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UNDP Launches Gender and Crisis Engagement Facility

Mar 15, 2021 | UNDP

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the establishment of a new facility designed to strengthen women’s leadership and participation in crisis contexts.

Burkina Faso: No Trees, No Crops, No Jobs: Burkina Faso's Women Fall Back on Hard Labour

Mar 14, 2021 | Sam Mednick, Thomson Reuters News

Wiping her sandy fingers on her shirt, Balkissa Sawadogo for a moment rests her aching body from shovelling sand and gravel into piles. Three years ago,…

The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: Towards a More Inclusive Peace

Mar 13, 2021 | Keina Yoshida and Lina Céspedes-Báez

The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and environmental peacebuilding literature’s shared failure to engage more effectively with each other has directly undermined their attempts…

Canada Is Long Overdue for a National Climate Security Strategy

Mar 13, 2021 | Luthfi Dhofier

The impacts of climate change on security issues such as political instability and mass migrations are well-documented. It is time for Canada to make climate…

Forced Coca Eradication Could Undermine Colombia’s Peace

Mar 13, 2021 | Elizabeth Dickinson

If President Ivan Duque has his way, Colombia will soon resume aerial fumigation of coca plantations for the first time in over five years. It paused the…

Emergency Law Responses and Conflict-Affected States in Transition

Mar 13, 2021 | Erin Houlihan, Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher, Sean Molloy, Christine Bell, and Asanga Welikala

Some type of emergency law response to Covid-19 has been used in most states. However, conflict ‘fault lines’ can mean that the ways in which…

Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone’s Mining Sector in Focus: 2018 – 2021

Mar 13, 2021 | Abdul Rashid Thomas, Sierra Leone Telegraph

In April 2018, His Excellency, Retired Brigadier Dr Julius Maada Bio became President of Sierra Leone, and, among other things, he promised to transform the…

Myanmar: UN Agency Raises Alarm Over ‘Targeted’ Violence Against Women in Myanmar Protests

Mar 12, 2021 | UN News

In addition, women in detention are also reportedly experiencing sexual harassment and violence, UN-Women said in a statement on Friday.

“Women have long played a celebrated and vital role in…

A Conversation with Marisa O. Ensor on Securitizing Youth and Youth’s Role in Peace and Security Agendas [Audio]

Mar 12, 2021 | Amanda King

“I’ve been quite impressed by the wide diversity and complexity of young women’s and men’s engagement for peacebuilding and development often while confronting seemingly insurmountable…

Latest Session of UN Women’s Commission Focuses on Equality in Public Life

Mar 12, 2021 | UN News

For the first time in its history, the Commission will be held almost entirely virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, with events organized by UN Women,…

Integrate Climate Change with Sexual and Reproductive Health to Safeguard the Wellbeing of All

Mar 12, 2021 | UNFPA

“Climate change is one of the most disruptive issues of our time. Not only is it a disrupter of progress towards development, but it is…

United States: ‘A Dangerous Trajectory’: When Domestic Violence and Climate Change Converge

Mar 12, 2021 | Lee Ann De Reus, Women's Media Center

Burst water pipes, flooding, and power outages at domestic violence shelters in Texas displaced hundreds of survivors during mid-February’s aberrant winter weather. At one particular…

Malala Yousafzai Says Educate Girls to Fight Climate Change

Mar 12, 2021 | Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters News

Keeping girls in school and taking young climate leaders seriously are keys to tackling climate change, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said on Friday. Speaking…

Colombia: Colombia Power Sector Green Vow Draws Mixed Reviews

Mar 12, 2021 | Argus Media

US utility AES, Colombian generators Celsia, Urra and EPM, Italy's Enel and Colombia's state-controlled transmission giant Isa and its subsidiaries Transelca and grid manager XM…

Colombia: Strengthening Women’s Leadership Role in Colombia’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

Mar 12, 2021 | Mirage News

In Colombia, the gold mining industry has typically employed men, with women’s participation extremely low, reaching only 5% of the total. But in Chocó, where…

India: Women and Natural Resources: How Nature, Gender and Social Divisions Intersect

Mar 11, 2021 | Snow Leopard Trust

To conserve snow leopards and natural resources better, we must understand and identify the important roles that women can - and do - play in…

Climate Security in the UN Security Council: Achieving More through Improved Knowledge and Increased Credibility

Mar 10, 2021 | Judith Nora Hardt, Michael Brzoska and Alina Viehoff

The German government should continue its efforts on climate change and security even after its membership in the UN Security Council has come to an…

Mexico: Violence Against Women in Mexico Rises

Mar 9, 2021 | Mat Youkee, The Fair Observer

Home is not a safe space for many women around the world and coronavirus-era quarantines and lockdowns have increased the risk of gender-based violence. In…

Pacific Women in Climate Change Negotiations

Mar 9, 2021 | George Carter and Elise Howard, Asia & The Pacific Policy Forum

The under-representation of women in climate negotiations is well-established. When the global multilateral body on climate change, the Conferences of Parties (COP) of the United…

Dhanasree Jayaram

Assistant Professor at Department of Geopolitics and International Relations
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
India
Mar 9, 2021

Dhanasree Jayaram is a climate security scholar focused primarily on South Asia and based in Karnataka, India. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department…

Rethink Gender Issues to Better Tackle Climate Change

Mar 8, 2021 | Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless

Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently. Women…

Rethinking Women’s Leadership in Crisis Situations

Mar 8, 2021 | UNDP

Welcome to today’s discussions on rethinking women’s leadership in crisis situations. This is held as part of our Development Dialogues: Rethinking Solutions to Crisis in the…

Call for Abstracts Launched for the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (DEADLINE: April 15)

Mar 8, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association; Geneva Peacebuilding Platform; Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Geneva Water Hub, University of Geneva; and UN Environment Programme

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association and partners are pleased to announce a Call for Abstracts for the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding. The organizers are…