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Join Us! : Integrating Gender Perspectives - 2026 EnPax Conference

Sep 4, 2025 | Gender Interest Group

The five core themes for the 4th EnPAx Conference (in Ottawa) have been set - how will our Gender Interest Group ensure gender is in…

Colombia: Empowering Women and Protecting the Planet: Resilient Coffee Production in La Celia, Colombia

Jul 21, 2025
Sainsbury's

Sainsbury’s and Finlays have partnered to launch a dedicated roast & ground product sourced directly from the lush, rolling hills of La Celia – a…

La erosión de la infraestructura estadounidense en temas relacionados con medio ambiente, género y construcción de paz.

Jul 17, 2025 | Emily Sample y Nick Zuroski

Hace un año, Marisa Ensor esbozó la creciente codificación del campo de la construcción de paz ambiental y sus reconocidas intersecciones con la raza, el…

The Erosion of U.S. Infrastructure for the Environmental, Gender, and Peacebuilding Fields

Jul 17, 2025 | Emily Sample and Nick Zuroski

A year ago, Marisa Ensor outlined the increasing codification of the environmental peacebuilding field and its well-recognized intersections with race, gender, and age. In this…

Kenya: Project Manager - Integrated County Energy Planning (INEP)

Jul 15, 2025 | Practical Action

OUR AIMS

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Our…

Kenya: Project Officer, Gender, Disability & Social Inclusion (Integrated County Energy Planning)

Jul 15, 2025 | Practical Action

OUR AIMS

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Our…

Kenya: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer

Jul 15, 2025 | Practical Action

OUR AIMS

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Our…

Kenya: Project Officer - Integrated County Energy Planning (INEP)

Jul 15, 2025 | Practical Action

OUR AIMS

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Our…

Rwanda: Project Manager

Jul 15, 2025 | Mennonite Central Committee

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches. MCC is a global, nonprofit organization that strives to share God’s love and compassion for…

Does Nature Love Us Back?

Jul 14, 2025 | Astrid Peraza
Think Landscape - Global Landscapes Forum

When you ask young environmentalists if they love nature, they usually raise their hands in agreement. 

But what if they are asked if nature loves them…

Gender, Climate and Conflict: Women Building Resilience in Bangladesh’s Fragile Zones

Jul 12, 2025 | Major Shajeda Akter Moni
Daily Sun

Following June 2024’s flash floods, when over 2.1 million Sylhet and Sunamganj inhabitants lost all, they had, Shaharima Sharna emerged. A LoGIC community mobiliser, she…

DRC: Expert en analyse intersectionnelle et intégration du genre dans les approches programmatiques

Jul 11, 2025 | Interpeace

1.     Présentation d’Interpeace et du programme

Interpeace est une organisation internationale de consolidation de la paix qui soutient des initiatives de consolidation de la paix menées localement…

Bangladesh: Climate Change Threatens Women’s Health

Jul 11, 2025 | Anaya Malik
EMJ

Climate change is severely affecting the physical and psychological health of reproductive-age women living in Bangladesh’s coastal communities, according to a new study. The research,…

Colombia: The Peace Deal that Put Women First: What Colombia Taught the World

Jul 10, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

“We did not want peace to be made for us. We wanted to be the peacemakers,” says Marina Gallego. She works with Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres (Women’s…

Ecuador: In Ecuador’s Rainforest, Women Gather to Defend the Amazon With Law—and Sisterhood

Jul 4, 2025 | Latin American Post
Latin American Post

Forty Indigenous leaders, lawyers, and organizers journeyed deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon last week, not for protest or spectacle, but to build a transnational legal…

Africa: African Women Are Key to Fighting Climate Change: These Are the Green Skills They Will Need

Jun 30, 2025 | Ogechi Adeola, Innocent Ngare, and Olaniyi Evans
The Conversation

Women are an important and often underutilised human resource in Africa. They’ve faced many problems historically. Limited access to land, finance, education and decision-making platforms…

Georgia: Peace Trailblazer: “Young Women Are not just Participants in Peacebuilding – We Are its Pulse”

