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Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Says Will No Longer Provide Forex for Mining Companies Importing Fuel
May 12, 2022
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Reuters
Sierra Leone will no longer provide foreign exchange for mining companies and other large businesses to import oil as of June 1, accusing them of…
Afghanistan: More Women Get Involved in Takhar Apiculture Business
May 12, 2022
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Yasin Joya
The Risks of Gender-Blind Climate Action
May 10, 2022
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Marisa O. Ensor
Climate change is widely recognized as one the greatest threats to peace and security in the 21st century. The causal pathways that link deteriorating environmental conditions, insecurity, and conflict, while…
Yemen: Women at the Center of Water, Agriculture, and Family income
May 10, 2022
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World Bank Group
In the Yemeni village of Quhal, in Amran governorate in northern Yemen, the main source of water used to be the old rainwater ponds that…
Reimagining the Aftermath of War, Now
May 10, 2022
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Aida A. Hozić and Juliana Restrepo Sanín
Feminist scholars stress two aspects of wars. First, they emphasise continuums and circuits of violence, challenging the usual dichotomies of war and peace, public and private, domestic and…
Champion of Women’s Right to Manage Land and Forests Wins Top Environment Prize
May 6, 2022
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New Dawn
A veteran Cameroonian activist working to preserve her country’s forests, and improve the lives of people who depend on them, is the latest winner of…
Afghanistan: More Foreign Firms Offer to Invest in Afghanistan Mining Sector [Video]
May 5, 2022
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Ariana News
More foreign firms offer to invest in Afghanistan mining sector.
Ukraine: Reports Reveal Women Are Stepping Up, Impact on Education
May 4, 2022
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UN News
The war in Ukraine is having a disproportionate impact on women and minorities, who are facing immense hardship when it comes to health, safety, and…
Myanmar: In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar
May 3, 2022
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Emily Fishbein, Jaw Tu Hkawng, Nu Nu Lusan, and Jauman Naw, Yale Environment 360
With a military junta retaking power last year, a gold rush is increasingly despoiling rivers in the Myanmar state of Kachin, polluting water with mercury,…
Afghanistan: Nearly 400 Jawzjan Women Self-Reliant in Mushroom Farming
May 2, 2022
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Baran
A number of women in northern Jawzjan province, who have become self-reliant in cultivation of mushrooms, have called on the government to train them.
Afghanistan: Mes Aynak Contract Must Be Reviewed, Work Begun: Prime Minister
Apr 26, 2022
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Amina Hakimi, TOLOnews
Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the Islamic Emirate, at a cabinet meeting ordered the Economic Commission to remove the obstacles for work…
Open Online Course on Gender and Environment
Apr 25, 2022
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UN CC: Learn
Do you want to find out why promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment can help deliver better environmental outcomes, and to figure out how you…
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and SAGE Publishing Announce New Journal "Environment and Security"
Apr 22, 2022
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association and SAGE Publishing
The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and SAGE Publishing are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated…
Liberia: Women's Land Rights Awareness Campaign Bears Fruits
Apr 19, 2022
Adah Johnson,* 56, from Flumpa, Nimba County in north-eastern Liberia is a beneficiary of the continued awareness sessions on the rights of women to land…
Afghanistan: Strawberry Fields Could Supplant Afghanistan's Poppies, Forever
Apr 18, 2022
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Xinhua
Afghanistan's Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul provinces have always been close to the heart of the world's opium, and later heroin, trade. Poppy cultivation has been…
Egypt: International Expert – Mainstreaming Gender-Responsive Climate Change and Environmental Work
Apr 16, 2022
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UN Women
In support of Egypt’s Vision 2030 and its National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women, under the emerging UN cooperation framework for Egypt, UN…
Uganda: Terms of Reference for a Consultancy to Undertake a Gender Assessment and Develop a Gender Action Plan as Part of the Development of a Green Climate Fund Proposal
Apr 16, 2022
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It…
Thailand: Research Fellow, Gender, Social Equity, Justice and Climate Financing
Apr 16, 2022
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Stockholm Environment Institute
SEI is an independent international research institute founded in 1989. Its mission is to support decision-making and induce change towards sustainable development around the world…
Ukraine: Gender and GBV Technical Adviser
Apr 16, 2022
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Save the Children
To support Ukraine CO to adhere to gender and GBV international standards and best practices, to ensure women and girls have equal access to, benefit…
Asia Pacific: Regional Research on Girls’ Activism and Leadership for Climate Justice
Apr 16, 2022
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Plan International
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. As an independent development and humanitarian organisation, we…
#BringBackOurGirls: Ecofeminism, Climate, and Conflict
Apr 14, 2022
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Adenike Oladosu
On the night of April 14, 2014, a group of militants attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. They kidnapped 276 female students,…
Climate Policies Must Allow Women to Control their Bodies and their Fates
Apr 14, 2022
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Zainab Yunusa
Links between women’s sexual and reproductive health and the impacts of climate change are made clear in the recent Working Group II report from the UN Intergovernmental…
Colombia: A Seed Bank in Colombia Is Helping to Climate-Proof Food Systems
Apr 12, 2022
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Clarisa Diaz, Quartz
As extreme weather and drought affect agriculture all over the world, securing both food systems and farmers’ livelihoods is becoming increasingly vital. The Future Seeds…
Somalia: UN Women Somalia, in Partnership with the Federal Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development and Ministries of Women Launch Two Research Studies
Apr 12, 2022
UN Women Somalia, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry for Women and Human Rights Development (MoWHRD) and the Ministries of Women, Jubaland and the South West State, launched two research studies focusing on gender, climate and conflict, and market assessments of micro-enterprise opportunities at…
Converging Risks: Demographic Trends, Gender Inequity, and Security Challenges in the Sahel
Apr 4, 2022
Security conditions in the Sahel are rapidly deteriorating. Since 2016, the region has witnessed a 16-fold increase in terrorist attacks. In Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania,…
A Closer Look at the Intersection of Gender and Security
Mar 31, 2022
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Deseri Tsepetis
While there has been progress in advancing civil rights and visibility for women and transgender folks, there is a long way to go to build…
The Key to Climate Action and Sustainable Peace? Women’s Full and Equal Participation
Mar 31, 2022
Climate change is not gender neutral, and for activist Fatima Muriel, this fact is all too real for thousands of women in her home country, Colombia.
In…
Colombia: Colombia Cocoa’s Peaceful Transition to Global Prominence
Mar 30, 2022
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Anthony Myers, ConfectionaryNews
ConfectioneryNews talked to Jose Puyana, ProColombia's Regional Director for Europe, ahead of a Trade Mission to the UK (31 March to 3 April) to attend…
Feminist Courage for Environmental Peace
Mar 30, 2022
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Ilse Wermink, Christina Vetter, and Brittany Roser
Women, girls, and gender minorities are uniquely and disproportionately affected by the damaging environmental impacts of conflict, while lacking and demanding access to shape the…
Climate Change/Ukraine/Russia: Russia’s War on Ukraine Upends Arctic Climate-Change Research
Mar 26, 2022
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Nidhi Subbaraman, Wall Street Journal
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has delayed or derailed international collaborations studying climate change in the Arctic, with many Western scientists and scientific organizations cutting ties…