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How Often Does the UN Security Council Use a Gender Lens? Not Often Enough
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The WPS agenda was instituted in October 2000 via the unanimous passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, which marked the first formal acknowledgement that armed conflict af...
Gender-Transformative Approaches in Agricultural Skills Development
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Only using mainstreaming and sensitisation interventions in agricultural programmes is not enough if we want to tap into the economic potential of women‘s contribution to agricultural productivity....
Overcoming Challenges to Women's Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding
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Join us for a workshop to challenge our thinking and reframe how we approach women’s participation in peacebuilding.Formal resistance and implicit bias by those who hold power in politics, instituti...
Guatemalan Women Force Development Bank to Investigate Gender Policy Violations
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After a complaint filed by women's groups from Ixquisis, Guatemala, the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) has started an investigation on several policy violations, amongst which the Gender Equali...
Ghana Needs a Grievance Mechanism to Secure Women's Land Rights
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From farms to towns, women are a major provider of food and food security for their families, but women in half of the world still struggle to access their equal land and property rights in spite of...
Gender Equality in African Agriculture: An Innovation Imperative
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President Barack Obama once highlighted the importance of leveraging the talents of Africa’s women using the analogy of a football match. He pointed out that any team that decides to only put half i...
Sudanese Women Urge Gender Balance in Country's Peace Process
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Sudanese women were influential in the widespread protests that led to the military overthrow of the country's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in April. Six months later, they find themselves once...
Gendered Peace in Context
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The Gender Dimensions of Social Conflict, Armed Violence and Peacebuilding project's international consortium, with prominent speakers from Indonesia, Nigeria, and Switzerland, will gather during the...
Patriarcy, Gender and Peace
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Patriarchy, militarism, and neoliberalism are three inter-related causes that push us all towards more conflict. If we want peace, then we need to change the mindset.Moderated by WILPF’s Secretary-G...
To Give Peace a Chance in Colombia, It's Time to Protect Women Land Defenders
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More than three years have passed since the government of Colombia signed a peace agreement with FARC rebels that promised to end the longest internal armed conflict in the Americas. A durable peace,...
To Give Peace a Chance in Colombia, It's Time to Protect Women Land Defenders
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More than three years have passed since the government of Colombia signed a peace agreement with FARC rebels that promised to end the longest internal armed conflict in the Americas. A durable peace,...
The Road to Women's Economic Empowerment: Do Women (and Men) Prefer On or Off the Farm?
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Improving women’s economic empowerment continues to be the focus of a wide range of development projects, ranging from vocational trainings to microcredit to cash and asset transfers. In rural farmi...
Language Matters: The Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Japan and South Korea
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Nineteen years ago today, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325—a foundational resolution to the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. Since the adoption of Resol...
Men Sweeping? Women Inheriting? Kenya Shakes Up Gender Roles
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It’s early morning and Moses Njiru 43, has an array of household chores lined up before heading to his job as a cattle broker. Dressed in gray trousers and a white undershirt, Njiru starts by sweep...
Tanzania's Female Parliamentarians to Mainstream Gender in Climate Adaptation
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Climate change has been described as a wicked problem, with complexities, feedback loops and tipping points that can cause damage in the most undeserving of places. Across Tanzania, the climate crisis...
What's Lurking in Your Value Chain? Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture
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Please join Agrilinks and the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program on the eve of Halloween for a webinar on gender dimensions in agriculture.This webinar will explore the costs of g...
Plenary: African Women in Sustainable Business and Environmental Management
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Women and men often use and manage resources in different ways, while also observing and experiencing degradation differently. Indeed, in many countries, women traditionally have had the responsibilit...
Africa in Transition: The Role of Women in Peace and Security
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Please join the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Maternal Health Initiative, in partnership with The Population Institute, to discuss holistic approaches to complex secu...
Want to Empower Women in Agricultural Systems? Engaging Men Is Part of the Equation
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Women’s experiences of gender-based violence, as well as imbalances of power between men and women, have a profound impact on women’s ability to participate in agricultural systems, to make decisi...
Climate Change Reinforces the World's Inequalities
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As drought, flooding and fires lay claim to headlines and landscapes across the world, and as countries and cities grapple with the cost of it all, the highest price is already being paid — by those...
Privatization of War: A New Challenge for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
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Since the end of the Cold War, the outsourcing of military and security by armed forces activities has shifted from the exception to the rule. Moreover, this growth goes hand in hand with a regulatory...
Keeping the Minutes or Leading the Talk? Women's Experiences in Peace Negotiations
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In its resolution 1325, “Women, Peace, and Security”, the Security Council of the United Nations for the first time acknowledged that gender matters in peace and security. The resolution, that was...
The Global Pushback on Women's Rights: The State of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
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By many indicators, the global status of commitments to gender equality, including of efforts to prevent and end conflict, is under threat. Despite recognition that the level of gender equality can be...
A Woman's Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
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The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of thes...
Joint Statement on Promoting Women, Peace and Security in ASEAN
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WE, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (hereinafter referred to as “ASEAN”), namely Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Re...
ASEAN's Transformative Journey: Role of Women in Peace and Security
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ASEAN has embarked on exploring how to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the region. It has recently organised “an inaugural intersectoral dialogue on WPS issues in the ASEAN r...
Operationalizing a Feminist Foreign Policy: Recommendations for the US Government
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This document focuses on how to operationalize a new feminist foreign policy within the US context. First, it sets out the existing international and national legal and policy frameworks and the simpl...
A Roundtable Discussion on Women, Peace, and Security in West Africa: Coalition Building and Collaboration in Cross-Border Areas
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To unpack experiences, challenges, and successes in women’s grassroots movements for peace, PartnersGlobal is convening a roundtable of experts and practitioners in the Women, Peace, and Security (W...
The Paradox of Plenty and Its Impact on Gendered Policy
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Access to and distribution of natural resources are often at the root of violent conflict. Yet it is only over the last few decades that international institutions and scholars have started to pay att...
Women in Sustainable Agriculture National Conference
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Every few years, a regional women’s network takes the lead in planning a national conference for women in sustainable agriculture (WISA).More than 400 people from across the U.S. attend, including a...