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Women Deliver 2019 Conference
Event
The Women Deliver 2019 Conference will be the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women in…
Creating a Gender Equal World: the Transformative Power of Women's Rights to Land
Event
Cocktail reception where guests will learn how to break down the barriers to gender-equal land rights, about a new global advocacy campaign to ensure women…
South Asia Needs to Adopt a Gender Mainstreaming Approach in Climate Policy
Blog
The disproportionate impacts of environmental and climate change on women are being studied and documented worldwide. However, when it comes to addressing the gender gap…
Women's Land Rights: Shifting Power for Gender Equality
Blog
Achieving gender equality requires a fundamental shift in the balance of power over resources. Globally, from urban financial centers to remote communities, from international bodies…
Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses and Feminist Politics
Event
The NORA conference 2019, on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities relying on contemporary and/or historical perspectives, focuses on the theme of material and symbolic…
Challenges for Female Peacekeepers Can Come from within UN Militaries
Blog
On 6 March 2019, Arizona Senator Martha McSally gave testimony at an armed services committee hearing that she had been raped by a senior officer while…
Growing Authoritarianism, Social Inequalities Often a Prelude to Conflict
Blog
I want to talk about peacebuilding and inclusive peace. My main point is that peace begins in the minds of people, and people, communities, societies…
Lebanon: Protection & Gender Coordinator
Job
The Near East Foundation, formerly the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, then the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, and later…
Local Solutions to Strenghten Women's Voices in Land Governance
Blog
With increasing pressure on land in sub-Saharan Africa, including from commercial agriculture and mineral and oil extraction, how can the voices of women be included…
The Case for Gender Approaches to Urban Resilience-Experience from Coyuca
Blog
Coyuca de Benitez on Mexico’s Pacific coast has suffered repeated tropical storms and tidal surges in the past decade. The city, sited on the edge…
The Nexus Between Gender Equality and Climate Change
Blog
Over the past four years, we have had the highest temperatures in human history, almost 1°C higher than at the beginning of the industrial revolution.…
Women Land Defenders Face "Extreme Criminalisation," Added Risks
Blog
Since her teen years, Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, now 39, has defended the natural resources of El Estor, a predominantly Mayan Q'eqchi' community on the…
Breaking from Tradition, Indigenous Women Lead Fight for Land Rights in Brazil
Blog
Brazil’s indigenous women have been overturning tradition to step into the spotlight and lead an international push to defend their tribal land rights, which are…
Afghanistan: Afghan Women Demand Seat at Peace Talks but Face Resistance
International
HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — For four hours, Khadeja begged her in-laws to take her to the hospital. The skin on her face and neck was…
Climate Change: Militaries Go Green, Rethink Operations in Face of Climate Change
International
Highly efficient air conditioners, LED lights and power meters will be used alongside weapons of war at an upcoming NATO exercise. Military officials from 29…
Articulating, Strengthening and Building Solidarity - Women's Resistance to Mining
Blog
“Our grandparents told them to provide good roads, (electrical) power and hospitals.
But they didn’t meet any of these expectations.
Here there is no power.
Development… we don’t…
How Much Land Does a Women Need? Women, Land Rights, and Rural Development
Event
For more information and to register, please visit https://genderandsecurity.org/projects-resources/consortium-lectures/how-much-land-does-woman-need-women-land-rights-and-rural.
Where: University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA
When: 18 April 2019
Organizers: Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, University of Massachusetts…
United States: Democrat: Murdered Women 'An Environmental Injustice'
International
The "silent crisis" of missing and murdered indigenous women is an environmental issue affected by the boom and bust of oil and gas development in…
Sudan/South Sudan: South Sudan, Sudan to Keep Oil Flowing, Industry Is the “Glue That Binds” Two Nations
International
South Sudan exports all produced crude oil via pipeline from Hegleig and Paloch to Khartoum and then to Port Sudan for export. Since a landmark…
Why Women Led the Uprising in Sudan
Blog
The protests that led to the ouster of Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, have been dominated by women. Day after day on the streets of Khartoum,…
Empowering Women By Balancing The Law
Event
Empowering Women by Balancing the Law is an initiative that seeks to provide analytical and technical know-how to pilot countries in assessing and reforming laws…
Gender Equality? Add Water
Blog
Imagine having to wait all day to defecate in the dark, just to get the tiniest semblance of privacy—and then getting raped because you went…
South Sudan, Where a Water Crisis Is Leading to Child Kidnappings and Rape
Blog
For a split second it looked like the young South Sudanese woman and her baby, swaddled in a cloth-carrier on her back, were taking a…
Myanmar: Gender and Protection Coordinator
Job
The World Service is the internationally recognized humanitarian and development arm of the Lutheran World Federation, assisting people in need irrespective of their ethnicity, religion…
'Balance For Better' Does Little to Address Issues Facing Women
Blog
International Women’s Day had radical roots: at the turn of the 20th century, thousands of women came together to protest dismal working conditions, long hours, and…
Women Are 'on the Front Lines' of Defending Land
Blog
When gold miners operating illegally near her farm in southern Colombia fouled the stream where she watered her cows, Mary Alis Ramírez tried to have…
Why Research on Gender and Conflict Matters
Blog
Last October, Ethiopia appointed its first woman president, the only female leader of an African state today. In many national parliaments, from Mexico to Rwanda,…
Guatemala: Women Land Defenders Face 'Extreme Criminalisation', Added Risks
International
El Estor, Guatemala - Since her teen years, Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, now 39, has defended the natural resources of El Estor, a predominantly Mayan…
Iraq: Iraq State Company Denies Shiite Militia Smuggling Mosul Oil
International
Iraq’s North Oil Company (NOC) denied on Sunday that Shiite militia groups were smuggling oil from Nineveh to Syria and Iran, saying that the company…
UNDP Strategy Highlights How Gender Equality Can Drive SDG Progress
International
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released its third gender equality strategy, covering the years 2018-2021. The Strategy provides a road map for elevating and…