Blogs & Opinion
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine: An Opportunity for Gender-Sensitive Policymaking?
18 September 2020 | Kateryna Busol
The stigma of CRSV, the patchy domestic legislation, and the unpreparedness of the criminal justice system to deal with such cases prevent the authorities from properly helping those harmed in the ong...
The Global Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls
16 September 2020 | Hannah Chosid
“As we face a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 800,000 people as of right now around the world, we certainly have to recognize the particular impacts that that has had on women...
Biometrics Could Give More Vivid Picture of Woman’s Workload
8 September 2020 | Allison Floyd
Asking a busy woman to report her daily activities can give researchers insight into how she spends her limited time and whether child-care and other household responsibilities leave her with enough b...
Loss and Damage in Rwanda: A Young Climate Activist Reports
3 September 2020 | Ineza Umuhoza Grace
On 8 September 2020, IIED and ICCCAD are hosting a webinar on climate-related loss and damage in the least developed countries. Here one of the speakers, Ineza Umuhoza Grace, reports on how cli...
Foundations for Gender Inclusive Peacebuilding
1 September 2020 | Abiosseh Davis
Through years of programming experience in post-conflict contexts, Interpeace has learned first-hand that inclusion, particularly of marginalized and historically excluded groups, is fundamental for t...
1325: Rhetoric or Reality?
1 September 2020 | Ndeye Sow and Gemma Kelly
Working on Women Peace & Security (WPS) issues since the 1990s, International Alert was directly involved in the global advocacy campaign “From the Village to the Negotiating Table” which help...
More Justice, Less Violence Related to Gender
1 September 2020 | Simone Eggler
Although 25 years have passed since the World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, violence against women worldwide is still at alarming levels. Even in Switzerland, violence inflicted on people d...
Ideas for How to Break Gender Barriers in Colombia's Water Sector
28 August 2020 | Karen Navarro
The relationship between water and women does not come only from mythology. Since ancestral times, women have been responsible for managing water in communities, particularly for daily household activ...
Expert's Take: Four Lessons from COVID-19 that Should Shape Policy Decisions Everywhere
28 August 2020 | Laura Turquet
All crises have gendered impacts – simply put, they affect women and men, girls and boys in different ways. COVID-19 is no different. Six months into the pandemic, what have we learned? What do poli...
Why Are Women Experts ‘Absent’ From Panels on War & Security?
27 August 2020 | Ruhee Neog
In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, an Athenian magistrate demands of an assembly of women: “And where do you get off taking an interest in war and peace?” The play, set during the Peloponnesian War...