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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…

Environmental Peacebuilding Awards: Call for Submissions

Sep 23, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association sponsors awards for leaders, practitioners, and researchers. The Association is seeking nominations for awards to…

Zambia: Study Finds Gender Gap in Benefits of Plant Clinics

Sep 22, 2021 | Ijeoma Ukazu

Researchers assessed whether male and female farmers benefit equally from plant clinicsBoth achieve positive outcomes but these are disproportionately greater in men, the study foundWomen…

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…

Harnessing Drones, Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence to Root out Land Mines

Sep 21, 2021 | Kevin Krajick, Columbia Climate School

Armed with a newly minted undergraduate degree in geology, Jasper Baur is in the mining business. Not those mines where we extract metals or minerals;…

Support the “Assist a Scholar” Campaign to Facilitate Participation in Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 20, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

As we prepare for the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, we are working hard to ensure the event is accessible to a diverse, global…

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…

Solidarity and Support Programme Officer on Environmental and Climate Justice

Sep 14, 2021 | UAF-Africa

The Solidarity & Support Officer will support the programme to ensure that time urgent financial and technical resources are awarded to feminist and women’s human…

Guatemala: Especialista en Género, Equidad e Inclusión Social, I-WASH

Sep 14, 2021 | CARE

El Especialista en Equidad de Género e Inclusión Social - GESI liderará la implementación de la evaluación de equidad, género e inclusión social y las…

South Sudan: Gender and Peacebuilding National Consultant

Sep 14, 2021 | UN Women

Under the supervision of the Deputy Country Representative and in close collaboration with the Under Secretary in the Ministry of Peacebuilding, where this position is…

Tunisia: Women Peace and Security Programme Assistant

Sep 14, 2021 | UN Women

Under the overall supervision of the UN Women Country Representative and direct supervision of the Women Peace and Security Analyst, the WPS Programme Assistant works…

Ecuador: Consultoría para la Elaboración de Propuesta Técnica sobre Género, Cambio Climático y Seguridad Alimentaria

Sep 14, 2021 | UN Women

La entidad de las Naciones Unidas para la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las mujeres, ONU Mujeres, basándose en la visión de igualdad consagrada…

Australia: Emergency WASH Gender Advisor

Sep 14, 2021 | CARE Australia

The Emergency WASH Gender Advisor is responsible for ensuring a quality, gender-responsive approach to CARE’s emergency WASH. The role is hosted by CARE Australia on…

Colombia: Women building dreams: Sustainable livelihoods on Colombia's Pacific coast

Sep 13, 2021 | Lia Valero

Afro-Colombian women on the Pacific coast have faced violence, conflict and the ecological fallout of mining and illegal logging. Now they're working together to protect…

DRC: DR Congo President Seeks Review of Mining Contracts with China

Sep 11, 2021 | Al Jazeera

Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has called for a review of mining contracts signed with China in 2008…

Yemen: As Conflict Drags on, ‘No Quick Wins’ – UN Envoy

Sep 10, 2021 | UN News

The complexities of the years-long war in Yemen “multiply as the conflict drags on”, the country’s new UN envoy told the Security Council on Friday,…

Ethiopia: A New Year’s Call for Peace and End to Tigray’s Multifaceted War

Sep 10, 2021 | The Africa Report

Our country Ethiopia is facing a multifaceted crisis in Tigray, Amhara, South and West Oromia, Somali, Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People of…

Yemen: As Conflict Drags on, ‘No Quick Wins’ – UN Envoy

Sep 10, 2021 | UN News

The complexities of the years-long war in Yemen “multiply as the conflict drags on”, the country’s new UN envoy told the Security Council on Friday,…

Ethiopia: A New Year’s Call for Peace and End to Tigray’s Multifaceted War

Sep 10, 2021 | The Africa Report

A call for peace by Local Civil Society Organizations of Ethiopia.

Liberia: UNDP Supports Gender Stakeholders' Conference On Women's Political Participation

Sep 9, 2021 | All Africa

Monrovia — Delegates at a gender stakeholders' conference are reviewing and strengthening an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on women's political participation, signed between the…

Afghanistan/Iran: Iran-Afghanistan Water Dispute to Test Tehran's Ties to Taliban

Sep 9, 2021 | Shabnam von Hein, Deutsche Welle

An old dispute over water rights could be the first test of Iran's planned pragmatic cooperation with the Taliban. Without a functioning environmental agency, it's…

Nigeria: Obi- Advocacy on Women’s Rights Will Address Gender-Based Violence

Sep 9, 2021 | This Day Live

Ugo Aliogo and Loveth Chinagorom, engaged the Country Director, ActionAid Nigeria, Mrs. Ene Obi, on scaling public investments in agriculture, and the issues of gender-based…

Liberia: UNDP Supports Gender Stakeholders' Conference On Women's Political Participation

Sep 9, 2021 | All Africa

Monrovia — Delegates at a gender stakeholders' conference are reviewing and strengthening an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on women's political participation, signed between the…

Nigeria: Advocacy on Women’s Rights Will Address Gender-Based Violence

Sep 9, 2021 | This Day Live

Ugo Aliogo and Loveth Chinagorom, engaged the Country Director, ActionAid Nigeria, Mrs. Ene Obi, on scaling public investments in agriculture, and the issues of gender-based…

In a Watershed Year for Climate Change, the Commonwealth Secretary-General Calls for Urgent, Decisive and Sustained Climate Action

Sep 8, 2021 | Alison Kentish

London — This November, five years after signing the Paris Agreement and pledging to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with a…

Colombia: Exploring Illegal Mining in Colombia’s Amazon

Sep 8, 2021 | InSight Crime

As gold prices have skyrocketed, criminal groups once solely dedicated to the trafficking of drugs and arms have moved into illegal mining. The activity has…

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,…

Liberia: Land Authority Completes Land Survey, Present Deeds In Nimba County

Sep 7, 2021 | Prince Mulbah, Global News Network

The Liberia Land Authority, through its Corporate Service Session, has completed the survey and presentation of deeds for several tribal certificates of land situated in…