Blogs & Opinion
Indigenous Women Are Championing Climate Justice
19 January 2021 | Kavita Ramdas and Laura Garcia
For Indigenous Mollo people on Indonesia’s Timor Island, the forests, mountains, and water are not just their surroundings; they are as essential to their lives as food and air. These same forests...
From Rhetoric to Reality: Advancing Women’s Participation in Peace Processes
15 January 2021 | Marlene Spoerri
As President-elect Biden prepares to tackle global challenges, there is a concrete way to increase the odds of success: involve more women in high-level decision-making. This applies not only to the n...
Gender Equality and Food Security in Rural South Asia
6 January 2021 | Cindy Zhou
Globally, nearly 690 million people were hungry in 2019. Though the number of people who experience hunger in Asia has declined since 2015, the continent still accounts for more than half of the worl...
Gender Equality and Food Security in Rural South Asia: A Holistic Approach to the SDGs
4 January 2021 | Cindy Zhou
Globally, nearly 690 million people were hungry in 2019. Though the number of people who experience hunger in Asia has declined since 2015, the continent still accounts for more than half of the worl...
Women and Peacebuilding Can Help Reduce Poverty
3 January 2021 | Kylar Cade
Violent conflict had been on the rise even before the onset of the pandemic. Fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) have already caused much suffering and have the potential to bring about more pain....
Biden's Climate Plan Will Not Address Gender and Racial Inequality
28 December 2020 | Greer Gosnell and Sara Hastings-Simon
Women and minorities have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic recession and must be part of any comprehensive recovery program. The Biden administration’s quest to green the American econ...
Women Working on the Front Line
23 December 2020 | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a crisis reaching far beyond health, challenging fundamental aspects of the ways we have previously arranged our social and economic structures. It has amplified exist...
Tackling Gender Inequality Is ‘Crucial’ for Climate Adaptation
15 December 2020 | Ayesha Tandon
Efforts to tackle gender inequality can play a key role in how countries adapt to the growing risks posed by climate change, a new study says. Now new research, published in Nature Communications, sh...
What Afghan Women Leaders Want You to Know about the Peace Talks
14 December 2020 | The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban officially began in October of 2020, opening the possibility for ending to decades of violence through a political settlement. The talks, howe...
Peacebuilding without Protection: Yemeni Women’s Barriers to Peace
10 December 2020 | Nadia Ebrahim, Aïcha Madi, and Nesmah Mansoor
Women peacebuilders at the frontlines face multidimensional threats and violence in Yemen. The Peace Track Initiative’s staff can only deplore a lack of international awareness to the issue of prote...