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Their Land, Our Future: To Arrest the Climate Crisis, We Need a Democratic Over-haul
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Both the climate crisis and inequality require a democratic overhaul. And governments globally should start by turning over legal control of land and natural resources to local communities and indigen...
Land Access and Household Wellbeing in Cameroon: Does Gender Matter?
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Africa remains a net food importing region spending more than USD 35 billion annually on food imports, although this continent has about 65% of the uncultivated arable land left in the world to feed 9...
Securing Women's Land Rights Advances Equity in Our Communities
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The African Union (AU) Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges, the AU Declaration of committing 2010 – 2020 as the African Women’s Decade and the AU 30 per cent target for documented land right...
Women Land and Water Defenders Are the Real Peacebuilders
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Large-scale resource extraction often perpetuates violence, even in countries with peace accords. Those who mobilize to protect the land and water to build peace are often women.Such is the case in Gu...
Verve Think Tank: Gender and Climate Change
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Why the climate crisis is a feminist issue...and what you can do about it.During the global campaign, 16 Days of Activism to end gender-based violence we invite you to join us for a lively and informa...
WPP "United Women for Peace Forum" London Edition
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Please join us for the launch of ‘United Women Peace Forum', an initiative of the non-profit "Women for Peace and Participation”. This event will highlight the role of diaspora women leaders who c...
Sleepwalking into Catastrophe - Climate Change
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Special Advisor to SI Advocacy, Linda Witong, takes a closer look at how and why climate change aggravates inequalities and increases the risks to women and girls of gender-based violence.“The world...
Climate Change: Feminists Have Pushed for Marginalised Voices to Be Heard
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As calls grow for climate action to be more responsive to frontline communities, CIVICUS spoke to Maria Nailevu, a feminist climate activist from Fiji, about how feminists have been fighting for more...
Forest Conservation Must Address Violence Against Women
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November 25th has been designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the United Nations. The day also marks the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism Against Ge...
Climate Change is Brutal for Everyone, but Worse for Women
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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
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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...
Is Gender Balance a Governance Issue Which Should Be as Prominent as Environmental Risk in the UK's New Stewardship Code?
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Join us for a business breakfast event on the topic of gender balance - is this a governance issue which should be as prominent as environmental risk in the UK’s new Stewardship Code?Scrutiny of how...
Colombia Must Protect the Women Risking Their Lives to Defend Black Communities
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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...
Gender Equity and Climate Roundtable
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The Gender Equity and Climate Roundtable is meant to encourage conversation around the connection between climate change and gender equity. Though climate change will affect all Bostonians, many Bost...
Why We Need a Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace and a Sustainable Planet
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Western peacebuilding models repeatedly fail to bring sustainable peace. And our dominant economic models, with their overwhelmingly extractive stance toward both people and the planet, have left us c...
Climate Change Affects Women More. What Can the State Do to Intervene?
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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...
Improving the Socioeconomic Status of Rural Women Associated with Agricultural Land Acquisition: A Case Study in Huong Thuy Town, Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam
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Since the 2000s, agricultural land acquisition (ALA) for urbanization and industrialization has been quickly implemented in Vietnam, which has led to a huge socioeconomic transformation in rural areas...
Leading Change - Can Women Solve the Climate Crisis
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We want to explore how women can lead and create change for a better and more sustainable society and world. We want to offer a co-creational safe space where we explore ideas and actions that might b...
Women Peace and Security Report of the Secretary-General
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The present report is submitted pursuant to the presidential statement dated 26 October 2010 (S/PRST/2010/22), in which the Security Council requested annual reports on the implementation of its resol...
Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors
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Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without bias. The high...
Countering the Caliphate in North Africa: Three Expert Views on Gender and the Need for Collective Action
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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...
Women, Peace and Security Kenya 2019 Conference
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The theme of the conference is “ The future of Women, Peace and Security , and partnerships to shaping that future”The conference takes place in the framework of the Women, Peace and Security Ken...
The Many Historical Courses of Gender and Water in India
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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...
Lightning Talks: Unfinished Business from Gender-Based Violence to Youth, Peace and Security
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This session will explore how to accelerate achievement 25 years after the ICPD and in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Engaging young people, ending harmful practices, empowering wom...
How Feminist Research Can Help Confront the Climate Crisis
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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,...
New Challenges for Women's Land Rights in Africa
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A new wave of gender-related land reforms has swept across Africa south of the Sahara in recent years. These reforms have incorporated innovative approaches to land administration, including legal pro...
Why Should We Care About the Gender Dimension of Climate Change?
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Women farmers encounter a great deal of challenges that constrain their agricultural activities. Differing societal roles, unequal access to and control of resources, and women’s lack of participati...
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military
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Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military, edited by Dr. Robert Egnell and Mayesha Alam, compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the...
A Lifelong Fight for Gender Equality: In Conversation with Carmen Barroso
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On a recent rainy morning in Portland, USA, Carmen Barroso, aged 75, stood amongst thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets to advocate for climate policies. She held her Planned Parenthood...
Can Women Make the World More Peaceful?
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A genuine comprehensive analysis shows that involving women in peacebuilding increases the probability that violence will end in an easy manner. Hence we should thank God for giving us a decisive woma...