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Bangladeshi Women’s Leadership in Water Governance

Oct 16, 2021

Women in Bangladesh play a crucial role in collecting water, often bearing the brunt of physical labor and household chores. Despite women and girls playing…

How Can Climate Considerations Be Better Integrated into the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda?

Oct 15, 2021 | Adriana Abdenur, Mayesha Alam, Adam Day, Cristal Downing, and Beatrice Mosello

As the impacts of climate change become more clear—starkly outlined this August by the International Panel on Climate Change’s latest report—responses to them will require an…

Focus on Women and Girls Matters as Disaster Risks Shift

Oct 14, 2021 | Riyanti Djalante and Mohammad Naciri

At its heart, ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response has a simple but visionary objective to reduce disaster risks and losses in lives. …

The Women’s Agenda for Climate Crisis

Oct 14, 2021

80% of the world’s resources are looked after, consolidated by women across the globe. If that is not an agenda that Women Peace and Security…

Educating Girls: The Overlooked Solution to Climate Change

Oct 12, 2021 | T. Shawn Taylor

Addressing a global challenge as complex as climate change demands a full suite of solutions and actors, but one powerful intervention is widely overlooked: educating…

Analysis: The Lack of Diversity in Climate-Science Research

Oct 6, 2021 | Ayesha Tandon

Publishing research in respected journals, such as Nature or Science, is a key way for academics to share their findings with the scientific community and beyond.

A researcher’s publication…

Women, Peace, and What is Security?

Oct 4, 2021 | Phoebe Donnelly, Gretchen Baldwin, Masooma Rahmaty, and Phesheya Nxumalo

The past year has raised many questions for those focused on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, as well as highlighting issues that feminist…

Addressing Masculinities and Gender Stereotypes to Prevent Violent Extremism and Terrorism

Sep 30, 2021 | Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga

Fifteen years ago, the General Assembly unanimously adopted the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS), which has served as the backbone for the efforts of States to…

The Imperative of Climate Adaption for Africa: Building Resilience Across Societies in an Inclusive Manner

Sep 30, 2021

Empowered women and girls have the capacity to build resilient communities using local solutions to climate change to safeguard lives and ensure a sustainable future…

Women and Climate Justice: It’s Time to Act

Sep 24, 2021 | Leocadia I. Zak and Susan Kidd

The headlines are clear. Human suffering from a changing climate is escalating and projections show clearly how it will worsen. Equally clear is the need…

It Makes Economic Sense for Women to Lead the Fight Against the Climate Crisis

Sep 22, 2021 | Oladosu Adenike

For the first time ever, the United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world, passed a resolution recognising access…

Climate Action Must Advance the Rights of Women and Girls

Sep 22, 2021 | Baroness Sugg

As an advocate for gender equality, I believe the most urgent change needed for women and girls is strong action on the climate crisis.

Today is…

Environmental Justice: Why Civil Rights and Protecting the Planet Go Hand-in-hand

Sep 15, 2021

As the global ecological crisis impacts ever-more lives, it is becoming clearer that we cannot talk about cimate change, pollution or biodiversity loss without talking…

Federal Election 2021: Gender-Based Violence is an Issue We Should All Prioritize

Sep 8, 2021 | Nancy Marie Ross and Stephanie Zubriski

National strategies to end gender-based violence, public activism movements like #MeToo and One Billion Rising and the continued use of tough-on-crime policies have failed to reduce rates of…

Conflict in the Sahel Likely to Worsen as Climate Change Impacts Increase

Sep 7, 2021 | Steve Killelea

Currently there isn’t a lot of good news coming out of the Sahel, the area in Africa that borders the Saharan desert to the north,…

To Address Climate Change, Address Gender Inequity

Sep 3, 2021 | Elizabeth Chun Hye Lee

Hurricane Ida has devastated communities in Louisiana, leaving many without electricity during one of the hottest months of the year. Because of a lack of…

It's Time to Let Young People Help Shape Climate Policy

Sep 1, 2021 | Jessica Cooke

The climate crisis is one of the defining injustices of our time, and young people will live with the consequences for the longest. It’s no…

The Climate Crisis Is Worse for Women. Here’s Why.

Aug 24, 2021 | Lauren Jackson

The world’s leading climate scientists issued a landmark report this month with their clearest clarion call to date: The climate crisis is here, it’s humanity’s fault,…

Amplify: Elevating Women’s Voices is Key to our Success in Tackling Climate Change

Aug 20, 2021 | Sierra Bien

After Climate Change Forced Her to Miss School, Meet the Activist Fighting Back

Aug 20, 2021 | Joe McCarthy

Aryaana Khan would rather not spend her days thinking about how humans are destroying the environment.

But no matter where she goes, the climate crisis has…

International Response to Haiti's Earthquake Must Avoid 2010 Mistakes

Aug 19, 2021 | Brian Concannon and Kathleen Bergin

As the death toll and displacement from Saturday’s earthquake in Haiti mounts, the United States must urgently mobilize to provide help. But we must, just…

Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…

How Can Empowering Women & Girls Help End World Hunger?

Aug 18, 2021 | Leah Rodriguez

World hunger reached a five-year high in 2020 and a third of the world population — 2.3 billion people — did not have access to adequate nutrition. 

Conflict,…

Malala: I Survived the Taliban. I Fear for My Afghan Sisters.

Aug 17, 2021 | Malala Yousafzai

In the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is dangerously close to slipping…

Repairing the Damage to Global Food Systems From COVID-19

Aug 12, 2021 | World Politics Review

According to a United Nations report released last month, just under one-tenth of the global population was undernourished in 2020, up from 8.4 percent in 2019.…

5 Ways We Can Address Land Inequality and Women’s Land Rights

Aug 11, 2021 | Mike Taylor and Gabriela Bucher

Land. It is a commodity like no other. We live on it. We grow from it. We drink from it and build our futures upon…

You Can’t Talk About Gender Equality Without Talking About Climate Change

Aug 11, 2021 | Angela Priestley

Gender equality gains both locally and globally have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 18 months, but that could be nothing…

Gender Equality: The Catalyst to Addressing the Triple Crisis Facing Latin American and the Caribbean

Aug 10, 2021 | UNDP

In the first half of 2021, a Feminist Action Coalition for Climate Justice was established as part of the Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality…

Climate Change, Water Security, and Women: A Study on Water Boiling in South Tarawa, Kiribati

Aug 10, 2021 | Asian Development Bank

This publication summarizes the results of a household survey on water boiling practices in South Tarawa, Kiribati, and outlines implications for the design of water…

Women in Rural Agriculture Stricken by Climate Change Effects

Aug 9, 2021 | Onke Ngcuka

Climate change is not gender neutral. As developing countries bear the brunt of climate change in the form of extreme weather conditions such as droughts…