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Afghanistan: (Human Rights Watch) Afghanistan Peace Negotiations Must Include Women and Rights Activists

Mar 8, 2020 | Tamil Guardian

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called upon authorities negotiating an Afghanistan peace agreement to centre discussions on human rights and in particular to be inclusive…


Climate Change: Climate Change Is Fuelling Social Tensions and Conflict

Mar 8, 2020 | Tanaka Manungo, Mail & Guardian

Climate change has wreaked havoc across the world — and Africa is likely to be worst hit by its destructive consequences. There have been droughts,…


Reframing the Debate Around Women, Peace and Security

Mar 8, 2020 | Shreen Abdul Saroor

When a peace deal is struck between warring factions, it is widely understood that peace has been achieved. However, when key sections of society—in most…


Want to Go for Inclusive Climate Action? Then Start with Integrating Gender Equality into Climate Finance

Mar 8, 2020 | Verania Chaeo and Koh Miyaoi

Gender equality and women’s rights have progressed immensely since the adoption of the most visionary agenda on women’s empowerment, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for…


Supporting More Than Equal Numbers in International Climate Debates

Mar 8, 2020 | Brianna Craft and Samantha McCraine

#EachforEqual is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. It recognises that equality requires everyone’s support and that, when we all support each other, we…


Power Structures over Gender Make Women More Vulnerable to Climate Change

Mar 8, 2020 | Adelle Thomas

As the global community assesses progress made for women’s rights during the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, it is timely to take stock…


Women's Safety Means Earth's Safety

Mar 8, 2020 | Jessica Carey-Webb

Across the world, women are actively protecting the natural environment. In Latin America, despite consistent threats of violence and widening gender inequality due to climate…


Women's Rights Are Early Casualties of War

Mar 8, 2020

When conflict and crisis strike displacement, hunger, and poverty follow. But, all too often, it is women’s rights that become the early casualties of war.…


Strategies for Integrating Gender in Sustainable Ecosystem Management

Mar 8, 2020

Understanding men and women’s different roles and responsibilities related to the use, management and conservation of ecosystems and addressing the barriers to gender equality are…


Can Green Development Be Fair Development?

Mar 8, 2020 | Helen Schneider

Aceh is Indonesia’s westernmost province, situated on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra where the Andaman Sea, Malacca Straits and Indian Ocean converge.…


Myanmar: Project Manager / Chief Technical Advisor, Governance for Resilience and Sustainability Project (GRSP)

Mar 7, 2020 | UNDP

The UNDP Country Office in Myanmar is a key interlocutor and advisor to the government at the national and sub-national on sustainable and inclusive growth,…


Iraq: WASH Program Manager

Mar 7, 2020 | Terre des hommes

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss child relief organization, based in Lausanne (Switzerland). Every year our projects support more than 2 million…


DRC: Water Utility Finance and Operations Director - (French Fluency required)

Mar 7, 2020 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…


Consultant/Researcher: Supporting EITI Actors to Diagnose Extractive Sector Corruption Risks

Mar 7, 2020 | Natural Resource Governance Institute

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a not-for-profit group that promotes transparency and good governance in the oil, gas and mining sector. NRGI seeks…


Rwanda: Advisor (m/f/d) Extractive Resource Governance and Responsible Minerals Supply Chains

Mar 7, 2020 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.

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The Great Lakes…


South Sudan: Emergency Response Team’s WASH Project Manager

Mar 7, 2020 | Medair

Medair is a Swiss humanitarian organisation inspired by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. Since 1989, they have been…


Syria: Rehabilitation WASH Program Manager

Mar 7, 2020 | Solidarités International

SI has been rehabilitating water treatment and irrigation stations in several locations in NES, as a complement to its emergency activities (water trucking and emergency…


Burkina Faso: Assistant Researcher

Mar 7, 2020 | InterPeace

Interpeace is an international organisation for peacebuilding that strengthens the ability of societies to manage conflict themselves in sustainable and non-violent ways. Interpeace designs and…


DPRK: Programme Manager - Livelihoods

Mar 7, 2020 | Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in…


Turkey: Senior Upstream Officer – Infrastructure (Central and Eastern Europe)

Mar 7, 2020 | International Finance Commission

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging…


Colombia: Where Indigenous Women Take Lead on Land Rights, Communities Thrive

Mar 6, 2020 | Andrew J. Wight

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA – Across the globe, women are on the front lines of protecting traditional and Indigenous land from threats like mining, ranching, and a…


Climate Change Hits Women Hardest, Report Finds

Mar 6, 2020 | Sarah Mac Donald

Women are disproportionately hurt by climate change and corporate human rights violations throughout the world, according to a new study by Trócaire, the aid and development…


Women Ally with Nature to Adapt to Climate Change

Mar 6, 2020 | Gabriela Flores

Nature-based solutions to the global environment crisis are increasingly in the spotlight. High-profile individuals such as campaigner Greta Thunberg and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as business and governments, have all emphasised…


Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women

Mar 6, 2020

Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate change is…


Ethiopia: Trouble as Trump Dives into the Dispute over Ethiopia's Nile Mega-Dam

Mar 6, 2020 | Benita van Eyssen, Deutsche Welle

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric power plant being constructed on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. In mid-January, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan reached…


Bangladesh: The Women Fighting Climate Change in Bangladesh

Mar 6, 2020 | Marigold Warner, British Journal of Photography

In disaster-prone areas like Barishal, a major city that lies on the bank of Kirtankhola river in Bangladesh, life for women is a constant struggle.…


Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms: Can Climate-Smart Agriculture Produce Gender Equality?

Mar 6, 2020 | Sophia Huyer, Samuel Partey, and Bruce Campbell

As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on women. Most research focuses on women’s vulnerability as a result…


International Women's Day 2020: Women, War and Water in Yemen

Mar 6, 2020 | Leonie Nimmo

On International Women’s Day 2018 the UN Envoy to Yemen received an open letter calling on him to take a firm stand on women’s demands and to…


Gender Inequality Must Be Addressed for Our Work to Make a Lasting Difference

Mar 6, 2020 | Danny Harvey

I started working in international development over 20 years ago. Very enthusiastic, I believed my knowledge and skills in agriculture would bring about real transformation…


Making Gender Equality Integral to Global Agricultural Research

Mar 6, 2020

Our food systems face unprecedented challenges, from increasingly unpredictable weather to acute biodiversity loss. To feed a population of over 9.6 billion people in 2050, the…