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Gender Relations in Forestry: Beyond a Headcount
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Women can play a huge role as ‘critical actors’ in defending and managing their forests, says Ph.D. candidate and gender researcher Priyanka Bhalla from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in...
Women Leaders Are Doing a Disproportionately Great Job at Handling the Pandemic. So Why Aren’t There More of Them?
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CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power discuss how seven female world leaders are spearheading a strong response to the coronavirus pandemic. In Taiwan,...
Women, Peace, and Security: Gender and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Amid the coronavirus outbreak, a number of commentators have stressed the need for gender analysis of the issue. Writing for The Atlantic, Helen Lewis discusses the ways in which a pandemic magnifie...
Developing Recommendations for a Gender-Responsive Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
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The expert workshop will take place in New York, United States of America, on 11 and 12 April 2019, and will bring together approximately 30 to 40 experts representing Parties, the United Nations s...
Unfulfilled Ambition: Yemen's National Action Plan for Women Leaves Much to Be Desired
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As Yemen enters its sixth year of a vicious war, turning it into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, women bear the greater burden of the armed conflict. Even before the conflict, Yemeni women we...
Mainstreaming Gender and Sustainability Jointly: A Case Study From a Local Government in Spain
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After the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, mainstreaming has regained attention as a key strategy to advance towards sustainable development (SD). Taking into account the multidi...
Multilateral Cooperation in the Area of Climate-Related Security and Development Risks in Africa
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Over the past decade the impact of climate change on people’s everyday lives have become tangible. Its effects have contributed to loss of human life, it has undermined livelihoods, destroyed infras...
The Myth of Empowerment: Gender, Conflict, and ‘Development’ in Kashmir
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This paper attempts to look at the discourse of development and empowerment in a conflict zone like Kashmir to explore how such narratives are employed by the state to suppress people’s resistance....
Gender and Politics in Northern Ireland and Kosovo
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This chapter explores the dimensions of gender and politics in Kosovo and Northern Ireland. The dynamics of the two conflicts and their transitions are explored in the context of how they impact on wo...
Can Gender Equality Help Solve Climate Change
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Is gender equality a key factor in tackling climate change? Many think so, and in this lecture Environment Professor Jacqueline McGlade will explain why in relation to UN Sustainable Development Goal...
COVID-19: Why Policymakers Need a Gender-focused Approach for Health and Economic Recovery
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to engulf the world, questions of post-disaster recovery must be at the forefront of the conversation. We’re still far from understanding the full impact from the...
Gender Inequalities in Social Protection- People, Households and Climate Adaptation
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Climate risks place a heavy burden on many households in developing countries, with basic needs such as food, water and shelter threatened. Some people and households finance adaptative measures by us...
Learning from Dalit Women Fighting for Land Rights in Punjab
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Stories about Dalit women often go untold, even though women of this social category continue to face discrimination in the caste system as the most oppressed social group in India. In Punjab, North...
Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women
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The international community now fully recognizes the need to secure women’s land rights. The Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s blueprint for development, include women’s land ownership...
Women Powering Climate Action
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Please note: this event will be a live stream event only.Hear from Amelia Telford (national director of Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network); Christina Hobbs (CEO of Verve Super, Australia's f...
Women and Peace and Security in the Time of Corona
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2020: It was always going to be a big year for the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda; twenty years since the UN Security Council’s adoption of resolution 1325, the first of the ten UN resolu...
Debate on Gender Equality: "Target 30% Males in Management by 2030?"
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IMPACTR is flipping the script on the UN´s Gender Equality sustainable development target of 30% women in management by 2030. Only 3 women out of 10 at the decision table...in 10 years from now? Too...
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Feminist Pathways to Just and Sustainable Futures
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Please note: this event has been postponed.Our reason for holding this symposium is to call attention not only to the climate crisis, but also to what is at stake in the kinds of solutions that are pr...
Gender and Climate-The Importance of Women's Leadership in Climate Action in Singapore and Hong Kong
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At the most recent UN climate talks in Madrid in December 2019, one positive outcome was the approval of a new Gender Action Plan that strengthens gender perspectives and women’s participation in cl...
When Local Law Impedes Conflict Resolution: Women's Oil Protests in the Niger Delta
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Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region hosts a long-standing conflict among residents, the government, and foreign oil companies operating in rural areas. Both peaceful and armed cadres of men have l...
Cross Border Natural Resource Management in Kenya: How Role and Responsibilities of Actors Influence Sustainable Peace in Eastern Africa Region
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The study findings and recommendations consolidate additional, revised and customized knowledge that reinforces relevant theory, practice and policy through evidence-based targeted planning and progra...
Front Line Defenders: Global Analysis 2019
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2019 was characterised by waves of public uprisings of remarkable magnitude in each of the world regions, demanding changes to how people were governed. The role human rights defenders (HRDs) played i...
When Women Lead: Feminist Action for Climate Justice
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Please note: this event has been postponed.The effects of the climate crisis are not gender-neutral and neither are the solutions. It is women who are often most affected, and in the best position to...
Gender Equality: Women’s Rights in Review 25 Years After Beijing
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Marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, as well as the first time that progress on the implementation of the Platform is reviewed in light of the 2030 Agenda...
Towards a Gendered Peacebuilding Processes for Sustainable Peace
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In 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 affirmed the importance of including women in conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes. Despite the existence of Security Council Re...
6 Reasons Gender Equality Is Crucial to Achieving the UN's Global Goals
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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision a world without poverty, hunger, and conflict; one with access to health care, education, and economic opportunity — in short, a w...
Workshop: Co-Creating Feminist Priorities for the Beijing Action Coalition on Climate Justice
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CCUN, 2nd FloorHosted by large collective of women’s rights and feminist climate justice advocates.Who: Women's Environment and Development Organization Where: New York City, USAWhen: 16 March 2...
Women and the Environment: Roles, Risks and Rights
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“Each year, the month of March is a crucial time for women’s organisations worldwide as we take stock of the progress women and girls in different parts of the world have made in the last year as...
Why I Marched for the Environment on International Women's Day
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Last Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), a ground-breaking resolution that set out objectives in 12 key areas for the advanc...
Greenovate Boston Gender Equity & Climate Rountable 2
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The Gender Equity & Climate Roundtable is meant to encourage conversation around the connection between climate change and gender equity. Though climate change will affect all Bostonians, many Bos...