Blogs & Opinion
Herstory: 10 Guatemalan Women Who Changed the Course of History
20 March 2020 | Melissa Vida
Guatemala’s Indigenous peoples make up 60% of the country’s population, yet somehow Indigenous people—and especially Indigenous women—rarely made it into history books. Overall, there seems to...
6 Reasons Gender Equality Is Crucial to Achieving the UN's Global Goals
16 March 2020 | Joe McCarthy
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision a world without poverty, hunger, and conflict; one with access to health care, education, and economic opportunity — in short, a w...
Why Feminine Leadership Is Essential for the Clean Energy Transition
13 March 2020 | Sarah Golden
Feminine leadership is essential to solving society’s largest, intractable challenges, according to Sarah Shanley Hope, executive director of the Solutions Project. The Solutions Project is a smal...
Women and the Environment: Roles, Risks and Rights
12 March 2020 | Theresa W. Devasahayam
“Each year, the month of March is a crucial time for women’s organisations worldwide as we take stock of the progress women and girls in different parts of the world have made in the last year as...
Why I Marched for the Environment on International Women's Day
12 March 2020 | Katy Wiese
Last Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), a ground-breaking resolution that set out objectives in 12 key areas for the advanc...
An Ambitious Year for Climate Action Is a Big Year for Women's Empowerment
9 March 2020 | Frank Rijsberman and Ingvild Solvang
This year, the Paris Agreement’s effectiveness as a global response to the climate crisis is being tested as governments are preparing to submit more ambitious national targets for mitigation and ad...
Scaling-Out Gender Transformation for Climate Change
9 March 2020 | Sophie Huyer and Heidi Braun
Climate change has enormous implications for women in the developing world through increased workloads, food insecurity, threats to health, and more responsibilities due to male out-migration.Effectiv...
Reframing the Debate Around Women, Peace and Security
8 March 2020 | Shreen Abdul Saroor
When a peace deal is struck between warring factions, it is widely understood that peace has been achieved. However, when key sections of society—in most cases all women—are kept from the negotiat...
Supporting More Than Equal Numbers in International Climate Debates
8 March 2020 | Brianna Craft and Samantha McCraine
#EachforEqual is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. It recognises that equality requires everyone’s support and that, when we all support each other, we are stronger.The UN cli...
Women's Safety Means Earth's Safety
8 March 2020 | Jessica Carey-Webb
Across the world, women are actively protecting the natural environment. In Latin America, despite consistent threats of violence and widening gender inequality due to climate disasters, women have ta...