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Coming Out! Gender Diversity in the Food System
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In the current global context, discrimination is used as a tool to preserve and support authoritarian and far-right political movements. Immigrants and refugees are denied their legal right to asylum,...
Letter from Buganda: Let Us Rise Together and Stand for Her Land
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Buganda is a major subnational kingdom in central Uganda. While over 10 million people live and work on land owned by the kingdom, the land authority known as Buganda Land Board (BLB) records just 250...
Women Help Feed the World. Why Can't They Own Land?
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In rural areas around the world, the face of a farmer is increasingly a woman’s. From the paddy terraces of Asia to the maize fields of sub-Saharan Africa, she will till, plant, water, and harvest...
How the VGGT Have Changed Rural Women's Lives: Key Strategies and Innovations Towards Gender Equality
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The purpose of the side event is to showcase key strategies and innovations that are contributing to gender equality in agriculture and land tenure in the context of the VGGT. It will present how coll...
Around the World, Young People Are Driving Climate Innovation
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2019 will be remembered as the year young people took to the streets around the world to fight for their future.Inspired by Greta Thunberg and other outspoken teens, millions of young people have been...
Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity
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In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the participants to draw the picture of a farmer with whom they work. All but one of them draw male figures....
The Next Big Opportunity for Gender Equality?
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The movement for a circular economy has focused on the environmental and business impacts of circularity, with far less interest (from researchers and policymakers) dedicated to its social implication...
Climate-Justice and Gender-Justice Have to Go Hand-in-Hand
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“We demand that the new European Commission secures equal rights for everyone – and that they work hard to smash the gender-gap, both inside and outside the European Union. Because the young girls...
Colombian Women on the Frontline: the Role of Women Human Rights Defenders Working on Peace
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Claudia Mejía Duque and Katerin Jurado Díaz from Sisma Mujer, and Maria Eugenia Cruz Alarcón from the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders are leading figures for the protection of...
Fishing for Equality and Sustainability
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In a wooden boat on the estuary of the Densu River in Ghana, Cecila dips a salinator into the water and declares that the salinity is only two parts per thousand. With a small frown, she runs another...
Liberia: Denied for Decades, Women Lead Land Rights Campaign in Bong
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Gormah Mulbah and her five children were thrown out of their home last year after her husband died. Her late husband’s family was angry she refused to marry his younger brother. While she thought al...
Empowering Africa's Women Farmers
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More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in agriculture. Yet the region’s women farmers often reap a meager harvest, not because of inclement weather or poor soil quali...
Counterpart's Approach to Women, Peace and Security
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International development is increasingly shaped by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV). The World Bank projects that by 2030, the number of countries affected by FCV will be home to 46% of the w...
Land Reform Has Failed the Women of South Africa
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The government’s plan to combat the plight of women’s landlessness has been shown to have borne little fruit thus far, when the report of the High Level Panel Advisory on Land Reform revealed in...
For Bosnian Women, No Justice—and No Seats
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Both men and women suffer the consequences of wars, but conflicts and humanitarian disasters around the world tend to disproportionately affect women and children. Additionally, women’s voices are r...
Custom, Caste System Deny Land Rights to Asian Women, Indigenous People
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Women, lower-caste and indigenous people across Asia are failing to benefit from land reform laws because of custom and deep-rooted social biases, land rights activists said on Wednesday.Globally, ind...
The Hidden Work of Post-Conflict Recovery
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Sri Lanka 2011. It is two years since a brutal civil war ended, with the UN reporting tens of thousands of civilians killed in the final months of battle, mostly by the state military. In the formerl...
Women, Peace and Security and the Prevention of Violence: Reflections from Civil Society in the Context of the Fourth Swiss National Action Plan 1325
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This report is the result of extensive desk-based research, interviews, and continuous discussions with civil society organizations (CSOs) and experts on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Preventing...
This October on Agrilinks: The Role of Gender in Agriculture
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Gender influences which crops are grown, which animals are raised, and which technologies are used. It influences how households earn a livelihood and manage risk, what children eat and how they are c...
Taking SDG 5 (Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment) Seriously in the Forestry Sector
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In the lead-up to the 25th IUFRO World Congress being held in Curitiba, Brazil from 29 Sept. to 6 Oct., a group of scientists from around the world conducted an assessment of the impact of addressing...
From Commitment to Action: Inclusion of Women's Voices in Commonwealth Priorities for Gender Equality
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Women from across the Commonwealth met in advance of the 12 Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting (12WAMM) on 16 and 17 September to discuss policy recommendations to accelerate national, regional...
Reclaiming the WPS Agenda: it's Time to Talk About the Elephant in the Room
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Displacement levels in Bangladesh as a result of the influx of Rohingya refugees has had a detrimental impact upon the local environment. The arrival of some 700,000 refugees to a country already mar...
Advancing Women's Roles and Rights Amid Global Challenges
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By many indicators the status of women’s roles and rights globally are under threat. In conflict resolution processes, mediators and negotiators are rarely women, and women’s rights are insufficie...
Gendered Effects of the Conflicts in the South Caucasus Region and Women's Priorities for Peace
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Addressing the multitude of problems which are affecting the South Caucasus requires a gender- and conflict-sensitive approach from all relevant actors, including civil society, state parties and inte...
Building a Resilient Future
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The purpose of the Day is to reinforce the focus on resilience and the commitments expected to be made at the Climate Action Summit. It will feature innovative, interactive and participatory sessions...
Developing an Environmental Peace Diplomacy
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The 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals may seem lofty, or perhaps tangentially related to peace work, but the author argues that these goals are germane to peace building. It is by walking...
Women, Peace & Security Reclaim Prevention!
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This conference intends to raise awareness and prompt discussion regarding the future of WPS (Wo- men, Peace & Security), and Switzerland’s role in shaping that future. We also want to look c...
European Commission Webinar: Women's Land Rights Matter
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The webinar will provide an overview of the main challenges and opportunities surrounding the promotion of women’s land rights as well as present what the EU is doing to promote women’s land right...
Gender Analysis Approach to Analyzing Gender Differentiated Impacts of Coping Strategies to Climate Change (Chapter in "Handbook of Climate Change Resilience")
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Provision of safe water and fuel for the household is important Practical Gender Needs (PGNs) of women, which in turn are crucial to enable them to meet their Strategic Gender Needs (SGNs) of educatio...
Gender Perspective on Water Use and Management in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Melamchi Watershed Area, Nepal
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Increasing trend of the burden of household water management is exemplified by recent literature as the effect of climate change on women. The current study explores a gender role in household water m...