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Climate Change: Looking at Security through the Climate Lens

Nov 26, 2020 | Michelle Langrand, Geneva Solutions

As global warming gains ground, the security implications of the climate threat can no longer be ignored. But as the Covid-19 pandemic enters its tenth…

Liberia: 30 GoL Employees Train on Gender Sensitive, Land, Concession Reporting

Nov 26, 2020 | David A. Yates, Daily Observer

Over 30 employees from three autonomous agencies of Government have acquired an intensive three-days training in gender-sensitive, land and concession reporting organized by UN Women…

Can Promotion Groups Help Strengthen Women’s Access and Control over Land?

Nov 24, 2020 | Ibrahima Dia

In Senegal, women’s ‘promotion groups’ have traditionally been vehicles for helping women share resources, ideas and experiences to increase income. But they are also –…

Liberia: Two Shot, Village Burnt in River Cess Riot over Mineral-rich Forestland

Nov 24, 2020 | James Harding Giahyue, FrontPage Africa

Two men have been injured and a village destroyed in a riot over potentially mineral-rich forestland over the weekend in River Cess County, local authorities…

Worsening Land Inequality Widens Gender, Climate Change Gaps

Nov 24, 2020 | Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Land inequality is growing worldwide, threatening the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people who directly rely on farming and widening disparities in gender, health and climate-change…

Sierra Leone: ‘We See the Sparks Before They Turn into Fires’: Training Women to Avoid Conflict in Sierra Leone

Nov 21, 2020 | UN News

In the West African country of Sierra Leone, the UN is supporting a government programme, training women and men to take on leadership roles in…

Liberia: Nimba Clans Clash over Forest

Nov 20, 2020 | William Q. Harmon, Observer

Dubuzon Clan wants to legalize ownership of its ancestral land, stretching 8,534 acres along the banks of the Cestos River towards Liberia’s border with Cote…

Lebanon: Women’s Protection and Empowerment Senior Manager

Nov 18, 2020 | International Rescue Committee

The IRC is seeking a Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Senior Manager with a strong background on GBV interventions (including prevention, mitigation and response) and…

Afghanistan: Gender-Based Violence Program Manager

Nov 18, 2020 | International Medical Corps

The GBV Program in Afghanistan has two projects currently with very different approaches. The current IMC Health Sector Response to GBV program, funded by UNFPA,…

Afghanistan: Women deny land inheritance in Bamyan

Nov 18, 2020 | MENAFN

KABUL: The Afghan women are facing a drastic challenge in land inheritance issues in the central province of Bamyan, where they refuse to be given.…

Afghanistan: Academy of Science of Afghanistan Organizes Seminar on Water Management

Nov 17, 2020 | Afghanistan Times

The Academic of Science of Afghanistan has organized a one day seminar to discus Afghanistan water management and to deal with the issue form knowledgeable…

Integrate Gender When Designing Climate Policy

Nov 16, 2020 | Mara Dolon and Jessica Olson

The team of people tasked with coordinating the global climate change negotiations for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in 2021, we recently learned, consists…

In the Caribbean, Climate Change Is a Gender Issue

Nov 16, 2020

Caribbean countries are vulnerable to climate change and its impacts, including rising sea levels, extreme and unpredictable weather (including natural disasters), drought and flooding, biodiversity…

Will Bangladesh Ever See An End To Gender-Based Violence?

Nov 16, 2020 | Rosie Pasqualino

Acid and dowry-based attacks have been particularly prominent in the country, though sexual, physical, psychological and economic abuse has been recognized as forms of abuse…

Masculinity Is the Unspoken Undercurrent in Trumpism and the Fracking Debate

Nov 16, 2020 | Zack Rearick

Deindustrialization emasculates. It hits at men’s pride and devalues a kind of blue-collar physicality that has traditionally been revered (glorified in culture) and rewarded (paid…

Cameroon: Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Specialist

Nov 12, 2020 | UNFPA

Under the direct supervision of the Representative, and the functional supervision of the Humanitarian Coordinator. The incumbent facilitates the rapid implementation of UNFPA´s multi-sectoral GBV…

Ukraine: Epidemic of Violence against Women in Conflict-Torn East

Nov 11, 2020 | Amnesty International

Survivors of domestic violence in eastern Ukraine are not able to seek protection against violence against them due to the government’s ineffective response, Amnesty International…

Gender Equality Is "Essential" to Global Coronavirus Recovery, Norway's Prime Minister Says

Nov 10, 2020 | Elizabeth Elkin, CBS News

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Tuesday that while the coronavirus pandemic has been devastating across the globe, women and girls have been hit "especially…

Mexico: Cross-Border Clash Signals Growing Dispute as Mexico Drowns in Water Debt

Nov 10, 2020 | Laetitia Dogbe, Organization for World Peace

Last August was the driest in 90 years, leaving Mexico unable to pay its water obligations to the superpower next door. Mexico’s deadline to pay…

Several US States Advanced Gender Equality on Election Day

Nov 6, 2020 | Amanda Klasing, Human Rights Watch

With all eyes seemingly on the US presidential election, it’s easy to miss some of the exciting progress made on gender equality at the state…

Liberia: Liberia Gender Minister Raps on Green Climate Action — Says Liberia's Farming Method Has to Change

Nov 5, 2020 | Eric Pervist, Modern Ghana

Liberia's Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Williametta E. Saydee-Tarr, reechoed Liberia's case at the 2020 World Green Growth Summit. The World Green Growth…

Liberia: Rural Women Seek Land Ownership Rights

Nov 3, 2020 | David A. Yates, Daily Observer

Rural Women from 10 of the 15 counties of Liberia have called on the local authorities, national leaders, civil society organizations (CSOs) and development partners…

South Sudan: Brief: Impact of COVID-19 in South Sudan

Nov 3, 2020 | Africa Oil & Power

Like most of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Sudan has been relatively spared by the COVID-19 pandemic so far, with the number of infections just below 3,000…

Protecting Women with More than Words

Nov 2, 2020 | Margot Wallström and Dan Smith

While the global conversation about protecting women and girls has improved in the 20 years since the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution…

South Sudanese Women on the Move: Their Roles in Conflict and Peacebuilding

Nov 2, 2020 | Marisa O. Esnor

Enduring violence, climate change and other environmental crises force people in South Sudan to flee their home towns. Women and girls face gender-specific challenges and…

Afghanistan: Taliban Fund War Machine by Mining Raghistan's Gold

Nov 2, 2020 | Afghanistan Times

Residents of Raghistan district in northeastern Afghanistan say that Badakhshan gold mines are now under Taliban control as insurgency has gained momentum in the provinces.…

Afghanistan: Supporting Saffron Production in Afghanistan

Nov 2, 2020 | Antoinette Fang, Borgen Magazine

SEATTLE, Washington — Saffron is one of the most prized spices in the world, termed by some as “red gold.” It is one of the…

Liberia: Consultancy to Conduct a Gender and Conflict Analysis along the Coast

Nov 1, 2020 | Conservation International

Conservation International is an American nonprofit environmental organization whose mission is to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity, such as…

Cambodia: National Consultant, Gender and Child Labour in Fisheries

Nov 1, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…

Kenyan: The Fight for Laikipia’s Key Rivers: Why Locals Are Fighting for Rivers in Laikipia

Oct 30, 2020 | Jacinta Mutura, Standard

River Mutara is a lifeline for more than 30,000 households, livestock and wildlife in Laikipia County. But in the past five years, it has been…