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UNDP Launches Gender and Crisis Engagement Facility
15 March 2021 | UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the establishment of a new facility designed to strengthen women’s leadership and participation in crisis contexts.
Burkina Faso: No Trees, No Crops, No Jobs: Burkina Faso's Women Fall Back on Hard Labour
14 March 2021 | Sam Mednick, Thomson Reuters News
Wiping her sandy fingers on her shirt, Balkissa Sawadogo for a moment rests her aching body from shovelling sand and gravel into piles. Three years ago, as rains dried up, the 25-year-old single moth...
Malala Yousafzai Says Educate Girls to Fight Climate Change
12 March 2021 | Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters News
Keeping girls in school and taking young climate leaders seriously are keys to tackling climate change, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said on Friday. Speaking to a virtual panel, Malala,...
Integrate Climate Change with Sexual and Reproductive Health to Safeguard the Wellbeing of All
12 March 2021 | UNFPA
“Climate change is one of the most disruptive issues of our time. Not only is it a disrupter of progress towards development, but it is also a multiplier of existing health vulnerabilities and gende...
Myanmar: UN Agency Raises Alarm Over ‘Targeted’ Violence Against Women in Myanmar Protests
12 March 2021 | UN News
In addition, women in detention are also reportedly experiencing sexual harassment and violence, UN-Women said in a statement on Friday. “Women have long played a celebrated and vital role in t...
Latest Session of UN Women’s Commission Focuses on Equality in Public Life
12 March 2021 | UN News
For the first time in its history, the Commission will be held almost entirely virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, with events organized by UN Women, which works to accelerate gender equality glob...
Colombia: Strengthening Women’s Leadership Role in Colombia’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector
12 March 2021 | Mirage News
In Colombia, the gold mining industry has typically employed men, with women’s participation extremely low, reaching only 5% of the total. But in Chocó, where artisanal gold mining has taken place...
United States: ‘A Dangerous Trajectory’: When Domestic Violence and Climate Change Converge
12 March 2021 | Lee Ann De Reus, Women's Media Center
Burst water pipes, flooding, and power outages at domestic violence shelters in Texas displaced hundreds of survivors during mid-February’s aberrant winter weather. At one particular shelter in Dall...
India: Women and Natural Resources: How Nature, Gender and Social Divisions Intersect
11 March 2021 | Snow Leopard Trust
To conserve snow leopards and natural resources better, we must understand and identify the important roles that women can - and do - play in local societies. In a recently published paper, Snow Leopa...
Pacific Women in Climate Change Negotiations
9 March 2021 | George Carter and Elise Howard, Asia & The Pacific Policy Forum
The under-representation of women in climate negotiations is well-established. When the global multilateral body on climate change, the Conferences of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Con...