Blogs & Opinion
Women in Local Governance Are Key to Building Resilience to Climate-Fragility Risks
3 December 2019 | Molly Kellogg and Lauren Olosky
The United Nations has recognized climate change as having important implications for peace and security, acting as a “threat multiplier” to other drivers of insecurity. In already fragile context...
Their Land, Our Future: To Arrest the Climate Crisis, We Need a Democratic Over-haul
2 December 2019 | Musimbi Kanyoro and Beth Roberts
Both the climate crisis and inequality require a democratic overhaul. And governments globally should start by turning over legal control of land and natural resources to local communities and indigen...
Land Access and Household Wellbeing in Cameroon: Does Gender Matter?
29 November 2019 | Eric Feubi Pamen
Africa remains a net food importing region spending more than USD 35 billion annually on food imports, although this continent has about 65% of the uncultivated arable land left in the world to feed 9...
Securing Women's Land Rights Advances Equity in Our Communities
29 November 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 right...
Women Land and Water Defenders Are the Real Peacebuilders
27 November 2019 | Gabriela Jimenez
Large-scale resource extraction often perpetuates violence, even in countries with peace accords. Those who mobilize to protect the land and water to build peace are often women.Such is the case in Gu...
Deepening Our Engagement with Gender Dimensions in Agriculture
27 November 2019 | Krista Jacobs
The Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program was delighted to partner with Agrilinks this October to raise awareness about the impacts of gender-based violence in agriculture pr...
Sleepwalking into Catastrophe - Climate Change
26 November 2019 | Linda Witong
Special Advisor to SI Advocacy, Linda Witong, takes a closer look at how and why climate change aggravates inequalities and increases the risks to women and girls of gender-based violence.“The world...
Women in Climate Change Hotspots Face Greater Burdens When Under Environmental Stress
26 November 2019 | Suzannah Lyons
Climate change has a negative impact on women's ability to make meaningful decisions in their lives, according to new research looking at climate change hotspots in Africa and Asia.Even when household...
Climate Change: Feminists Have Pushed for Marginalised Voices to Be Heard
25 November 2019
As calls grow for climate action to be more responsive to frontline communities, CIVICUS spoke to Maria Nailevu, a feminist climate activist from Fiji, about how feminists have been fighting for more...
Forest Conservation Must Address Violence Against Women
25 November 2019 | Jeanette Sequeira, Juana Vera Delgado, and Ruth Nyambura
November 25th has been designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the United Nations. The day also marks the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism Against Ge...