sorina Buzatu

Country life may be romantic, but regional development counts too. Digitalisation can help boost gender equality and curb rural poverty

Despite women playing a key role…

Bangladeshi Women’s Leadership in Water Governance

Oct 16, 2021

Women in Bangladesh play a crucial role in collecting water, often bearing the brunt of physical labor and household chores. Despite women and girls playing…

Ghana: Plan International Ghana Supports Vulnerable Rural Women with WISE Project

Oct 16, 2021 | News Ghana

Plan International Ghana through its project “Women’s Innovation for Sustainable Enterprise” (WISE), is organising series of activities to commemorate this year’s International Day of Rural…

The Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment: 6 Things You Need to Know

Oct 15, 2021 | UN

On 8 October, loud and unusual applause reverberated around the chamber of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. A battle fought for decades by…

International Day Honours Rural Women’s Critical Role in Feeding the World

Oct 15, 2021 | UN News

Although rural women and girls have an essential role in food systems, they still do not have equal power with men, therefore earn less, and experience higher levels of…

Nigeria: Female Farmers Seek an End to Gender Disparities in Ownership of Land Holdings in Agriculture

Oct 15, 2021 | Great Ozozoyin

Female farmers in Taraba State have again expressed sadness at the way and manner they are often being relegated to the background in allocating lands…

How Can Climate Considerations Be Better Integrated into the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda?

Oct 15, 2021 | Adriana Abdenur, Mayesha Alam, Adam Day, Cristal Downing, and Beatrice Mosello

As the impacts of climate change become more clear—starkly outlined this August by the International Panel on Climate Change’s latest report—responses to them will require an…

Colombia: Violence, Land Issues Pose Challenges to Colombia's Peace Process: UN Envoy

Oct 15, 2021 | Xinhua

Violence and land issues continue to pose challenges to the implementation of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of…

In a Flashpoint South Sudanese Town, Women Peacemakers Try to Bridge the Divide

Oct 14, 2021 | Natalia Ojewska

More than 18 months into a power-sharing government between South Sudan’s rival leaders, local conflicts still simmer, undermining a fragile peace accord. But in the…

Focus on Women and Girls Matters as Disaster Risks Shift

Oct 14, 2021 | Riyanti Djalante and Mohammad Naciri

At its heart, ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response has a simple but visionary objective to reduce disaster risks and losses in lives. …

The Women’s Agenda for Climate Crisis

Oct 14, 2021

80% of the world’s resources are looked after, consolidated by women across the globe. If that is not an agenda that Women Peace and Security…

North Macedonia: Women Agricultural Producers in North Macedonia Get Help to Grow Their Businesses

Oct 13, 2021 | Mirage News

Under a new measure achieved through gender-responsive budgeting, 250 women farmers received financial support to expand their businesses.

Yemen: Qat-to-Coffee for Climate Resilience and Human Security

Oct 12, 2021 | UNDP

This project aims to support improved climate security and boost employment in Yemen by piloting the transition from Qat-to-Coffee. The Qat sector has grown immensely…

Educating Girls: The Overlooked Solution to Climate Change

Oct 12, 2021 | T. Shawn Taylor

Addressing a global challenge as complex as climate change demands a full suite of solutions and actors, but one powerful intervention is widely overlooked: educating…

Afghanistan: UN Chief Slams ‘Broken’ Taliban Promises Made to Women, Girls

Oct 11, 2021 | Al Jazeera

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed the Taliban’s “broken” promises to Afghan women and girls, and urged the world to inject cash into Afghanistan in…

International Day of Rural Women Theme: Rural Women Cultivating Good Food For All

Oct 11, 2021 | Charles Mulungi

This year, the International Day of Rural Women (15 October), puts a spotlight on “Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All.”

NEW YORK, USA, October 11,…

Iraq/Lebanon/South Sudan: UK Funding for Land Mine Clearance Scrapped in Lebanon, Iraq and S. Sudan

Oct 9, 2021 | New Arab

UK government funding for land mine clearance in Lebanon, Iraq and South Sudan, as well as three other countries, has been scrapped in what humanitarian…

India: Risk Factors for Gender-Based Violence: The Case of Indian Agriculture

Oct 8, 2021 | OXFAM

The present study documents the incidence of domestic and workplace violence among Indian female agricultural workers, and the factors that put these women at risk…