Jun 30, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

Eleonora Tchania (26) is the co-founder and researcher of the youth peace network 16th Element and Projects Coordinator at the Center for Peace and Civic…

Colombia: Women in Colombia Pioneer Coca Leaf Ink, Turning Stigma into Opportunity

Jun 30, 2025 | Darvin Salamanca
Colombia One

Colombian designers Mónica Suárez and Daniela Rubio run Ginger Blonde, a graphic design and visual communication studio pioneering the use of coca leaves as a…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Women Are Still Fighting: Inside the Fight for Rights Under Taliban

Jun 27, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

Just four years ago, a woman in Afghanistan could technically decide to run for President, attend university, or play sports.

Today, none of that is possible.…

Global: Dismantling Barriers to Women's Leadership in Building Peace

Jun 25, 2025 | UN OHCHR
UN OHCHR

“Peace needs to be inclusive and requires the participation of every citizen of society, not only half of it. Neglecting women from peacebuilding efforts misses…

Call for Abstracts: Symposium on the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus

Jun 24, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and University of Ottawa

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for presentations to be delivered at a one-day…

Cyprus: The Learning Refuge: How Women-Led Community Efforts Help Refugees Resettle in Cyprus

Jun 23, 2025 | Suzan Ilcan and Seçil Daǧtaș
The Conversation

Since 2015, the Republic of Cyprus (ROC) has seen a steady rise in migrant arrivals and asylum applications, primarily from people from Middle Eastern and African countries like Syria, the…

Brazil: The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

Jun 21, 2025 | Katie Surma
Inside Climate News

It was an audacious moment. During a recent government hearing, allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro berated Brazil’s environment and climate minister, telling Marina Silva she…

Building a Climate-Resilient Viet Nam: Strengthening Women’s Role in Agriculture and Leadership

Jun 20, 2025 | Caroline Nyamayemombe and ITO Naoki
UN Women

As one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, Viet Nam is facing an escalating climate crisis. Rising sea levels and increasingly severe disasters…

Weaving Self-Governance and Harmony with Mother Earth: Proposal of Iku Indigenous Women of Colombia for Building Environmental Peace

Jun 18, 2025 | Yeimy Alejandra Izquierdo Cujar and Natalia Jiménez Galindo

Voices from the Iku Indigenous women of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.

Colombian Indigenous women can be part of the global progress advancing…

Tejiendo Autogobierno y Armonía con la Madre Tierra: Propuesta de las mujeres indígenas Iku de Colombia para la Construcción de la Paz Ambiental

Jun 18, 2025 | Yeimy Alejandra Izquierdo Cujar y Natalia Jiménez Galindo

Voces de las mujeres indígenas Iku de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

Las mujeres indígenas colombianas pueden ser parte del progreso global que promueve…

Kenya: Terms of Reference (ToR): Documentation of Women’s Stories, Photography, and Videography

Jun 13, 2025
ActionAid

ActionAid Australia supports climate resilience and women’s leadership projects through local partners. In Kenya, the GRACC project promotes gender-responsive approaches to climate change, especially in…

Syria: Research Analyst, Women’s Political Participation in Syria

Jun 11, 2025
European Institute of Peace

We are looking for a Research Analyst to support the Institute’s Conflict Justice and Reconciliation (CJR) and Gender and Peacemaking (GPM) team.
You will

Under the strategic direction of the Institute’s Conflict Justice…

Kenya: Consultant: Training on Green Transformation, Gender Mainstreaming, Climate Resilient and Sustainable Financing

Jun 10, 2025
Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust

The objective of this consultancy is to facilitate training to the staff of the selected Financial Service Providers (FSPs) on Agri-value chain, gender lens investing/gender…

Latin America: How a Network of Women in Latin America Transformed Safe, Self-Managed Abortions

Jun 8, 2025 | Marta Martínez and Liana Simstrom
WUSF

In November 1990, more than 3,000 women descended on the sleepy beach town of San Bernardo del Tuyú, Argentina, for what was becoming a legendary…