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Water Fetching Responsibilities Reveal Unequal Gender Dynamics: Elevates Need for Expansion of On-Site WASH Facilities
May 10, 2020
Women in low-income households have limited access to financial services and educational opportunities, which in turn restricts their ability to tap into the labor market…
Canada: Violence Against Indigenous Women During COVID-19 Sparks Calls for MMIWG Plan
May 10, 2020
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Teresa Wright, CBC
With reports of a sharp rise in violence against Indigenous women as COVID-19 restrictions keep families stuck in their homes, concerns are being raised about…
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Tells Us About Gender Equality
May 9, 2020
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Ann Linde and Arancha González Laya
Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care,…
Equality in a Post-Pandemic Era: Gender, COVID-19, Agriculture, and Climate Change
May 8, 2020
Globally, one in three women works in agriculture, which tends to be informal, low paid, and especially vulnerable to shocks. For example, when droughts and…
Former SIPRI Researcher Arthur H. Westing—In Memoriam
May 8, 2020
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SIPRI mourns the passing of former SIPRI expert Arthur H. Westing (United States), who died on 30 April 2020 at the age of 91.
The COVID-19 Response: What Has Women, Peace and Security Got to Do With it?
May 7, 2020
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Naomi Clugston, Michelle Spearing
The United Kingdom is one of the 25 countries deemed least vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of rising death tolls, a stretched National Health…
Plans to Prevent Future Pandemics Must Consider Gender Issues, Too (Commentary)
May 6, 2020
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Tyler Nuckols
As COVID-19 continues to wrack our lives, the topic of the illegal wildlife trade and its connection to the coronavirus has garnered recent headlines. Many organizations,…
Why Gender Should Be at the Heart of COVID Recovery
May 6, 2020
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Angela Kalisch
The tourism industry has been catapulted into a global emergency by COVID-19. After decades of stable growth, only temporarily interrupted by incidents of terrorism, pandemics…
Supporting Women Environmental Defenders in the Time of COVID-19
May 5, 2020
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Sara Vigil and Bernadette P. Resurrección
Both the feminist and environmental movements are amongst the most prominent challengers of this commodification. However, environmental defenders face discrimination, violence and high risks, especially women…
How COVID-19 Puts Women's Housing, Land, and Property Rights at Risk
May 4, 2020
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Victoria Stanley and Paul Prettitore
Around the world, land serves as a foundation for security, shelter, income and livelihoods. But rights to land are not equitably distributed to all. This…
Low-Income Households in Latin America More Likely to Burden Women with Responsibilities of Fetching Water
May 4, 2020
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Christian Borja-Vega and Jonathan Grabinsky
A recent publication in the health journal The Lancet makes a strong argument for how inequality could be an enabling factor in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that people living in poverty…
Bottom-Up Ideas about Gender Justice from Violent Contexts Need Greater Recognition in the International Women’s Rights Agenda
May 3, 2020
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Nicholas Pope and Julia Zulver
With the world reaching the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action to end gender inequality and the 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace,…
Opinion: In the Battle Against COVID-19, Women Make Somalia Stronger
May 1, 2020
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Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf
Brave health workers. Brilliant researchers. Responsible leaders. Solidarity. Around the world, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what makes us strong. But it also highlights what makes us fragile.
In…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: China Updates Disputed Sea Maps to Get Back at Vietnam
May 1, 2020
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Ralph Jennings, Voice of America
China has renamed scores of islets and underwater landforms in the South China Sea, a move some analysts say is intended to push back against…
What COVID-19 Tells Us About Gender Inequality in Latin America
May 1, 2020
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Eugene Zapata-Garesché and Luciana Cardoso
Mexico City – In the midst of social and economic unrest, the COVID-19 pandemic appears as an uninvited guest to an already crowded cocktail of…
Might Feminism Revive Arms Control? Why Greater Inclusion of Women in Nuclear Policy Is Necessary and How to Achieve It
Apr 29, 2020
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Marylia Hushcha
The link between gender and security has become a prominent issue in the public debate over the last decades. On the most basic level, it…
Reducing Post-Harvest Losses through Better Gender Integration
Apr 29, 2020
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Maria Jones, Ismat Ara Begum, Monjurul Alam, C.K. Saha, and Abdul Awal
Post-harvest management is an important, although less visible, step in ensuring a community’s food security. Poor post-harvest management reduces both the quantity and quality of…
Can Militant Groups Be Environmentalists?
