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Kenya: Kenya – Indigenous Women Overcome Discrimination to Lead Community COVID-19 Responses
International
In Kenya, indigenous women are tapping into local resources, and undertaking individual and collective initiatives to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. Rose Wamalwa reports. This is…
International Conference on Women, Peace, and Security
Event
International Conference on Women, Peace, and Security aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research…
South Africa Warns UN Security Council about Violence Against Women in Occupied Western Sahara
International
South Africa warned the UN Security Council about the increasing violations of human rights in occupied Palestine and Western Sahara, in particular the hostilities permanently…
Afghanistan: 'Divorce Isn't an Option': Afghan Women Find Hope in Saffron Scheme
International
In Zadid’s village in Herat province’s Pashtun Zarghun district, an area disputed by the Afghan government and the Taliban, an increasing number of men are…
Reports Highlight the Need for Further Consideration of Gender, Climate, and Security Linkages
Blog
In a recent Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) paper, Elizabeth Seymour Smith, a Research Assistant with SIPRI’s Climate Change and Risk Programme, explores the intersection of…
The Women, Peace, and Security Resolutions and the Politics of Gender Expertise and Feminist Knowledge in Post-Conflict Settings
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Note: this event has been cancelled.
This panel investigates the meaning and practice of gender expertise in post-conflict contexts, exploring how the Women, Peace and Security…
Gender and Development in Myanmar
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Myanmar faces enormous development challenges in the midst of a rapidly changing and uncertain political and economic landscape. The European Journal of Development Research is…
Why Gender Responsiveness is Crucial for Equitable, Effective and Efficient Climate Finance
Blog
Women all over the world suffer from the impacts of climate change. They are often more severely affected by climate change impacts as they aggravate…
Why Gender Responsiveness is Crucial for Equitable, Effective and Efficient Climate Finance
Blog
Women all over the world suffer from the impacts of climate change. They are often more severely affected by climate change impacts as they aggravate…
Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Environmental Programming
International
The World Bank estimates that one in three women and girls will experience gender-based violence during her lifetime. In communities that experience severe environmental stress and degradation,…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Hires Lockdown Jobless to Boost Kabul's Water and Trees
International
As lockdown measures imposed in March take their toll on Afghanistan’s workforce, the government is employing more than 40,000 jobless workers to rehabilitate groundwater supplies…
GPS Webinar: Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law: A Focus on WPS-CEDAW Synergies by Dr Catherine O'Rourke
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Laws and norms that focus on women’s lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights…
The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in the Middle East
Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the normative structures and behaviors of almost every country around the world. The fallout has put pressure on even the…
African Women in Films about African Colonial and Postcolonial Conflicts
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Cinematic representations of African women in situations of political conflict, including fictional, biographical and documentary, have become an important source of information from which many…
Covid-19 in Colombia: Migration, Armed Conflict and Gendered Violence
Blog
In Colombia, 2019 ended with massive demonstrations throughout the country, gathering together several groups, such as students, unions, retirees, feminist organizations, indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombians and environmental defenders.…
Papua New Guinea: Gender-Based Violence Shakes Communities in the Wake of Forest Loss
International
KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea — Change. That’s what Monica Yongol has seen in her 54 years. In that time, the loggers and then the oil…
Colombia: Colombia’s Crumbling Drug Policy: Farmers Thwart Attempt to Resume Aerial Spraying of Coca
International
The Colombian government thought it could outsmart farmers by taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to resume the aerial spraying of coca. Turns out farmers…
Climate Disruption, Gender, and Peacebuilding
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This three-day, invitation-only workshop, organized with support from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, will be centered on climate. It will ask, how is it…
Women, Peace and, Security: Principles, Policy, and Practice 20 Years After UNSC Resolution 1325
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The UN Resolution 1325 (2000) was a key moment for global peace. The world for the first time recognised the key role of women in…
Libya's Forgotten Half: Between Conflict and Pandemic, Women Pay the Higher Price
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Immediately after the state of emergency was declared in Libya, the government in Tripoli began dispensing funds intended to combat the pandemic. Half of it…
Plans to Prevent Future Pandemics Must Consider Gender Issues, Too (Commentary)
Blog
As COVID-19 continues to wrack our lives, the topic of the illegal wildlife trade and its connection to the coronavirus has garnered recent headlines. Many organizations,…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: China Updates Disputed Sea Maps to Get Back at Vietnam
International
China has renamed scores of islets and underwater landforms in the South China Sea, a move some analysts say is intended to push back against…
Might Feminism Revive Arms Control? Why Greater Inclusion of Women in Nuclear Policy Is Necessary and How to Achieve It
News
The link between gender and security has become a prominent issue in the public debate over the last decades. On the most basic level, it…
Women in Ukraine's Military: An Opportunity for Change
Blog
While UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security urges countries to increase the participation of women in the military through a top-down approach, in…
India’s COVID–19 Gender Blind Spot
Blog
The second most populous country in the world, India, has been under a nationwide lockdown since March 24, 2020 – one it intends to continue…
Yemen: On the Frontline of War, Yemeni Women Are Building Peace
International
It was the third year of the war when Muna Luqman heard of a conflict over water in Al-Haymatain, a remote area of Yemen’s Taiz…
Indonesia: Conflict between Indonesian Villagers, Pulpwood Firm Flares up over Crop-Killing Drone
International
Villagers in Sumatra accuse a pulpwood plantation company of using a drone to spray herbicide to kill their crops, calling it the latest in a…
Africa: Triple Threat - Conflict, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
International
Johannesburg — The new coronavirus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than three million people worldwide – 31,000 in Africa by 26 April – with Egypt,…
Africa: Triple Threat - Conflict, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
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The new coronavirus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than three million people worldwide – 31,000 in Africa by 26 April – with Egypt, South Africa,…
Liberia: Gender Ministry’s Exempt During COVID-19 Lockdown, Increases Sex & Domestic Violence, Says Child Rights Activist
International
Monrovia – Liberian child rights activist, Satta Fatumata Sheriff has frowned on the decision by the George Weah—led government to close the Ministry of Gender, Children…