Blogs & Opinion
Climate Change is Brutal for Everyone, but Worse for Women
25 November 2019 | Matt Simon
The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of the human experience it isn’t transforming. Supercharged wildfires are devastating Californi...
A Gender Lens is Essential to Sustaining Peace: Evidence from Mozambique
25 November 2019
Despite decades of relative peace and recent efforts to promote gender equality, women and girls in Mozambique continue to experience a disproportionate amount of insecurity. A new report released tod...
Colombia Must Protect the Women Risking Their Lives to Defend Black Communities
23 November 2019 | Duncan Tucker
Danelly Estupiñán will never forget the first threats she received back in 2015. First came the text message declaring “Danelly, your end has come.” And then a distorted voice over the phone, re...
Climate Change Affects Women More. What Can the State Do to Intervene?
19 November 2019 | Sara Hayat
Climate change is affecting us all, but certain demographics more than others. Marginalised communities — and within them, women in particular — feel the discriminatory impacts of climate change m...
Countering the Caliphate in North Africa: Three Expert Views on Gender and the Need for Collective Action
15 November 2019 | Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy, Rachel George, and Melanie Pinet
While the transnational nature of violent extremism across North Africa is becoming increasingly clear, international and national prevention remains restricted by state borders and often overlooks th...
Land Portal at CFS46: Empowering Advocates for Women's Land Rights Through Open Data
15 November 2019 | Laura Meggiolaro
At CFS 46, the Land Portal had the opportunity to be the co-organizer of the side event How the VGGT have changed rural women’s lives: Key strategies and innovations towards gender equality toget...
"Creating the Future Together": SCARA Symposium on ICT and Innovations in Agriculture
14 November 2019
The SCARA Symposium on ICT and innovations in agriculture, “Creating the Future Together“ under the APPEAR project “Strengthening Capacities for Agricultural Education, Research & Adoptio...
The Many Historical Courses of Gender and Water in India
12 November 2019 | Indu Gupta
Water is essential for human survival and development, but the ongoing water crisis in India, despite 70 years of policy-making is widening the circle of poverty, water-borne diseases, and gender ineq...
How Feminist Research Can Help Confront the Climate Crisis
11 November 2019 | Maria Tanyag
Humanity is now at a point where we can no longer afford to examine climate-related risks and their impacts on humans independent of other ecosystems, or to treat risks to food insecurity and health,...
Debate Urges Broader Thinking on Diversity
11 November 2019 | Kristie Batten
Despite its name, the debate focused on broader themes of diversity, based around the topic ‘a diversity debate that begins and ends with gender is doomed to fail'.Saracen Mineral Holdings managing...