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Climate Change and Its Unequal Impact on Women

Jan 15, 2020 | Mary Merkenich

While some do not want to discuss the cause of Australia’s horrendous bushfires — runaway climate change — even fewer want to talk about how…

The Female Face of Southern Africa's Climate Crisis

Jan 14, 2020 | Mark Lowcock and Natalia Kanem

The global climate crisis is not gender neutral. Around the world, women and girls are on the front line of changing weather patterns – disproportionately…

Addressing Water Security Issues in Bangladesh: the Role of Regional Cooperation and Gender

Jan 14, 2020 | Sharmeen Murshid

Bangladesh faces a very vulnerable position in terms of climate change impacts due to its location, and our quality of water is extremely dependent on…

African Women Fight Underrepresentation in Climate Research

Jan 14, 2020 | Busani Bafana

As a child, Kenyan meteorologist Saumu Shaka helped out on her parents' small farm growing maize and pigeon pea and learned how the weather can…

Kyenjojo Women Start Campaign to Conserve Environment

Jan 14, 2020 | Wilson Asiimwe

Women in Kyenjojo district have stepped up efforts to conserve the environment as one way of mitigating the effects of climate change.

The women groups along…

A Greener, Gender-Equitable Decade Ahead

Jan 13, 2020

As we enter 2020, we leave behind a decade of successes and challenges in clean energy and climate action.

Wind and solar energy now represent the…

Kyenjojo Women Start Campaign to Conserve Environment

Jan 13, 2020 | Wilson Asiimwe

The women groups along Matiri Central Forest Reserve have been mobilised by the Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE) and CARE International, with the…

Nigeria: GBV Case Worker Supervisor

Jan 11, 2020 | International Medical Corps

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.…

Jordan: WASH Project Manager

Jan 11, 2020 | INTERSOS

INTERSOS is an Italian humanitarian organization that works all over the world bringing assistance to people in danger, including victims of natural disasters and armed…

Jordan: Women’s Rights Assessment Consultancy

Jan 11, 2020 | Plan International

Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to ensuring children live a life free of poverty, violence and injustice. We actively…

Burkina Faso: Gender Consultant, Victory against Malnutrition Plus Program

Jan 11, 2020 | ACDI/VOCA

For over 50 years in 146 countries, ACDI/VOCA has empowered people in developing and transitional nations to succeed in the global economy. Based in Washington,…

United States: Senior Gender and Agricultural Specialist

Jan 11, 2020 | EnCompass

EnCompass LLC is seeking a Senior Gender and Agriculture Specialist to manage and provide technical assistance to task orders and contracts related to gender equality…

Human Rights Programme Intern

Jan 11, 2020 | Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is looking for an engaged, organised and bright intern for its Human Rights programme.

Would you like…

Afghanistan: Marble Production up by 57% in Maidan Wardak Province

Jan 11, 2020 | Wadsam

Production of marble has increased by 57% in Maidan Wardan province, the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum reports. In an interview with Voice of…

Columbia: Colombian Court Recognises Victims of Sexual Violence Within Ranks of the FARC

Jan 10, 2020 | Julia Zulver and Sanne Weber, Open Democracy

On the 11th December, the Colombian Constitutional Court ruled that a woman who was forcibly recruited by the FARC at 14 years old is to…

Malawi: Malawi Rights Activists Petition Police over Sexual Harassment

Jan 10, 2020 | Lameck Masina, Voice of America

Human rights activists have given the Malawi Police Service five days to arrest police officers implicated in the sexual assault of 17 women and girls…

India: One Woman Reports a Rape Every 15 Minutes in India

Jan 9, 2020 | Sudarshan Varadhan, Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday,…

Liberia: Liberia Putting 9 Oil Blocks up for Sale amid Concerns over Petroleum Law Breach

Jan 9, 2020 | Rodney Sieh, FrontPage Africa

On January 7th 2020, World Oil published that in April, Liberia will offer nine (9) blocks in a new bid round. The press release stated…

Myanmar: Jade and Gem Sales Fetch over Ks 59 Billion

Jan 8, 2020 | Eleven

Myanmar fetched over Ks 59 billion from the sale of 3,500 jade and gem lots at the gem emporium held from January 2 to 7…

Tanzania: Women Crave for More Say Over Land Ownership

Jan 8, 2020 | Tanzania Daily News

Struggling over land rights among women in Tanzania and Africa in general, has remained as one of the social challenges despite efforts by relevant authorities…

Vietnam: Strengthening Women’s Livelihoods and Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change in Viet Nam

Jan 8, 2020 | Thao Hoang, UN Women

When Tran Thi My Linh, a 51-year-old rural woman first said that she would replace her rice fields with lotus fields, she raised many eyebrows.…

Realizing Dreams Through the Power of Land Rights

Jan 6, 2020 | My-Lan Dodd

In India, a widow named Sonamoti lacks the resources to feed her only son because she was deprived her share of family land. She wishes…

How the Climate Crisis Could Reverse Progress on Gender Equality Around the World

Jan 1, 2020 | Mark Leon Goldberg

People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis.…

Colombia: Plan to Protect Land around AngloGold Ashanti’s Copper Project in Colombia Fails

Dec 30, 2019 | Valentina Ruiz Leotaud, Mining.com

The mayor of the Jericó municipality in Colombia’s Antioquia department said on Monday that his office’s proposal to modify the Territorial Planning Structure to protect…

Spain: How Climate Finance and Technology Could Better Integrate Women

Dec 30, 2019 | Julie Mollins, Forest News

Amid frustrated negotiations around Article 6 guidance on emissions counting and carbon markets, U.N. COP25 climate talks delivered a decision on a five-year enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender. The…

South Sudan: South Sudan Oil Spill Causes Environmental Damage, Health Problems

Dec 27, 2019 | Dimo Silva Aurelio, Voice of America

Two months after a pipeline ruptured and spilled crude oil over a wide swath of South Sudan's former Unity State, residents and government officials are…

Liberia: Southeast Women’s Land Rights Group Formed

Dec 27, 2019 | Observer

A group whose goal is to protect and promote the rights of women in Southeastern Liberia was formed recently at a regional women’s conference held…

Iran/Iraq/Syria: Iran Militias Revive Islamic State Oil Trade into Syria from Iraq: Sources

Dec 24, 2019 | Herman Wang and Brian Scheid, S&P Global Platts

Iranian proxy militias are thought to be smuggling crude oil from western Iraq to Syria, picking up a lucrative business left behind by the Islamic…

Liberia: NaFAA Establishes Women in Maritime Liberia Chapter

Dec 24, 2019 | FrontPage Africa

Liberia has joined others countries in Africa in the establishment of a chapter of Women in Maritime in Africa (WIMAFRICA) in partnership with the International…

Afghanistan: For Women in Kabul, ‘It Is Just Me and the Water’

Dec 22, 2019 | Fatima Faizi and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times

Though the city has become markedly more politically progressive in the nearly two decades it has been governed by a Western-backed democracy, Kabul is still…