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The Price of Victory in the Gaza War: Women, Climate, and Peace

Aug 28, 2024 | Amira Saber

Amira Saber, member of the Egyptian Parliament, looks at the environmental damage caused by the war in Gaza. She underscores the compounding ill effects of…

Meet the ‘Brave Women’ who Cultivate the Riches of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Aug 19, 2024 | Sarah Gillespie

More than 20 years ago, the Sinchi Warmi (‘brave woman’) Indigenous community created a lodge where they could teach visitors about the natural riches of…

Colombia: Women Ex-Combatants Lead Amazon Environmental Restoration

Aug 19, 2024 | Pinnacle Gazette

Women ex-combatants are redefining peace through environmental conservation efforts rooted deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Colombia. Emerging from years of armed conflict, these women…

Reviving Life: Northern Ghana's Sustainable Land Revolution

Aug 16, 2024 | UNCCD

As the sun rises over the dusty plains of northern Ghana, a quiet revolution is underway. In a region long ravaged by desertification and drought,…

Afghanistan: Hydroponic Gardening for Women in Kabul, Nurturing Hope Three Years after the Taliban Comeback

Aug 14, 2024 | AsiaNews

"Green rooms" is one of the latest initiatives by the "She works for peace" association, founded by social entrepreneur Selene Biffi. One of the projects…

The Toll that Wars Take on Women

Jul 31, 2024 | Candice Helfand-Rogers

For women in war-torn regions, suffering, displacement, pain and death are daily prospects, for themselves and their children – whether they’re soldiers or not. And they’re usually…

Intersectional Perspectives on Environmental Peacebuilding

Jul 26, 2024 | Marisa O. Ensor

At a time when the world is witnessing the greatest number of conflicts since World War II, and irrefutable scientific evidence confirms that  humanity has fundamentally and…

Call for Contributions to the Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms

Jul 24, 2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is excited to announce the launch of a process to develop a Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms and to invite contributions…

Why Women Are Key to Managing Afghanistan’s Water Crisis

Jul 22, 2024 | Katrina J. Lane

Afghan women’s livelihoods are the most impacted by water scarcity. Involving them in water policy and resource management could provide sustainable livelihoods and climate resilience…

Women Building Peace Across Diversities: Perspectives from Sri Lanka

Jul 21, 2024 | Júlia E. Moreno

For over a decade, Thilina Madiwala has dedicated herself to unraveling the intricate dynamics of gender and peacebuilding within the context of Sri Lanka. With a focus…

Climate Change, Conflict, and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region

Jul 18, 2024 | Zeina Moneer

The Middle East and North Africa is one of the world’s most gender unequal regions; it will take an estimated 140 years for MENA countries to establish parity…

New Program for Rural Land Transformation Launched in Côte d’Ivoire

Jul 18, 2024 | World Bank Group

The government of Côte d’Ivoire and the World Bank today officially launched the Rural Land Tenure Management Strengthening Program (PRESFOR) in Guiglo in the Cavally…

Uganda/DRC: War Crimes | Uganda Pays $65 Million to DRC for Reparations [Video]

Jul 18, 2024 | SABC News

Uganda has made a partial payment of $65 million US Dollars to the DRC government as reparations for war crimes committed by its troops in…

Indonesia: National Consultant, Women Peace and Security ASEAN Coordinator

Jul 17, 2024 | United Nations Women

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

Guyana: Socio-environmental and Gender Specialist

Jul 17, 2024 | Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Organizational SettingGuyana is one of the nine countries that share the Amazon Forest. The state of the country’s biodiversity is considered, for the most part,…

USA or Remote: Gender Analysis Coordinator - USAID Gender Leadership, Equity, and Advancement for Development (LEAD) Program

Jul 17, 2024 | ECODIT

ECODITECODIT is an international development firm working with governments, businesses, and local communities to advance environmentally- and socially responsible development around the world. ECODIT provide…

Multiple: Restoration Gender & Safeguards Senior Manager

Jul 17, 2024 | Conservation International

Restoration Gender & Safeguards Senior Manager Conservation International protects nature for the benefit of humanity. Through science, policy, fieldwork, and finance, CI spotlights and secures the most important…

Advancing Women, Peace, and Security through Security Cooperation in NATO

Jul 12, 2024 | Courtney Clarksen, Tyler McAnally, and Kathleen McInnis

This series—featuring scholars from the Futures Lab, the International Security Program, and across CSIS—explores emerging challenges and opportunities that NATO is likely to confront after…

Female Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding: Ievgeniia Kopytsia Speaks at British Academy Summer Showcase

Jul 12, 2024 | Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

On Thursday, July 11, 2024, the British Academy hosted its annual Summer Showcase Private View, offering an exclusive preview of their free festival of ideas. Among…

Israel/Palestine: Visualising How Israel Keeps Stealing Palestinian Land

Jul 11, 2024 | Mohammed Haddad, Al Jazeera

On July 2, Israeli authorities announced the largest single seizure in more than 30 years – 12.7sq km (4.9sq miles) in the Jordan Valley.

It was the latest…

Conflict, Land Dispossession, and the Struggle for Gender Equality in Cameroon

Jul 2, 2024 | Dean Peacock

This interview with Lotsmart Fonjong is part of series of interviews by WILPF to reflect on the original research produced by the Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace…

A Roadmap For a Greener, Gender-Inclusive Future

Jul 2, 2024 | Nathalie A. Gabala and Emmanuel Nyirinkindi

Many companies in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) are now prioritizing climate action and advancing gender inclusiveness. However, there are still too few bringing…

In Cameroon, Breaking Barriers for Women in Restoration

Jun 29, 2024 | Monica Evans & Laurianne Mefan

Restoring land and reducing its degradation is crucial for Cameroon’s sustainable development and long-term resilience. Over 70 percent of the population depend on agriculture for…

Women Lead Sustainable Livestock Farming near the Colombian Amazon Rainforest

Jun 28, 2024 | Sean Mattson

Women in Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest biome highly value trees on their small-scale livestock farms. Better integration of farmers' motivations to conserve the environment could support…

UN Action on Gender and Climate Faces Uphill Climb As Warming Hurts Women

Jun 28, 2024 | Daisy Clague

In poor households without taps, the responsibility for collecting water typically falls on women and girls. As climate change makes water scarcer and they have…

Tackling Gender Disparity in Land Ownership in FCT

Jun 27, 2024 | Emmanuel Chisom

Land is one the most valued properties in the world. It is not for nothing that famous economic scholar, Adam Smith, classified it as one of the…

Health Equity and Gender Equality in a More Violent World

Jun 26, 2024 | Valerie Percival

Violence and instability are rising around the world. Researchers recorded 2022 as the "deadliest year since the Rwandan genocide in 1994" and 2023 as experiencing the highest number of…

How to Make Locally Led Climate Adaptation Finance More Gender Responsive

Jun 25, 2024 | Ntezi Mbabazi & Rose Pinnington

Northern donors are making efforts to fund local actors more directly and enable greater local leadership, notably within climate adaptation programming aiming to promote gender equality. And…

How to Advance Peace and Security Through a Climate and Gender Lens? Reflections From Youth at the UN Women’s GEN-Forum 2024

Jun 25, 2024 | Clare Steiner & Khaing Su Lwin

The unfolding triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in the Asia-Pacific region has critical implications for human security, conflict, and inequality. Climate…

South Sudan: South Sudan Revenge Attack Sparked by Cattle Raid Kills 17

Jun 24, 2024 | Reuters

A revenge attack triggered by a cattle raid earlier this month has killed at least 17 people in northern South Sudan and forced oil workers…