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Myanmar: Myanmar Junta’s Coup Gives Greenlight to Timber Traffickers

Aug 17, 2021 | Irrawaddy

Timber logging usually takes a break in the monsoon. Even smugglers halt their activities from mid-May to early October to avoid the rainy season. However,…

Register Now for the Course "Climate Change, Peace and Security: Understanding Climate-Related Security Risks Through an Integrated Lens"

Aug 17, 2021 | UN CC: e-Learn

Climate change is considered by many as among the greatest risks for peace and security in the 21st century. As the planet’s temperature rises, extended droughts,…

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…

Nigeria: New Rice Scheme to Engage 1000 Women, Youths

Aug 17, 2021 | Gilbert Ekugbe

Over 1000 women and youths are expected to benefit from a new rice initiative (wet season) aimed at boosting rice production in the country post…

Communications Officer

Aug 16, 2021 | Intersex Asia

Intersex Asia (IA) is recruiting a Communications Officer to join our team. This is an amazing opportunity to work with inspiring intersex leaders who started…

Somalia: MERL Advisor for Gender and Social Inclusion

Aug 16, 2021 | Gender Resources Inc

Gender Resources Inc (GRI) is a women-owned small business based in San Francisco, California that leads international programs to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment…

Sudan: Women, Peacebuilding, and Environmental Services Project Coordinator

Aug 16, 2021 | UN Women

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) mandate provides support that enhances national capacity and ownership to enable…

South Sudan: NGO Forum Safeguarding, Gender & Inclusion Adviser

Aug 16, 2021 | Concern Worldwide

The South Sudan NGO Forum is a member organisation, supporting the operations of over 100 International NGOs and 400 National NGOs providing humanitarian, development and…

Water Wars: How Water Shortages Are Brewing Wars

Aug 16, 2021 | Sandy Milne, BBC

Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts.

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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

Aug 9, 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…

South Africa: Women Miners in South Africa Break Barriers with Mentors' Help

Aug 9, 2021 | Linda Givetash and Zaheer Cassim

The mining industry has long been one of South Africa’s largest sectors, but women are still a minority in its workforce. Now, a group called…

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…

New Global Initiative: Transforming Gender Norms in Land and Resource Rights

Aug 9, 2021 | Arwen Bailey

When Rosario’s husband died, her life was turned upside down. Not only did she lose her life and business partner and the father of her…

A Decade in Review: What It Means to Be a Woman in South Africa

Aug 9, 2021 | Victoria O’Regan and Sandisiwe Shoba

Researchers say not much has changed in the past decade regarding land rights for South African women. According to Dr Thandi Ngcobo, CEO and founder…

Liberia: Victims of Liberian Gold Mine Disaster See Groundbreaking Complaint against Development Banks Accepted

Aug 9, 2021 | Global News Network

In a precedent-setting case, more than 10,000 people harmed by the New Liberty Gold Mine in Liberia have had a complaint accepted against the German…

Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Mali: Birthday Blues or Renewed Hope?

Aug 2, 2021 | Maelle Salzinger

Mali’s past efforts to implement the Women, Peace and Security Agenda have been criticized for their lack of implementation and failure to reach women in…

DRC: Hard to Breathe: Gold Mining Damages Miners, Forests

Jul 31, 2021 | Noella Nyirabihogo, Global Press Journal

Mining has ravaged the soil that locals had used to farm. So instead, they join the hunt for gold. And the consequences continue to mount…

Mali: Building Resilience to Conflict and Climate Change in Mali

Jul 30, 2021 | People in Need

Rising temperatures, coupled with decreases in annual rainfall, granivorous bird attacks, armed conflict between the Malian Armed Forces and radical jihadists groups, the COVID-19 pandemic,…

These 550 Kenyan Women Are Saving a Forest

Jul 30, 2021 | Peyton Fleming

One of around a half-dozen semi-nomadic tribes in the vast drylands of northern Kenya, the family spent years shifting locations to find water and grazing…

Yemen: Conflict and Economic Collapse in War-Torn Yemen Worsening Hunger Crisis

Jul 28, 2021 | Lisa Schlein, Voice of America

The World Food Program warns Yemen's already alarming hunger crisis is worsening due to ongoing conflict and a rapidly declining economy that are sending food…

2021 Risk Award Recognizes Vietnamese Women Fighting Climate Change

Jul 28, 2021 | UNDRR

A mangrove restoration project in Vietnam which combines building the resilience of a disaster-prone coastal community with risk-themed theatre was announced today as the winner…

Don’t Blame Men for the Climate Crisis – We Should Point the Finger at Corporations

Jul 27, 2021 | Arwa Mahdawi

Sorry, boys, but it’s all your fault. Melting ice caps, flash floods, rising sea levels: men are to blame for the lot of it. Please don’t drown the…

Women, Peace, and Security: Moving Implementation Forward

Jul 23, 2021 | Joan Johnson-Freese

What will it take for the key national security agencies in Washington to prioritize the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) framework, rather than just pay…

Women, Peace, and Security: Moving Implementation Forward

Jul 23, 2021 | War on the Rocks

What will it take for the key national security agencies in Washington to prioritize the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) framework, rather than just pay…

Spain: Consultancy for the Research and Learning Project – Gender and Climate Justice

Jul 12, 2021 | Oxfam Intermón

Oxfam focuses its activities on providing a comprehensive response to poverty, working cohesively in the four areas that constitute its identity: development cooperation, humanitarian action,…