Blogs & Opinion
Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women
6 March 2020
Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate c...
Five Ways Gender Equity Can Help Save the Planet
6 March 2020
Around the world, women are pulling above their weight to sustain communities despite barriers in access to nearly everything: education, information, paid work, credit, lands, freedom of movement, an...
Why Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women
5 March 2020 | Joe McCarthy
Climate change is a planetary phenomenon that will impact all countries, but its effects are being shaped by pervasive and entrenched gender inequality.Heat waves, droughts, rising sea levels, and ex...
Eliminate Legal Discrimination Against Women to Advance Food Security and Nutrition
5 March 2020 | Ilaria Bottigliero and Françoise Trine
In societies where there is a high degree of gender inequality, there is also a significantly higher proportion of undernourishment among women and girls.In order to effectively tackle food insecuri...
Silicon Valley Insider: The Intersection of Food and Gender
28 February 2020 | Fiorella Riccobono
When examining the Sustainable Development Goals of The United Nations; zero hunger, responsible production, and climate action are three of the main focal points. In order to take on these goals, we...
Climate Change Leads to More Violence Against Women, Girls
27 February 2020 | Jeannette Cwienk
Ntoya Sande was 13 years old when she got married — against her will. "I was sent to be married because of a shortage of food in the house," she said. Her parents used to have a small piece of lan...
What Can National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights Do for Women's Rights?
27 February 2020 | Nora Götzmann and Wangui Kimotho
National action plans (NAPs) are currently applied by states as one of the key policy tools for the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) at the...
Youth Transitions in the Drylands: Gendered Rights in Land Access and Control
26 February 2020 | Esther Njuguna, Shambel Getachew, Brenda BoonaBaana, Dismas Mwaseba, and Eleanor Mavis
In 2019, the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) initiated a study to understand ‘youth realities, youth aspirations and youth opportunity structures’ in the dry...
Gender Gap Is Causing Wars Says Defence Forces Chief
26 February 2020
“In the context of eco-system governance, perhaps the most invasive species of all is human beings,” he said.The gender gap is one of the biggest drivers of inter-state and intra-state violence an...
Hunger Is an Often Overlooked Cause - and Effect - of Gender Inequality
25 February 2020 | Annie Reneau
Around the world, women and girls face many obstacles to advancement, such as unequal access to education, lack of economic opportunity, and disproportionate rates of violence. But one disadvantage wo...