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Climate Breakdown 'Is Increasing Violence Against Women'
International
Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability…
Guatemala: Indigenous Women's Agro-Ecology Is Healing Guatemala's Landscape
International
RABINAL, BAJA VERAPAZ, GUATEMALA – The massive, white Catholic Cathedral of Rabinal, commissioned by Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, who arrived in Guatemala's central…
Gender Justice and Women's Leadership in the Climate Justice Movement: A Roundtable Discussion
Event
The California Gender Justice Funders Network is pleased to host an informal roundtable discussion over lunch. We’ll dive into climate change as it relates to gender justice,…
Women, Burdened with Unpaid Labor, Bear Brunt of Global Inequality
Blog
As world leaders and executives descended in their private jets this week on the snow-capped town of Davos, Switzerland, to discuss climate change and inclusive…
Gender and the Environment: What Are the Barriers to Gender Equality in Sustainable Ecosystem Management?
Blog
A gender gap is a gender-based inequality; it is any disparity in treatment or situation between women and men, often rooted in social, cultural and legal norms…
Why We Need Gender Equality in the Fight Against Climate Change
Blog
Climate change affects everyone globally, but its impact worsens in those sections of the population that are most vulnerable. Social, economic, political and historical factors…
Operational Challenges for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in South Sudan
Blog
Experience in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) highlights many of the operational challenges in implementing the UN’s agenda of women, peace and security…
"You Need to Act Now": Meet 4 Girls Working to Save the Warming World
Blog
A teenage girl, Greta Thunberg, has become the world-famous face of the climate strike movement. But she's far from alone: Thunberg has helped rally and inspire…
Gender Activists in a March Dubbed Usawa Demand Action Against GBV, Youth Empowerment, Women Land Rights
Blog
A section of gender rights activists on Friday held a peaceful march in Nairobi to press for gender equality in the country.
The march dubbed Usawa kicked-off at…
A Lukewarm Commitment: India and Gender Equality in Security Affairs
Blog
Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted the landmark Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, India remains one of the many member states that…
Climate Change and Its Unequal Impact on Women
Blog
While some do not want to discuss the cause of Australia’s horrendous bushfires — runaway climate change — even fewer want to talk about how…
African Women Fight Underrepresentation in Climate Research
Blog
As a child, Kenyan meteorologist Saumu Shaka helped out on her parents' small farm growing maize and pigeon pea and learned how the weather can…
The Female Face of Southern Africa's Climate Crisis
Blog
The global climate crisis is not gender neutral. Around the world, women and girls are on the front line of changing weather patterns – disproportionately…
Malawi: Malawi Rights Activists Petition Police over Sexual Harassment
International
Human rights activists have given the Malawi Police Service five days to arrest police officers implicated in the sexual assault of 17 women and girls…
Columbia: Colombian Court Recognises Victims of Sexual Violence Within Ranks of the FARC
International
On the 11th December, the Colombian Constitutional Court ruled that a woman who was forcibly recruited by the FARC at 14 years old is to…
India: One Woman Reports a Rape Every 15 Minutes in India
International
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday,…
Liberia: Liberia Putting 9 Oil Blocks up for Sale amid Concerns over Petroleum Law Breach
International
On January 7th 2020, World Oil published that in April, Liberia will offer nine (9) blocks in a new bid round. The press release stated…
Shifting Conceptions of Gender Justice in EU Policy on Women, Peace, and Security
Library
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security was a landmark resolution passed in 2000 that, for the first time, recognised the…
Women, Internal Displacement and the Boko Haram Conflict: Broadening the Debate
Briefs & Development
Women and children make up 79 per cent of the population displaced by the conflict between the Nigerian government and the armed movement informally known…
Hacia el Buen Vivir con Igualidad de Género y Justicia Ambiental: Análisis de Género de los Objectivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en 5 Países de Latinoamérica
Library
Reconocer, entender, y enfrentar las causas de las brechas de género existentes en las comunidades rurales, forestales, e indígenas motivó a las organizaciones miembros de…
Toward Buen Vivir with Gender Equality and Environmental Justice: Gender Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals in Five Countries in Latin America
Library
Global Forest Coalition (GFC) member organizations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia have conducted gender assessments in the communities that they work in based on…
Gender Perspective in Water Management: The Involvement of Women in Participatory Water Institutions of Eastern India
Briefs & Development
The paper examines the extent, nature, and factors affecting women’s involvement in participatory irrigation institutions of eastern India. Effective participatory water institutions are urgently needed…
Women and Environment - Ecofeminism and Environmental Movements in India
Briefs & Development
A gendered study of this paper demonstrates the relation between women and natural environment, where women is closely related with nature because of their biological…
Toward Gender Sensitivity: Women and Climate Change Policies in China
Briefs & Development
Climate change and environmental protection have become increasingly important in China. The country has formulated and strictly enforced a series of policies to address climate…
Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages: The Violence of Inequality
Library
Rooted in discriminatory gender norms and laws and shrouded in impunity, gender-based violence (GBV) occurs in all societies as a means of control, subjugation and exploitation…
How the Climate Crisis Could Reverse Progress on Gender Equality Around the World
Blog
People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis.…
CFFP Volunteer Lea Börgerding Speaks with Dorothy Nalubega, a Ugandan Minority Rights Activist, Feminist and Environmentalist
Blog
Lea Börgerding (LB): Dorothy, you are a minority rights activist and environmentalist. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your work?
Dorothy…
Women From the Xingu Territory Unite Against Threats from Bolsonaro Administration
Blog
“We don’t think about selling wood or any part of the Earth to get money. We have so many ways to support ourselves that we…
Inaugural Meeting of the AfP Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues
Event
As a community, we as peacebuilders are committed to the values of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We have recognized that DEI is not only…
Status of Women in Afghanistan: Findings From the 2019 Survey of the Afghan People
Event
Underrepresented in the peace process, Afghan women are concerned about potential outcomes and implications of a possible U.S. withdrawal. The 2019 Survey of the Afghan…