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Climate Change Worsens Gender-Based Violence: Here’s How the WPS Agenda Can Help

Dec 8, 2022 | Jenaina Irani

Climate change is a growing threat to progress, peace, security, and human rights. The negative impacts of climate change often have gendered impacts and are…

Webinar Promotes Women’s Leadership in Chemicals, Waste Management in SIDS

Dec 8, 2022 | IISD

The Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in SIDS (ISLANDS) Programme hosted a webinar on women’s leadership in chemicals and waste management in…

Conflict Minerals: Industry Shows Zero Improvement on Conflict Minerals Sourcing

Dec 8, 2022 | Brendan Sinclair, GamesIndustry.biz

In the early days of conflict minerals reporting, it was in many cases impossible to tell how much of a company's supply chain was conformant…

Why We Need More Women at COPs

Dec 6, 2022 | Hellen Shikanda

Two women steered the historic negotiations that led to a funding mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for Loss and…

CARE’s COP27 Response: One Step Forward, but Many More Needed

Dec 6, 2022 | Marlene Achoki, CARE

We are disappointed to say that while COP27 made some progress recognizing the importance of gender justice, attendees ultimately took no collective action. Two weeks of…

ASEAN Launches Plan to Promote Women’s Security in Southeast Asia

Dec 5, 2022 | UN Women

Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Today, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and UN Women, launched…

Indigenous Women in STEM Are in a Unique Position to Stop Climate Change

Dec 5, 2022 | Leticia Tituana

In Kichwa, an indigenous language spoken in parts of Ecuador, Pachamama (“Mother Earth”) is a unique word that represents the harmonious bond between nature and the indigenous…

DRC: Glencore Agrees to Pay Congo $180 Million over Bribery Case

Dec 5, 2022 | Associated Press

Commodities company Glencore said Monday that it has reached an agreement with the Democratic Republic of Congo to pay $180 million over bribery allegations spanning…

Building African Climate Resilience Through Women's Entrepreneurship

Nov 30, 2022 | Amy Fallah

Westerwelle Foundation’s SHEignites Greenpreneur Program is one of five projects in Sub-Saharan Africa that has received funding through ANDE’s Accelerating Women Climate Entrepreneurs (AWCE) Fund to address…

Fishing for Equity and Inclusion: Women’s Socioeconomic Factors in Kenyan Fisheries

Nov 29, 2022 | Margaret Gatonye

Seeing Loreta sort and dry her Omena sardines at the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, one may dismiss this small, middle-aged woman as…

Green Jobs for Women Can Combat the Climate Crisis and Boost Equality

Nov 29, 2022 | Franziska Deinninger and Ana Gren

Delegates returned home from COP27 with long to-do lists and a formidable challenge: how to accelerate development that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels and creates…

Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Increases Landmine Use

Nov 22, 2022 | Mizzima

Use of landmines by the Myanmar junta has surged since the 2021 coup according to the Landmine Monitor Report 2022, released last week.

Kenya: UN’s Highest Environmental Honour Celebrates Ecosystem Restoration

Nov 22, 2022 | UNEP

Nairobi, 22 November 2022 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced its 2022 Champions of the Earth, honouring a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s…

Liberia: Call to Strengthen Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land

Nov 21, 2022 | New Dawn

In commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines for responsible Governance of land tenure (VGGT), Liberia has held a National Dialogue as participants…

The 46th NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives Focuses on Hybrid Threats, Disinformation and Human Security

Nov 21, 2022 | NATO

From 3rd to 5th October 2022, approximately 170 participants from 42 NATO Allies and Partners as well as academic organisations and civil society gathered for…

Iraq: Supporting Local Dialogue to Address Climate Security Risks in Iraq

Nov 18, 2022 | Robert Bosch Stiftung

While the impacts of climate change manifest differently in Iraq, Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change worldwide (UNEP). Combined with long-standing…

Women Underrepresented at COP27 Summit

Nov 18, 2022 | Caroline Kapp

Advocates have expressed concern that women are underrepresented at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference—or COP27—in Egypt this month. In 2011, countries pledged to increase…

Leaders and Activists at COP27 Say the Gender Gap in Climate Action is Being Bridged Too Slowly

Nov 18, 2022 | Zoha Tunio, Inside Climate News

Research increasingly shows that global warming impacts women far more gravely than men, but they are still left out of the leadership and benefits of…

Natural resources and the prospects for gender-just sustainable peace

Nov 17, 2022 | Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson

To build peace that is gender-just and sustainable, we need to start with two questions: What are the conditions of people’s lives at the end…

Myanmar: Myanmar Communities Decry Disempowerment as Forest Guardians Since 2021 Coup

Nov 17, 2022 | Carolyn Cowan, Mongabay

Strides have been made in forest protection over the past decade, but violent conflict, shrinking civic space and “rampant” natural resource extraction in the wake…

Tailoring Inclusive Solutions to Climate Finance: The Role of Individual and Collective Inclusion

Nov 17, 2022 | Manuel Bueno and Stephanie Landers Silva

Climate finance can and should be more inclusive of marginalized and underserved groups, including women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, low-income people, and people in remote areas.…

Liberia: Promoting Women's Rights and Land Ownership in Liberia

Nov 17, 2022 | UNSDG

“In the past, women never owned land here but today, women, men, and youth can sit together with the elders and decide issues on land…

At COP27 and Beyond, Women's Voices Belong at the Heart of Climate Change Negotiations

Nov 16, 2022 | Marisa O. Ensor

The United Nations Conferences of the Parties (COPs) are the largest climate-related conferences worldwide. During these meetings, nations have negotiated groundbreaking and legally binding climate…

Afghanistan: Coalmining in Afghanistan – in Pictures [Photos]

Nov 16, 2022 | Oliver Weiken, Guardian

From men in their 60s to boys as young as 10, hundreds of miners work every day in Chinarak for just a few euros.

COP27: Lack of Women at Negotiations Raises Concern

Nov 16, 2022 | Esme Stallard, BBC

Too few women are participating in COP27 climate negotiations, charities, activists and politicians have warned.

Helping Asia-Pacific Women to Overcome Climate Disasters

Nov 14, 2022 | Sarah Knibbs, Dechen Tsering and Annamaria Oltorp

The disastrous floods in Pakistan have proven, yet again, that our climate crisis disproportionately hurts women. Of the 33 million people affected, nearly 70 per…

Liberia: Liberian Senate Raises Concerns over Mining Sector amid Widespread Illicit Activities

Nov 14, 2022 | Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa

The Liberian Senate is seeking information from the Ministry of Mines and Energy regarding the operation of the small to medium-scale mining sub-sector. This is…

Afghanistan: Women Human Rights Defenders Arrested by the Taliban Must Be Immediately Released

Nov 14, 2022 | Amnesty International

Responding to the arrests of at least three prominent women human rights defenders Zarifa Yaqoobi, Farhat Popalzai and Humaira Yusuf and their colleagues by the…

My Land: Rural Women's Struggle

Nov 14, 2022 | Carlos Parra

As the strains of a typical Colombian vallenato play in the background, Yimis Severiche Montes holds up the title deed from the National Land Agency…

The United States: USAID Advances Global Climate Action and Gender Equality

Nov 14, 2022 | USAID

At COP27, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a suite of programs to advance gender-responsive climate action.