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Gender and Climate Change: Towards Comprehensive Policy Options
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This chapter reviews women’s vulnerability to climate change, gender differences in attitudes and behaviours towards climate change, and gender differences in climate change adaptation. The vulnerab...
Preventing Conflict: The Origins of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (Chapter in "Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325"
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Throughout history women peace activists from all over the world have united to try and put an end to war. Their call for a commitment to peace and for disarmament has been consistent and universal ev...
Climate Disruption, Gender, and Peacebuilding
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This three-day, invitation-only workshop, organized with support from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, will be centered on climate. It will ask, how is it possible to build gender-just sustai...
Women, Peace and, Security: Principles, Policy, and Practice 20 Years After UNSC Resolution 1325
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The UN Resolution 1325 (2000) was a key moment for global peace. The world for the first time recognised the key role of women in peace and the need for their equal participation in conflict resolutio...
The Pandemic's Gender Imperative
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Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care, at school, or in caring for the elderly. In many countries...
Webinar: Untapped Opportunities in Water, Energy, and Climate Change in Africa for Women and Youth
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Speaker: Prof. Abdelkader Allali, Nobel prize co-winner, Former IPCC WGII Vice Chair AR4, President of Moroccan Association Hassanian for Health and Environment (AMHES) Morocco.Who: FutureEarthWher...
Libya's Forgotten Half: Between Conflict and Pandemic, Women Pay the Higher Price
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Immediately after the state of emergency was declared in Libya, the government in Tripoli began dispensing funds intended to combat the pandemic. Half of it tangled in corrupt deals and used to silenc...
Our Recovery from the Coronavirus Crisis Must Have Gender Empowerment at its Heart
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What most crises have in common is that they hit the most vulnerable and marginalized populations—among which women are disproportionally represented—the hardest. The impact of the COVID-19 pandem...
Women: The Climate Solution We Need to Talk About
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Women make up nearly half of the agricultural labor force in developing nations—yet in many countries they can’t even own the land on which they toil; they also often lack access to credit, educ...
Securing Pathways to Environmental Justice for Indigenous Women
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Across the Americas, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or the World Bank (WB), finance public and private projects to support the development of...
Water Fetching Responsibilities Reveal Unequal Gender Dynamics: Elevates Need for Expansion of On-Site WASH Facilities
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Women in low-income households have limited access to financial services and educational opportunities, which in turn restricts their ability to tap into the labor market and cements their role as car...
Equality in a Post-Pandemic Era: Gender, COVID-19, Agriculture, and Climate Change
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Globally, one in three women works in agriculture, which tends to be informal, low paid, and especially vulnerable to shocks. For example, when droughts and floods limit access to safe water, more tim...
Plans to Prevent Future Pandemics Must Consider Gender Issues, Too (Commentary)
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As COVID-19 continues to wrack our lives, the topic of the illegal wildlife trade and its connection to the coronavirus has garnered recent headlines. Many organizations, such as the Wildlife Conserv...
Why Gender Should Be at the Heart of COVID Recovery
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The tourism industry has been catapulted into a global emergency by COVID-19. After decades of stable growth, only temporarily interrupted by incidents of terrorism, pandemics or natural catastrophes,...
Supporting Women Environmental Defenders in the Time of COVID-19
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Both the feminist and environmental movements are amongst the most prominent challengers of this commodification. However, environmental defenders face discrimination, violence and high risks, especi...
Opinion: In the Battle Against COVID-19, Women Make Somalia Stronger
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Brave health workers. Brilliant researchers. Responsible leaders. Solidarity. Around the world, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what makes us strong. But it also highlights what makes us fragile.In Soma...
Might Feminism Revive Arms Control? Why Greater Inclusion of Women in Nuclear Policy Is Necessary and How to Achieve It
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The link between gender and security has become a prominent issue in the public debate over the last decades. On the most basic level, it is understood as greater inclusion of women in security policy...
Reducing Post-Harvest Losses through Better Gender Integration
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Post-harvest management is an important, although less visible, step in ensuring a community’s food security. Poor post-harvest management reduces both the quantity and quality of food available for...
Women in Ukraine's Military: An Opportunity for Change
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While UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security urges countries to increase the participation of women in the military through a top-down approach, in Ukraine, this process has emerged in the r...
Improve Gender Equality to Better our Island
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The Guam Green Growth Initiative was launched earlier this year, and dozens of leaders from the government, business, nonprofit and academic community came together to commit Guam to achieving the UN...
Gender Integration in Climate Change and Agricultural Policies: The Case of Nepal
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Gender integration across national policy processes is critical to ensure effective implementation of climate change adaptation interventions in agriculture. This is especially so for countries like N...
And She Persisted for Peace: Redesign the Table
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Redesign the Table comes ahead of the annual convening of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and ahead of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR1325 addressing four key pillars of the WP...
Women, Peace, and Security Conference
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We invite you to join us in taking this as an opportunity for feminist learning and reflections, which enables us to create other platforms for engagement, knowledge transfer and exchange. As we look...
On Earth Day and Every Day, We Need to Focus on the Intersection of Gender Data and the Environment
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The effects of climate change are widespread, but not all are well-known. Nowhere is this clearer than in the lack of gender data on how exactly women and girls are affected by climate change and envi...
A Gender-Equal Ethiopian Parliament Can Improve the Lives of All Women
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Recent gains by women in the Ethiopian political landscape offer a chance to improve gender equality around the country and put an end to long-standing societal iniquities. Since coming to power in 2...
Case 2: Nigeria
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This case study explores the links between climate change and violent conflict in Nigeria. Acknowledging that the causal chains are often indirect and difficult to demonstrate with precision, the stud...
Case 1: Bangladesh
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Located in the world’s largest river delta, Bangladesh’s fertile territory and coastal waters sustain an extraordinarily dense and fast-growing population. With a majority of Bangladeshis living i...
A Gender Lens for COVID-19
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When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat. Often the last factor they consider – if it makes their to-do lists at all – is gender. As adv...
Political Feminism and the Women's Movement in Thailand
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Commissioned with these issues in mind, this paper proposes four areas through which gender issues can be strategically politicized and based on feminist principles and approaches: 1) Public communica...
Pandemic Hits Women Harder, Says WSI
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Is a gender viewpoint needed to examine the COVID-19 risks and impacts on fisheries and aquaculture? According to Natalia Briceño-Lagos and Marie Christine Monfort of the International Organisation f...