Blogs & Opinion
Opinion: Women Have a Major Role in Rebuilding Somalia-- the Private Sector Must Support Them
3 April 2020 | Alice Laugher
When Zahra Ibrahim began studying at a university in Mogadishu, Somalia, she was told that computer science wasn’t for women. Her parents and teachers wanted her to study medicine; being a doctor wa...
COVID-19: Why Policymakers Need a Gender-focused Approach for Health and Economic Recovery
2 April 2020 | Julia Arnold, Elizabeth Anderson, Smriti Rao, and Sarah Gammage
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to engulf the world, questions of post-disaster recovery must be at the forefront of the conversation. We’re still far from understanding the full impact from the...
Learning from Dalit Women Fighting for Land Rights in Punjab
31 March 2020 | Tarini Manchanda
Stories about Dalit women often go untold, even though women of this social category continue to face discrimination in the caste system as the most oppressed social group in India. In Punjab, North...
Chitra Nagarajan on What’s Changed for Women in Lake Chad Region
27 March 2020 | Wania Yad
“Women and men face very different risks and challenges,” said Chitra Nagarajan, a writer and journalist who covers climate change, conflict, and gender. She spoke in this week’s podcast about...
Earth Hour Reminds us Tackling Climate Change Needs Gender Equality
27 March 2020 | Kalpana Giri
Forests are vital to tackling climate change. But if we are to succeed in our efforts to save the Earth, we must think beyond conservation, biodiversity and the number of planted trees. We must make g...
Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women
26 March 2020 | Celine Salcedo-La Vina
The international community now fully recognizes the need to secure women’s land rights. The Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s blueprint for development, include women’s land ownership...
Women and Peace and Security in the Time of Corona
25 March 2020 | Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
2020: It was always going to be a big year for the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda; twenty years since the UN Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1325, the first of the ten UN resolu...
Women Lose Most from the Climate Crisis. How Can we Empower Them?
24 March 2020 | Tharanga Gunawardena
Extreme climate events are increasingly threatening countries and livelihoods. Devastating natural disasters and unpredictable weather have made communities more vulnerable and impoverished, especial...
Gender and Climate-The Importance of Women's Leadership in Climate Action in Singapore and Hong Kong
23 March 2020 | John Sayer
At the most recent UN climate talks in Madrid in December 2019, one positive outcome was the approval of a new Gender Action Plan that strengthens gender perspectives and women’s participation in cl...
Women & Climate: Planting a Global Forest in a Connected World
23 March 2020 | Rita Ann Wallace and Cynthia S Reyes
In January of this year, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shocked much of the world when they announced they would be stepping down from their roles as sen...