Blogs & Opinion
CFFP Volunteer Lea Börgerding Speaks with Dorothy Nalubega, a Ugandan Minority Rights Activist, Feminist and Environmentalist
19 December 2019 | Lea Börgerding and Leonie Schmid
Lea Börgerding (LB): Dorothy, you are a minority rights activist and environmentalist. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your work? Dorothy Nalubega (DN): I am the African Coordin...
The Role of Women and Gender in the Fight Against Climate Change
18 December 2019 | Chiara Soletti
It’s now an established fact that climate change is a risk factor for the life and fundamental rights of millions of people in ways that reflect social and economic inequalities within their co...
Gender Matters in Coastal Livelihood Programs in Indonesia
18 December 2019 | Emily Gibson and Natasha Stacey
Significant investments have been made in improving the well-being of Indonesian coastal communities in recent decades. However, most of these programs have not tackled gender inequalities.Our team st...
How Women Can Lift Malawi Out of Poverty
18 December 2019 | Sarah Chabane
More than half of the agricultural labour force in Malawi are women. However, they rarely get their fair share for the hard work they do in the fields – female farmers earn three times less than the...
Women From the Xingu Territory Unite Against Threats from Bolsonaro Administration
18 December 2019 | Maria Fernanda Ribeiro
“We don’t think about selling wood or any part of the Earth to get money. We have so many ways to support ourselves that we don’t need to destroy anything.” This declaration came from Anna Ter...
Benefits of Gender Equality in Sustainable Ecosystem Management
17 December 2019
Over the last several decades, principles of gender equality and women’s empowerment have permeated into numerous internationally agreed-upon goals. Ranging from commitments on human rights, pea...
Climate Conferences are Male, Pale and Stale- It's Time to Bring in Women
16 December 2019 | Maria Tanyang and Jacqui True
The COP25 climate meeting in Madrid concluded over the weekend. As in past meetings, the talks failed to make much progress on international climate action. And again, the views and needs of women wer...
Advances for Gender Equality at COP25
13 December 2019 | Women’s Environment and Development Organization
After nearly two weeks of negotiations at COP 25 climate negotiations in Madrid, Spain, the governments have adopted a new 5-year Gender Action Plan (GAP) that progressively builds upon the first GAP,...
Libera: Securing Women's Land Rights Advances Equity in Our Communities
3 December 2019 | Josefa Sacko
The African Union (AU) Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges, the AU Declaration of committing 2010 - 2020 as the African Women's Decade and the AU 30 per cent target for documented land rights in...
Climate Crisis Could Reverse Progress in Achieving Gender Equality
3 December 2019 | Nitya Rao
People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis. In vulnerable hotspots, such as the arid land...