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Leaving No One Behind at COP27

Oct 31, 2022 | Jenny Grönwall, Xanani Baloyi, and Georgette Mrakadeh-Keane

As COP27 fast approaches a slew of reports highlight how much work is yet to be done to meet the goal of reducing projected warming…

UN Deputy Chief Calls For Promoting Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding

Oct 21, 2022 | Mangalorean

United Nations:  The international community should step up efforts to promote women’s participation in conflict-prevention and peacebuilding, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said.

DRC: Congo Improves Extractive Sector Transparency but More Needed – Anti-Graft Body

Oct 21, 2022 | Reuters

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made progress in implementing transparency in its extractive mining sector but needs to do more in publishing contracts…

Fragility, Climate Change, and the Uncertain Lives of Agro-Pastoralist Women and Girls in East Africa

Oct 20, 2022 | Holly A. Ritchie, Open Global Rights

Aside from the political and social pressures that agro-pastoralist women and girls face, now they must add an urgent one: climate change.

Colombia: In Colombia, a New President Faces Old Environmental Challenges

Oct 20, 2022 | David Tarazona, Mongabay

Forest loss is just one of the many issues highlighted by experts, environmental organizations and former officials interviewed for this article, which analyzes the challenges…

Africa: High-Level Dialogue Deliberated Solutions for Gender Equality and Climate Resilience in Africa

Oct 18, 2022 | Madeline Wong

Climate change harms women disproportionately, exposing social and gender inequalities across the globe. At the same time, women are essential for transforming food systems that…

Bring Women to the Centre of Peace-building

Oct 18, 2022 | Sima Bahous

The world today is facing a horrendous range of conflicts. We are seeing military coups, seizures of land by force, and explosion of rivalries into…

Using Gender Sensitive Data to Inform Climate Security Planning

Oct 18, 2022 | Steve Recca and Maryruth B. Priebe

There is a growing consensus at the national and grassroots levels that women must be engaged as leaders and essential contributors in responding to the…

The World Cannot Fix the Global Food Crisis Without Rural Women

Oct 15, 2022 | Claudia Sadoff

A shocking jump in the number of women compared to men facing food insecurity lays bare a broadening gender gap, with women now shouldering a…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Experts Warn Climate Crisis Could Exacerbate Nile Dam Tensions

Oct 14, 2022 | Noureldein Ghanem, TRT World

With talks over Addis Ababa's Renaissance Dam deadlocked, experts say a major climate crisis event, such as inadequate rainfall or prolonged droughts, could soar tensions…

Cooperation Needed to Correct Course on Gender Equality: UN Report

Oct 14, 2022 | IISD

UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) issued a report, which presents evidence on gender equality across all 17 SDGs. Emphasizing…

Guatemala: Guatemalan Women Reinvent Agrobusiness

Oct 13, 2022 | Peride Blind

Doris* feels strongly about women being able to earn a living. She is president of one of the savings and credit groups in Chamaiq — a…

Conflict Minerals: Are Green Resource Wars Looming?

Oct 13, 2022 | Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox, Tom Dispatch

Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law this summer, focused on the boost it should give to the sales of…

Community Development/Gender Specialist

Oct 13, 2022 | International Rescue Committee

The IRC began working in Somalia in the early 1980s; initially to assist people seeking refuge in the aftermath of the Somalia-Ethiopian conflict. The focus…

National Consultant to Conduct an Evaluation of the National Plan for Prevent and Combat Gender-Based Violence (2018-2021)

Oct 13, 2022 | UN Women

BackgroundUN Women - the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the…

National Project Officer--Support of the Coordination Works for UN Joint Project "Empower for Inclusion” to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Timor-Leste

Oct 13, 2022 | UN Women

BackgroundUN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…

National Consultant to Conduct Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Mapped Gender Aware Climate Change Adaptation Interventions

Oct 13, 2022 | UN Women

BackgroundUN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…

Gender Equity Intern - Spring 2023

Oct 13, 2022 | International Rescue Committee

Job Description

BACKGROUND: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. At work in over 40…

Gender Inequality and the Connection to Climate Change

Oct 12, 2022 | Nelly Gachanja

Did you know gender inequality and climate change are interconnected? Africa is more vulnerable to climate change than any other region on the planet. Coincidentally,…

Unleashing the Power of Gender-Smart Climate Investing in Developed Markets

Oct 12, 2022 | Suzanne Biegel

With little capital flowing in established economies, and increasing urgency, the time to move money in this direction is now.When many investors — especially those…

Women Are on the Front Lines of Climate Change — So Let Them Steer The Response

Oct 11, 2022 | Cara Wilson

After years of working in the finance sector on both gender and sustainable finance initiatives, I am convinced that more women at the top would…

CFS 50: Statement from CSIPM on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Oct 11, 2022 | La Via Campesina

As a diverse collective, which is made of persons from the South and from the North, we, peasant women, Indigenous women, women from war-torn countries,…

Indigenous Women as Frontline Defenders in the Fight Against Climate Change

Oct 11, 2022 | Marisa O. Ensor

Although Indigenous communities comprise less than 5 percent of the world’s population, Indigenous peoples safeguard 80 percent of the planet's biodiversity. Indigenous lands are also crucial…

Qatar: Climate Change, Gender Equality in Spotlight at Doha Women Forum

Oct 7, 2022 | Gulf Times

Climate change, sports and gender equality was the focus area for the first part of the fifth edition of the Doha Women Forum held recently.

DRC: China Sends Criminal Experts to Halt Kidnappings in Mineral-Rich Democratic Republic of the Congo

Oct 6, 2022 | Jevans Nyabiage, South China Morning Post

As its alarm grows over the safety of Chinese citizens working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s high-stakes mining industry, Beijing is deploying criminal…

Climate Change is a Threat Multiplier for Women and Girls: UN expert

Oct 5, 2022 | United Nations

NEW YORK (5 October 2022) – Climate change and environmental degradation are escalating the risk and prevalence of violence against women and girls across the…

Gender-Informed Policies Fundamental for Climate Change Adaptation

Oct 5, 2022 | Sarah McLaughlin

Scientists from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are working to understand the gender gap in climate change adaptation and the causes behind this…

Women and Gender in Climate Diplomacy

Oct 5, 2022 | Amy M. Jaffe and Cali Nathanson

Prominent women leaders have played a critical role in the success of global climate negotiations and have contributed to a fuller understanding of the gendered…

Fiji: United States Hosts First-Ever Clean Energy Workshop and Women in Clean Energy Conference for the Pacific Islands

Oct 4, 2022 | US Embassy in Fiji

Suva, Fiji – In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the United States is hosting the first-ever Clean Energy Workshop and Pacific…

Gender Action Plan for Climate Change

Oct 2, 2022 | Hunain Mahmood

Climate Change Gender Action Plan argues for a greater role for women in the development of climate solutions.

In the wake of the recent floods, women…