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Ukraine: Protection Specialist - Gender Based Violence Specialist

Mar 6, 2023 | Danish Refugee Council

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all…

Uganda: Programme Specialist: Women, Peace and Security

Mar 6, 2023 | United Nations Women

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

Moldova: UN Women National Consultant with technical expertise on economic issues to support the informal Women´s Advisory Board (WAB) on Sustainable Peacebuilding

Mar 6, 2023 | United Nations Women

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

Moldova: UN Women National Consultant with technical expertise on social issues to support the informal Women´s Advisory Board (WAB) on Sustainable Peacebuilding

Mar 6, 2023 | United Nations Women

Background 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…

Iraq: No Water by 2040: The Crisis Engulfing Iraq and Its Historic River Flow

Mar 6, 2023 | Zainab Hussain, The BMJ

The Middle East’s ancient Tigris-Euphrates river system flow is under threat, bringing a plethora of health emergencies to Iraq.

Kirabati: Individual Consultant – To support Women’s Resilience to Disasters Programme implementation, UN Women Kiribati Office

Mar 6, 2023 | United Nations Women

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

Niger/Nigeria: Peace and Conflict Assessment (PCA) with focus on Resilience and Gender for Niger (Diffa) and Nigeria (Borno and Yobe State)

Mar 6, 2023 | Christian Blind Mission

Background and rationaleCBM is a Christian international development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest communities of…

International Women's Day: Environmental Change and Gender

Mar 3, 2023 | IUCN

Climate change is often defined as a “threat multiplier.” For many women and girls around the world, it is also enacting, and at times creating,…

Pakistan: Women to Lead Actions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Mar 3, 2023 | IUCN

Pakistan is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with extreme weather events affecting millions of people each year. To address this, the government…

Peace and Water: GOWP Brief Calls for Urgent Rethinking of Approach to Water Management

Mar 2, 2023 | The Water Diplomat

The Global Observatory for Water and Peace (GOWP) has released a brief ahead of the upcoming United Nations Mid-Term Review Conference in March 2023, highlighting…

Separate or Relational and Truly Rational? A Few Notes on Gender, Nature, and Modernity’s Patriarchal Heritage

Mar 1, 2023 | Jan-Olav Henriksen

Everything that lives is constituted by relationships with everything else. Accordingly, it is of profound importance if we understand ourselves as conditioned by, dependent on,…

Who Is Conservation? Removing Barriers for Women Working in the Environmental Field Will Only Make Conservation as a Whole More Effective.

Feb 24, 2023 | Robyn James

More women are studying and working in conservation than ever before. Robyn James, TNC’s director of gender and equity in the Asia-Pacific Region, examines how institutional…

Three Projects in South Asia Putting Gender at the Centre of Responses to Climate Change

Feb 21, 2023 | Rina Saeed Khan, The Third Pole

From who is most affected to who gets to be in the room when decisions are made, gender affects every aspect of our relationship with…

Climate Change: New Climate Change Model Finds Nuanced Relationship between Temperature, Conflict

Feb 20, 2023 | Phil Ciciora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A new framework for studying the intersection of climate anomalies and social conflicts finds a strong link between temperature fluctuations and aggregated global conflicts, in…

Water, Climate, and Peacebuilding through a Gender Lens

Feb 16, 2023 | Marisa O. Ensor

Climate change is affecting water access for people around the world, causing more severe droughts, floods, and unpredictable weather patterns. Rising water insecurity endangers livelihoods and the…

USA: Senior Fellow: Gender, Climate, Security Nexus

Feb 16, 2023 | Georgetown University

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Researcher to lead its climate research portfolio. The Senior…

Women's Contributions to Solving the Climate Crisis

Feb 15, 2023 | Rebecca Goldfine

The Environmental Studies Program partnered with The Nature Conservancy in Maine to bring together a panel of women who are working at the intersection of…

Women Climate Crusaders Step Up to Make Climate Action Inclusive

Feb 15, 2023 | Manka Behl

Nagpur: Nineteen-year-old Hina Saifi from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, is working at the grass roots level to empower women with eco-friendly resources and improve air quality.…

Cuban Women Play Outstanding Role in Facing Climate Change

Feb 15, 2023 | Juan M. Garcia

Women's outstanding role in fighting climate change was appreciated on Sunday in the development of the Increasing Resilience of Agricultural Ecosystems in Cuba (IRES) project…

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Looking at Indian Women in Climate Science and Research

Feb 15, 2023 | Tamanna Sengupta

While the Indian government is attempting to encourage more women scientists through awards and growth schemes, true success requires systemic change and mindset shifts.

Meet 5 Women Who Are Using Science to Help Save the Planet

Feb 10, 2023 | UNEP

International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated on 11 February, recognizes the often overlooked contributions of women scientists.

India: Senior Project Associate- Gender and Social Inclusion, Climate Program

Feb 10, 2023 | World Resources Institute

WRI India, an independent charity legally registered as the India Resources Trust, provides objective information and practical proposals to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable…

Timor-Leste: Social Safeguarding, Gender and Inclusion Officer

Feb 10, 2023 | United Nations Development Programme

Background 

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are…

Thailand: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Specialist

Feb 10, 2023 | Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific…

“Environment, Conflict, Media” Conference Held in Sarajevo

Feb 9, 2023 | Sarajevo Times

The conference entitled “Environment, Conflict, Media”, dedicated to issues of environmental protection and reporting on climate change, was organized yesterday in Sarajevo. It is the…

Ethiopia: Livelihoods Specialist (Team Leader) - Ethiopia Highlands Resilience Activity

Feb 9, 2023 | Mercy Corps

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, it knows its teams do their best…

Thailand: Climate Change and Green Jobs Technical Advisor

Feb 9, 2023 | Save the Children

The Climate Change and Green Jobs Technical Advisor provides strategic technical leadership to Thailand Country office in positioning, preparing and implementing portfolio of programmes related…

Colombia: Indigenous Women Record Age-Old Knowledge of Bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Feb 8, 2023 | Astrid Arellano, Mongabay

A team of Indigenous Yucuna women in the Colombian Amazon are rescuing and documenting the remaining oral knowledge on bees and their roles in the…

Gender and Climate Change

Feb 8, 2023 | Vera Tripodi, E-International Relations

In this chapter, I focus on the negative consequences of climate change for women’s rights. This chapter is divided into two parts. In the first…

The UAE and Israel Have a History of Strong Female Leadership. Women Must Take Substantial Roles in the Next Phase of the Abraham Accords.

Feb 7, 2023 | Marcy Grossman, Atlantic Council

It has been more than two years since the Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan.…