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Afghanistan: More Foreign Firms Offer to Invest in Afghanistan Mining Sector [Video]

May 5, 2022 | Ariana News

More foreign firms offer to invest in Afghanistan mining sector.

Ukraine: Reports Reveal Women Are Stepping Up, Impact on Education

May 4, 2022 | UN News

The war in Ukraine is having a disproportionate impact on women and minorities, who are facing immense hardship when it comes to health, safety, and…

Myanmar: In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar

May 3, 2022 | Emily Fishbein, Jaw Tu Hkawng, Nu Nu Lusan, and Jauman Naw, Yale Environment 360

With a military junta retaking power last year, a gold rush is increasingly despoiling rivers in the Myanmar state of Kachin, polluting water with mercury,…

Afghanistan: Nearly 400 Jawzjan Women Self-Reliant in Mushroom Farming

May 2, 2022 | Baran

A number of women in northern Jawzjan province, who have become self-reliant in cultivation of mushrooms, have called on the government to train them.

Afghanistan: Mes Aynak Contract Must Be Reviewed, Work Begun: Prime Minister

Apr 26, 2022 | Amina Hakimi, TOLOnews

Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the Islamic Emirate, at a cabinet meeting ordered the Economic Commission to remove the obstacles for work…

Open Online Course on Gender and Environment

Apr 25, 2022 | UN CC: Learn

Do you want to find out why promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment can help deliver better environmental outcomes, and to figure out how you…

Environmental Peacebuilding Association and SAGE Publishing Announce New Journal "Environment and Security"

Apr 22, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and SAGE Publishing

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and SAGE Publishing are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated…

Liberia: Women's Land Rights Awareness Campaign Bears Fruits

Apr 19, 2022

Adah Johnson,* 56, from Flumpa, Nimba County in north-eastern Liberia is a beneficiary of the continued awareness sessions on the rights of women to land…

Afghanistan: Strawberry Fields Could Supplant Afghanistan's Poppies, Forever

Apr 18, 2022 | Xinhua

Afghanistan's Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul provinces have always been close to the heart of the world's opium, and later heroin, trade. Poppy cultivation has been…

Egypt: International Expert – Mainstreaming Gender-Responsive Climate Change and Environmental Work

Apr 16, 2022 | UN Women

In support of Egypt’s Vision 2030 and its National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women, under the emerging UN cooperation framework for Egypt, UN…

Uganda: Terms of Reference for a Consultancy to Undertake a Gender Assessment and Develop a Gender Action Plan as Part of the Development of a Green Climate Fund Proposal

Apr 16, 2022 | International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It…

Thailand: Research Fellow, Gender, Social Equity, Justice and Climate Financing

Apr 16, 2022 | Stockholm Environment Institute

SEI is an independent international research institute founded in 1989. Its mission is to support decision-making and induce change towards sustainable development around the world…

Ukraine: Gender and GBV Technical Adviser

Apr 16, 2022 | Save the Children

To support Ukraine CO to adhere to gender and GBV international standards and best practices, to ensure women and girls have equal access to, benefit…

Asia Pacific: Regional Research on Girls’ Activism and Leadership for Climate Justice

Apr 16, 2022 | Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. As an independent development and humanitarian organisation, we…

Climate Policies Must Allow Women to Control their Bodies and their Fates

Apr 14, 2022 | Zainab Yunusa

Links between women’s sexual and reproductive health and the impacts of climate change are made clear in the recent Working Group II report from the UN Intergovernmental…

#BringBackOurGirls: Ecofeminism, Climate, and Conflict

Apr 14, 2022 | Adenike Oladosu

On the night of April 14, 2014, a group of militants attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. They kidnapped 276 female students,…

Somalia: UN Women Somalia, in Partnership with the Federal Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development and Ministries of Women Launch Two Research Studies

Apr 12, 2022

UN Women Somalia, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry for Women and Human Rights Development (MoWHRD) and the Ministries of Women, Jubaland and the South West State, launched two research studies focusing on gender, climate and conflict, and market assessments of micro-enterprise opportunities at…

Colombia: A Seed Bank in Colombia Is Helping to Climate-Proof Food Systems

Apr 12, 2022 | Clarisa Diaz, Quartz

As extreme weather and drought affect agriculture all over the world, securing both food systems and farmers’ livelihoods is becoming increasingly vital. The Future Seeds…

Converging Risks: Demographic Trends, Gender Inequity, and Security Challenges in the Sahel

Apr 4, 2022

Security conditions in the Sahel are rapidly deteriorating. Since 2016, the region has witnessed a 16-fold increase in terrorist attacks. In Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania,…

A Closer Look at the Intersection of Gender and Security

Mar 31, 2022 | Deseri Tsepetis

While there has been progress in advancing civil rights and visibility for women and transgender folks, there is a long way to go to build…

The Key to Climate Action and Sustainable Peace? Women’s Full and Equal Participation

Mar 31, 2022

Climate change is not gender neutral, and for activist Fatima Muriel, this fact is all too real for thousands of women in her home country, Colombia. 

In…

Feminist Courage for Environmental Peace

Mar 30, 2022 | Ilse Wermink, Christina Vetter, and Brittany Roser

Women, girls, and gender minorities are uniquely and disproportionately affected by the damaging environmental impacts of conflict, while lacking and demanding access to shape the…

Colombia: Colombia Cocoa’s Peaceful Transition to Global Prominence

Mar 30, 2022 | Anthony Myers, ConfectionaryNews

ConfectioneryNews talked to Jose Puyana, ProColombia's Regional Director for Europe, ahead of a Trade Mission to the UK (31 March to 3 April) to attend…

Liberia: Actors Want Women’s Rights Mainstreamed in Agriculture, Land Sectors

Mar 26, 2022 | Varney Karmara

Stakeholders have agreed to mainstream gender equity and inclusion across the agriculture, land, and forestry sectors in Liberia.

The enforcement of gender policies across these sectors…

Climate Change/Ukraine/Russia: Russia’s War on Ukraine Upends Arctic Climate-Change Research

Mar 26, 2022 | Nidhi Subbaraman, Wall Street Journal

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has delayed or derailed international collaborations studying climate change in the Arctic, with many Western scientists and scientific organizations cutting ties…

Informal Spouses and Other “Invisible" Women: The Dark Underbelly of Land Rights Formalization

Mar 23, 2022 | Dr. Anne Hennings

As every year, the month of March has been packed with content and events around the globe related to women's land rights. The Land Portal…

Is the World Making Enough Progress on Addressing Gender Equality Within Climate Action?

Mar 23, 2022 | Verania Chao

We can only transition to zero-carbon and climate resilient development to the extent that we transform our societies. One of the areas in which this…

Is Climate Change a Gender Issue? Impact of Climate Change on Women and Children

Mar 18, 2022 | Azera Parveen Rahman

As the number of vagaries of climate extremes increases, so has the disproportionate burden on women and children, finds growing evidence. Policies, however, are yet…

Putting Women at the Centre of Forest Solutions to Climate Change

Mar 18, 2022 | Alexis Arthur and Elizabeth Eggerts

The role of gender equality in climate mitigation activities is critical to address both the climate crisis and support ‘gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’…

Why More Women Should Lead Food Security and Climate Change Projects

Mar 15, 2022 | Janine Peralta