Blogs & Opinion
To Raise Ambition at the Climate Summit, Let’s Promote Quality Education - Especially for Girls
10 December 2020 | Christina Kwauk and Lucia Fry
Last month, over 330 youth delegates to the Mock COP26 from over 140 countries signed a treaty of demands aimed at world leaders to address the greatest intergenerational equity issue of our time:...
How the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Must Change in Response to the Climate Crisis
3 December 2020 | Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson
The 20th anniversary of UNSCR 1325 in October this year has been an occasion of reflection for feminist peace activists around the world. What has been achieved? What is still to be done? Most agree t...
In the Words of Riko Nagu: “In Order to Build an Inclusive Society and a Resilient Community both Women and Men Should Work Together.
3 December 2020 | Anastasiia Tiurmenko
The IGNR project presents a series of articles, the heroines of which are local leaders who participated in the Traditional Governance and Facilitation Bill consultations organized by the Inclusive Go...
Women, Peace, and Security: This Is How We Win
29 November 2020 | Kelley E. Curie
Brave women, stepping forward and refusing to be ignored, have been critical to shifting the trajectory of ... threats to international peace and security.This idea — that women’s meaningful...
Women, Peace and Security in Cameroon: The Missing Voices of the Anglophone Crisis
27 November 2020 | Corinne Aurelie Moussi
The 21st century has been marked by growing calls to promote the inclusion and participation of women in peace processes as well as recognise their unique lived experiences in wartime and peacetime....
Can Promotion Groups Help Strengthen Women’s Access and Control over Land?
24 November 2020 | Ibrahima Dia
In Senegal, women’s ‘promotion groups’ have traditionally been vehicles for helping women share resources, ideas and experiences to increase income. But they are also – somewhat expected...
Integrate Gender When Designing Climate Policy
16 November 2020 | Mara Dolon and Jessica Olson
The team of people tasked with coordinating the global climate change negotiations for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in 2021, we recently learned, consists entirely of men. While not...
In the Caribbean, Climate Change Is a Gender Issue
16 November 2020
Caribbean countries are vulnerable to climate change and its impacts, including rising sea levels, extreme and unpredictable weather (including natural disasters), drought and flooding, biodiversity l...
Will Bangladesh Ever See An End To Gender-Based Violence?
16 November 2020 | Rosie Pasqualino
Acid and dowry-based attacks have been particularly prominent in the country, though sexual, physical, psychological and economic abuse has been recognized as forms of abuse by the government in 2010â...
Masculinity Is the Unspoken Undercurrent in Trumpism and the Fracking Debate
16 November 2020 | Zack Rearick
Deindustrialization emasculates. It hits at men’s pride and devalues a kind of blue-collar physicality that has traditionally been revered (glorified in culture) and rewarded (paid well). As “good...