Apr 29, 2020
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Kira Walker, World Politics Review
Competition over scarce natural resources is often a key driver of the tensions that fuel armed conflict in different corners of the world. Yet in…
Vietnam: Addressing Gender-Based Violence Alongside the COVID-19 Pandemic in Viet Nam
Apr 29, 2020
Quang Ninh Province, Viet Nam – The “Anh Duong” (Sunshine) House Shelter for the provision of essential services to survivors of violence against women and…
Women in Ukraine's Military: An Opportunity for Change
Apr 28, 2020
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Hannah Hrytsenko
While UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security urges countries to increase the participation of women in the military through a top-down approach, in…
Myanmar: Campaigners Call for Transparency in Myanmar Timber Trade after 850 Tons of Wood Seized
Apr 28, 2020
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Michael Tatarski, Mongabay
Earlier this month, Myanmar’s Information Ministry announced that the country’s Forest Department had seized nearly 850 tons of illegal timber between March 30 and April…
Guatemala: Tejiendo Paz Addresses Environmental Issues, Conflict and the Pandemic
Apr 28, 2020
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Janey Fugate
TOTONICAPAN, Guatemala — Wearing the brightly colored skirt typical of Maya women in the Western Highlands, Nicolasa Grasiela Checlan held up a baton with a…
India’s COVID–19 Gender Blind Spot
Apr 27, 2020
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Bansari Kamdar
The second most populous country in the world, India, has been under a nationwide lockdown since March 24, 2020 – one it intends to continue…
Indonesia: Conflict between Indonesian Villagers, Pulpwood Firm Flares up over Crop-Killing Drone
Apr 27, 2020
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Hans Nicholas Jong, Mongabay
Villagers in Sumatra accuse a pulpwood plantation company of using a drone to spray herbicide to kill their crops, calling it the latest in a…
Yemen: On the Frontline of War, Yemeni Women Are Building Peace
Apr 27, 2020
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Kira Walker
It was the third year of the war when Muna Luqman heard of a conflict over water in Al-Haymatain, a remote area of Yemen’s Taiz…
Africa: Triple Threat - Conflict, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
Apr 26, 2020
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Nontobeko Mlambo
The new coronavirus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than three million people worldwide – 31,000 in Africa by 26 April – with Egypt, South Africa,…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Oil-for-Budget War Reignites between Erbil and Baghdad
Apr 26, 2020
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Lawk Ghafuri, Rudaw
Having spent a year shirking its end of the oil-for-budget agreement with Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has said it is ready to hand…
Liberia: Gender Ministry’s Exempt During COVID-19 Lockdown, Increases Sex & Domestic Violence, Says Child Rights Activist
Apr 26, 2020
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Obediah Johnson, FPA
Monrovia – Liberian child rights activist, Satta Fatumata Sheriff has frowned on the decision by the George Weah—led government to close the Ministry of Gender, Children…
Africa: Triple Threat - Conflict, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
Apr 26, 2020
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Nontobeko Mlambo, AllAfrica
Johannesburg — The new coronavirus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than three million people worldwide – 31,000 in Africa by 26 April – with Egypt,…
Improve Gender Equality to Better our Island
Apr 25, 2020
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Lauren Swaddell
The Guam Green Growth Initiative was launched earlier this year, and dozens of leaders from the government, business, nonprofit and academic community came together to…