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Safe Water and Sanitation: A Challenge for Gender Equality

Nov 1, 2021 | Wahid Bhat

Without clean and safe water there is no gender equality. Although access to water and sanitation has been recognized for more than a decade as…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Saffron Growers Worried Taliban Will Ban Heavily Female Workforce

Oct 31, 2021 | Arshad Mehmood, Media Line

Saffron has the potential to help ameliorate Afghanistan’s dire economic difficulties. The country has long produced some of the best saffron in the world, and…

COP26: Why Are Women Still Missing at the Top Climate Table

Oct 30, 2021 | Bonnie Chiu

When the global face to climate action is Greta Thunberg, it can appear that women and girls are well represented at the top table. As…

Half of Syria Has Been Displaced by War. Now Record Drought Threatens Millions More

Oct 30, 2021 | Bel Trew, Independent

Today Syria is in the grips of the worst drought in 70 years. The Khabour has run completely dry like other rivers, lakes and dams…

COP26: Why Are Women Still Missing at the Top Climate Table

Oct 30, 2021 | Bonnie Chiu

When the global face to climate action is Greta Thunberg, it can appear that women and girls are well represented at the top table. As…

USA: International Consultant to Develop a Policy Paper on the Linkages Between Gender, Conflict, and Climate Change in the Arab States Region

Oct 28, 2021 | UN Women

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…

Afghanistan: Exclusive - 'Women Encouraged to Work in Pine Nut Industry': Taliban to WION

Oct 28, 2021 | Anas Mallick, WION

Pine nuts, popularly known as Afghanistan's 'export gold', are one of the major sources of support for the country's economy, especially at a time like this…

Sierra Leone: From ECOWAS to New York: Beny Steinmetz Diamonds on Trial in Three Jurisdictions

Oct 27, 2021 | Africa Intelligence

People living close to the Koidu diamond mine in Sierra Leone fear the dismissal of a domestic court case against Beny Steinmetz's company Octea, which…

Can COP26 Become a Turning Point for Gender Responsive Climate Action?

Oct 26, 2021 | Mohammad Naciri, Samantha Hung, and Sun-Ah Kim

In a recent United Nations poll of young people in South Asia, 78 percent said that climate change has impacted their studies. More girls reported…

Can COP26 Become a Turning Point for Gender Responsive Climate Action?

Oct 26, 2021 | Mohammad Naciri, Samantha Hung, Sun-Ah Kim

Any meaningful international effort to address climate change must have women and girls at its center.

Afghanistan: Climate Now a Worse Crisis Than War for Afghanistan’s Farmers

Oct 26, 2021 | Al Jazeera

Drought stalks the parched fields around Afghanistan’s remote district of Bala Murghab, where the climate crisis is proving a deadlier foe than the country’s recent…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…