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Women and Sustainable Development Goals
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On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the agreed framework for international development. It is…
Institutionalising Women, Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands: Gendering the ‘Architecture of Entitlements’?
Briefs & Development
Efforts to adopt provisions of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda in local policy contexts are often hailed enthusiastically by gender advocates as…
Artisanal Mining, Conflict, and Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC
Briefs & Development
The natural resource abundance of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has featured in policy debates as the prime example of ‘conflict minerals’ driving…
International Symposium on Water Diplomacy: An Overview
Briefs & Development
In recent years, diplomacy has evolved to be more inclusive, open and transparent, involving more diverse actors than the traditional diplomats, in order to better…
Women’s Economic Participation in Conflict-Affected and Fragile Settings
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The inability to put women entrepreneurs at the center of post-conflict reconstruction is one of development’s greatest failures. Addressing this issue requires more than gender…
Gender Equality Is Central to Effective Climate Action
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As the nations of the world meet in Paris to address climate change, it is critical that women play a central role in these historic…
Getting to the Root of Gender Equal Land Governance
Blog
While there is international agreement that we need gender equality in land ownership – achieving this in practice is more complex.
Women face a number of…
Liberia: Women Petition Senate to Pass Land Rights Bill
International
A group of women under the banner of the Women NGO Network Tuesday converged on the Capitol Building to petition the Liberian Senate to speedily…
Governance, Gender and no Guarantees in Africa’s Oil-Rich States
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The discovery of oil in Chad in 1969 did not yield many immediate benefits for a population that would soon be wracked by civil war,…
Does Gender Balance Improve Forestry and Fishery Management?
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Differences in women's and men's access to, control over, and use of local natural resources shapes the way that these resources are managed. Yet women…
Challenges After Conflict: Regional Consultation on Resolution 1325
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Resolution 1325 is not just a tool which can be used to protect women and sustain peace. It is also a testament to strong women…
Empowered Women = Happy Planet? Gender Equality in a Changing Environment
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Gender and women's empowerment are getting increasing attention in global discussions on climate change, sustainable development and the green economy. The international community is recognising…
Protecting & Empowering Women & Girls in Situations of Crisis & Conflict
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Since the mid-1990s, there have been significant increases in the recorded number of all disasters and in deaths resulting from those disasters, especially in low-income…
'Outside the Net': Women's Participation in Fishing Activities in Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka
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‘The woman left us slowly and moved to the other side of the beach seine, sat down on the sand and started piling the seaweed…
UN Report Highlights Women’s Roles in Natural Resource Management During and After Conflict
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It’s been 14 years since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 acknowledging women as important agents of change in recovery from conflict and peacebuilding…
Women, Human-Wildlife Conflict, and CBNRM: Hidden Impacts and Vulnerabilities in Kwanfu Conservancy, Namibia
Briefs & Development
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes are designed to ensure that rural residents benefit from conservation initiatives. But where human-wildlife conflict threatens life and livelihood,…
Climate Change Adaptation and Population Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Briefs & Development
Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple risks from a changing climate, from sea level rise to glacial melt to extreme weather and disease. Recent…
Reinvigorating Resilience: Violence Against Women, Land Rights, and the Women's Peace Movement in Myanmar
Briefs & Development
In Myanmar, movements for gender justice strive to foster personal and collective security, vibrant livelihoods, and political engagement during a period of rapid and uncertain…
Preventing Conflict: The Origins of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (Chapter in "Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325"
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Throughout history women peace activists from all over the world have united to try and put an end to war. Their call for a commitment…
Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
Briefs & Development
To mark the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council adopted resolution 2122 (2013) inviting the Secretary-General to conduct a…
UN Security Council Resolution 2242 (2015)
Briefs & Development
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960…
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: General Recommendation No. 33 on Women’s Access to Justice
Briefs & Development
The right to access to justice for women is essential to the realization of all the rights protected under the Convention on the Elimination of…
Women and Climate Change: Linking Ground Perspectives to the Global Scenario
Briefs & Development
The 18th Conference of Parties (COP-18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Doha in 2012 decided to enhance the participation…
Social Capital, Conflict, and Adaptive Collaborative Governance: Exploring the Dialectic
Briefs & Development
Previously lineal and centralized natural resource management and development paradigms have shifted toward the recognition of complexity and dynamism of social-ecological systems, and toward more…
Land Tenure in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges, Opportunities and Way Forward
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This Publication presents the readings of a review of land tenure security issues in fifteen (15) selected countries across Asia and the Paci c region.…
Gender-Sensitivity in Natural Resource Management in Cote d'Ivoire and Sudan
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Over the past decade, a wide body of scholarship has emerged on the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources. As this research unequivocally demonstrates,…
Women's Land Rights and Africa's Development Conundrum- Which Way Forward?
Blog
How can African countries use land policies to ensure agricultural development and inclusive growth? Particularly in countries which are dominated by patriarchal land ownership systems?…
Alina Saba of Nepal and Agnes Kinaka of Papua New Guinea Reflect on Their Participation in the UN Climate Summit
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In addition to the 120 Heads of State who attended the UN Climate Summit in September, 38 civil society representatives were selected by their peers…
Can Women Make the World More Peaceful?
International
Do women hold the key to a peaceful society? Much is known about the victimisation of women through rape, trafficking, and early marriages, but much…
Conflict Minerals: How to Make the Most of Africa’s Business Boom
International
Following the close of this week's unprecedented U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the business community's eyes are trained on Africa. Perhaps not since colonization has the West…