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Why More Women Should Be Included in the Leadership of Virunga National Park

Jun 6, 2019 | Judith Verweijen, Janvier Murairi, and Esther Marijnen

Since 2014, the number of female park guards serving in Virunga National Park, located in war-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been gradually…

27 Women Leading the Charge to Protect Our Environment

Jun 6, 2019 | Veronique Hyland, Naomi Rougeau and Julie Vandal

Scientists have called our current, climate change–threatened era the Anthropocene, but as the eco-economist Kate Raworth once joked, women are left out of the narrative…

Nigeria: Gender & Nutrition Officer

Jun 4, 2019 | Oxfam

 Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. Oxfam's…

Mozambique: Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Coordinator

Jun 4, 2019 | International Organization for Migration

Established in 1951, IOM is a Related Organization of the United Nations, and as the leading UN agency in the field of migration, works closely…

Call for Research Fellowships on Land and Gender under the “Network of Excellence for Land Governance in Africa (NELGA)”

Jun 4, 2019 | Network of Excellence for Land Governance in Africa (NELGA)

The DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) is a publicly funded, self-governing organisation of the institutions of higher education in Germany. It promotes international academic exchange…

Climate Change: Germany Pushes Climate Change as Security Risk

Jun 4, 2019 | Austin Davis, Deutsche Welle

Floods, drought and mass migration: all factors why Germany has made the UN's response to climate change its priority at the Security Council. But political…

Afghanistan: Greenhouses Could Hold the Key to Tackling Afghanistan’s Food Shortages

Jun 4, 2019 | ACTED

While Afghanistan continues to import a large proportion of its most basic food needs, ACTED is working in Samangan province to help rural women become…

Champions for Change: The Power of Women Peacemakers and Peacebuilders in Ukraine

Jun 3, 2019

In 2009, Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan sat in the United Nations Security Council when then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over a debate on…

Kenya: Consultancy on Gender and Youth Vulnerability in Kisumu and Homa Bay Counties, Kenya

May 31, 2019 | Practical Action

Practical Action is a global innovator, inspiring people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage. As an international…

Jordan: Womens Economic Empowerment Advisor

May 31, 2019 | CARE USA

CARE is a global humanitarian organization providing disaster relief to areas in crisis, while providing long-term solutions to poverty around the world.

CARE defines women’s economic…

Women's Land Rights: Shifting Power for Gender Equality

May 31, 2019 | Beth Roberts

Achieving gender equality requires a fundamental shift in the balance of power over resources. Globally, from urban financial centers to remote communities, from international bodies…

South Asia Needs to Adopt a Gender Mainstreaming Approach in Climate Policy

May 31, 2019 | Dhanasree Jayaram

The disproportionate impacts of environmental and climate change on women are being studied and documented worldwide. However, when it comes to addressing the gender gap…

Myanmar: Go Fish! But, Please, Do So Legally

May 30, 2019 | Kundhavi Kadiresan, Myanmar Times

The people of Myanmar love fish and both demand and consumption of fish is on the rise. On the one hand that’s good, because fish…

'I'll Keep Fighting': Philippine Women Keep Alive Memory of Sex Slave Horrors During World War II

May 30, 2019 | Regine Cabato

MANILA —  Rosa Henson, a survivor of wartime sexual slavery at the hands of Japanese forces, went public in 1992 with her story. She had no…

Gender Program Coordinator and Office Manager

May 25, 2019 | NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York

The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, is a non-profit corporation working to advance the human rights of women and girls worldwide…

Climate Change: How to Think about Global Warming and War

May 23, 2019 | Economist

No conflict occurs without leaders to give orders and soldiers to pull triggers. No atrocities are committed unless human beings choose to commit them.Nonetheless, future-gazers…

Chad/Mali: How Climate Change Can Fuel Wars

May 23, 2019

On the outskirts of Baga Sola, a small town in Chad not far from the border with Nigeria, is a refugee camp called Dar es Salaam.…

Liberia: ActionAid Trains 20 Journalists to Report Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

May 23, 2019 | Front Page Africa

Monrovia – In the wake of increased cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) across the country, 20 Liberian journalists have begun benefiting from a…

Kenya: Women’s Land Rights Programme Assistant

May 22, 2019 | Oxfam

Oxfam International (OI) is a confederation of 17 organizations working together with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to…

Kenya: Women’s Land Rights Programme Officer

May 22, 2019 | Oxfam

Oxfam International (OI) is a confederation of 17 organizations working together with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to…

Request for Consultants – Health, Hunger, Hardship, Her & MERL

May 22, 2019 | Project Concern International

Background on PCI

Founded in 1961, PCI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing health, ending hunger, overcoming hardship, and advancing women and girls around…

CAR: Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Calls for a New Approach to Address Hunger and Conflict

May 22, 2019 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus today called for a complete change in the ways to address the often-related issues of hunger and conflict. He made…

Of Milk and Minorities: Equity and Consumption in Vietnam

May 21, 2019 | Jody Harris

Recently, I found myself sitting on a low stool in a small, neat home in the central highlands of Vietnam, talking to three young mothers…

Challenges for Female Peacekeepers Can Come from within UN Militaries

May 21, 2019 | Vanessa Newby

On 6 March 2019, Arizona Senator Martha McSally gave testimony at an armed services committee hearing that she had been raped by a senior officer while…

Growing Authoritarianism, Social Inequalities Often a Prelude to Conflict

May 20, 2019 | Margot Wallström

I want to talk about peacebuilding and inclusive peace. My main point is that peace begins in the minds of people, and people, communities, societies…

Do Women Care More About Climate Change Than Men?

May 19, 2019 | Tabitha Whiting

Recently I heard environmentalist economist and author of Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth, speak (she joined us for our Rebel Book Club April meet up). She mentioned…

Liberia: Liberia Women Forum Wants Stakeholders Tune Down Rhetoric & Maintain Peace

May 19, 2019 | Alaskai Moore Johnson

Monrovia – Liberia Women Forum (LWF), a woman’s advocacy group, is appealing to the main stakeholders on the Liberian political landscape to tune down the…

For Many Women in Colombia, Peace Never Arrived

May 19, 2019 | Kimberley Brown, Al Jazeera

More than 340 human rights defenders in Colombia were killed from the beginning of 2016 to mid-August 2018 - mostly by paramilitaries trying to squash…

Somalia: UN Warns of Humanitarian Crisis in Drought-Stricken Somalia

May 18, 2019 | Africa News

Drought has left nearly two million Somalis in desperate need of food, a humanitarian agency warned Monday, as poor rainfall pushes communities to the brink…

Lebanon: Protection & Gender Coordinator

May 17, 2019 | Near East Foundation

The Near East Foundation, formerly the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, then the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, and later…