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Can Improving Women's Representation in Environmental Governance Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Blog
The Paris Agreement’s clause to include more women in the environmental decision-making process set a historical precedent. The preamble urges parties to acknowledge that climate…
APWLD Member Zoom-in: Alma Sinumlag
Blog
The cold bites in New York. That’s what Alma Sinumlag felt when she visited the Big Apple for the first time ever in 2018. Having…
Gender Roles in Peace and Security
Briefs & Development
The disastrous consequences for the rights and physical and psychological protection of women during the wars of the 1990s, primarily in Somalia, Rwanda and Ex-Yugoslavia,…
Gender and Defence Sector Reform: Problematising the Place of Women in Conflict-Affected Environments
Briefs & Development
While gender-responsive Security Sector Reform (SSR) is increasingly recognised as being key to successful SSR programmes, women continue to be marginalised in post-conflict SSR programmes,…
Impacts of Climate Change Induced Migration on Gender: A Qualitative Study from the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh
Briefs & Development
The aim of this study is to explore the gender variation of the impact of climate change induced migration. This paper highlights the gender dimensions…
Conflict, Peace, and the Evolution of Women's Empowerment
Briefs & Development
How do periods of conflict and peace shape women's empowerment around the world? While existing studies have demonstrated that gender inequalities contribute to the propensity…
Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment
Briefs & Development
Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) has increasingly gained traction among state, business and civil society actors since the endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles…
Governance, Gender and the Appropriation of Natural Resources: A Case Study of ‘Left-Behind’ Women’s Collective Action in China
Library
China’s rapid urbanization has created large scale of population migration, resulting in many villages being dominated by “left-behind” women, and weak governance of those collectively…
Energy, Gender, and GBV in Emergencies: State of Principles, Knowledge, and Practice
Briefs & Development
The Women's Refugee Commission and Mercy Corps’ Energy in Emergencies: Reducing Risks of Gender-based Violence (EEMRG) project, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau…
A Constructive Leadership Approach of Poor Tribal Women, Towards Equitable and Gender just Relations around Common Land
Briefs & Development
This paper highlights struggle of poor tribal women towards protection and conservation of village common lands i.e. forestland, village pastures and reservoirs. These studies capture…
Women Peace and Security Report of the Secretary-General
Library
The present report is submitted pursuant to the presidential statement dated 26 October 2010 (S/PRST/2010/22), in which the Security Council requested annual reports on the…
Gender, Cash Assistance, and Conflict: Gendered Protection Implications of Cash and Voucher Assistance in Somalia/Somaliland
Library
Protection issues are multi-dimensional in Somalia and Somaliland. Vulnerability is as much about physical violence as it is about drought and chronic food insecurity. The…
A Woman's Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
Briefs & Development
The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis…
ASEAN's Transformative Journey: Role of Women in Peace and Security
Library
ASEAN has embarked on exploring how to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the region. It has recently organised “an inaugural intersectoral…
Operationalizing a Feminist Foreign Policy: Recommendations for the US Government
Briefs & Development
This document focuses on how to operationalize a new feminist foreign policy within the US context. First, it sets out the existing international and national…
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2019
Briefs & Development
The ‘leave no one behind’ approach aims to identify not only who is left behind, but also the ways in which marginalization and exclusion are…
Women, Peace and Security and the Prevention of Violence: Reflections from Civil Society in the Context of the Fourth Swiss National Action Plan 1325
Briefs & Development
This report is the result of extensive desk-based research, interviews, and continuous discussions with civil society organizations (CSOs) and experts on Women, Peace and Security…
The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: Where Is the Environment in WPS and Where is WPS in Environmental Peacebuilding?
Briefs & Development
In 2015, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2242, which recognised for the first time that climate change interconnects with the Women, Peace and Security…
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
Briefs & Development
The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous…
Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups
Briefs & Development
Sexual violence in wartime is not inevitable, and its prevalence varies substantially among armed groups and over time. This study investigates how the financing of…
Towards Transformative Change: Women and the Implementation of the Colombian Peace Accord
Briefs & Development
Women and women’s civil society organizations (CSOs) were told for two years, when they tried to raise the situation of women and women’s rights in…
Opinion: Protect Indigenous, Community, and Women's Land Rights for Food Security and Nutrition
Blog
Legally recognized and protected land rights for indigenous peoples and local communities in the developing world are a key part of revitalizing the world’s food…
A Mother's Impossible Choice: Risk Rape to Feed Your Family, or Starve
International
On a dirt path dotted with bright-red bougainvillea, women in ankle-length dresses gather in groups of five or more before venturing into the forest. Right…
A More Just Migration: Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Displacement
Blog
“It is often expected that women care more, and therefore women are going to volunteer, and be the saviors” in times of crisis, said Eleanor Blomstrom,…
DRC Mining Industry Is a Prime Example of How Corporate Power Threatens Women’s Rights
Blog
On a research trip to the Kamituga gold mine in her home province of South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), activist Marie-Rose…
Land: Misinterpreting Islamic Law Robs Muslim Women of Land: Experts
News
The misinterpretation of Islamic law and a lack of knowledge about inheritance rights are major hurdles in improving women’s access to land in Muslim countries,…
No Guns, No Drugs, No Atrocities, No Rape, No Murder. Just Bananas…
International
Don José Manuel Suarez has seen some things. Father of seven and grandfather of 15, his 80 years have been spent farming a patch of…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Denies Pull-out from Oil-Rich Kirkuk
International
Iraq’s Defence Ministry on Saturday denied media reports about the withdrawal of federal police forces from the oil-rich Kirkuk province. Local media said federal police…
Resettlement Post Conflict: Risk and Protective Factors and Resilience Among Women in Northern Uganda
Briefs & Development
Approximately 1.8 million people were displaced in northern Uganda as a result of the LRA conflict. This paper explores risk and protective factors as well…
Anger and Sadness: Gendered Emotional Responses to Climate Threats in Four Island Nations
Briefs & Development
Climate change presents an important threat to community livelihoods and well-being around the world. Biophysical vulnerability to the effects of climate change, such as sea…