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Corona Impact: Gender Pay Gap Likely to Get Worse as More Women Get Laid Off, Take Time off Work

Mar 31, 2020 | Christine Murray

MEXICO CITY: Advances in closing the worldwide gender pay gap are at risk of being reversed by the coronavirus, experts and advocates warn, as women…

Learning from Dalit Women Fighting for Land Rights in Punjab

Mar 31, 2020 | Tarini Manchanda

Stories about Dalit women often go untold, even though women of this social category continue to face discrimination in the caste system as the most oppressed social…

Show Me! Laying the Foundation for the Next Generation of Environmental Peacebuilding

Mar 31, 2020 | Carl Bruch

As documented by the New Security Beat, environmental peacebuilding has grown dramatically as a field in recent years. Across the security, development, and diplomatic communities,…

Members Urge States and the IUCN to Address Conflicts and Biodiversity

Mar 31, 2020 | Stavros Pantazopoulos

The topic of the protection of the environment in relation armed conflicts (PERAC) is increasingly attracting the attention of the international community. The UN Environment…

India: India's Women Seaweed Divers Swim Against the Tide of Climate Change

Mar 30, 2020 | Anuradha Nagaraj, Reuters

Ramanathapuram, India - In a blue plastic barrel, Meenakshi Mookupori packed her belongings for a five-day stay on an island in the Indian Ocean, off…

How Gum Acacia Trees Could Help Build Peace in the Sahel

Mar 30, 2020 | Ousseyni Kalilou

A special type of tree could facilitate peacebuilding in the Sahel. A stretch of semi-arid land south of the Sahara that runs from the Red…

Iraq: Iraq Has $70bn in Reserves to Keep Economy Afloat for 6 Months to a Year: MP

Mar 28, 2020 | Zhelwan Z. Wali, Rudaw

Baghdad can weather the economic impact of coronavirus and the collapse of world oil prices for six months to a year by dipping into foreign…

Myanmar: Villagers Rue Land Loss and Pollution From Copper Mine in Myanmar [Video]

Mar 27, 2020 | Radio Free Asia

Seven years after then-opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi first promised to address the impact of the Chinese-operated Letpadaung copper mine that had sparked violent…

Chitra Nagarajan on What’s Changed for Women in Lake Chad Region

Mar 27, 2020 | Wania Yad

“Women and men face very different risks and challenges,” said Chitra Nagarajan, a writer and journalist who covers climate change, conflict, and gender. She spoke in…

Earth Hour Reminds us Tackling Climate Change Needs Gender Equality

Mar 27, 2020 | Kalpana Giri

Forests are vital to tackling climate change. But if we are to succeed in our efforts to save the Earth, we must think beyond conservation,…

Colombia: Colombia Is Using an App to Return Land to People Displaced by War

Mar 26, 2020 | Ritoban Mukherjee, Quartz

An analytics and mapping software called ArcGIS allows parties to analyze and share data, created by the global geographic imaging system (GIS) firm Esri. Essentially,…

The Future of Climate Change and Peace

Mar 26, 2020 | Maxine Burkett and Maya Soetoro-Ng

As fires rage in Australia and in the Amazon, hurricanes ravage the Caribbean year after year, and glacial melt threatens entire communities in the high…

Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women

Mar 26, 2020 | Celine Salcedo-La Vina

The international community now fully recognizes the need to secure women’s land rights. The Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s blueprint for development, include women’s land ownership…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's KRG Delays Oil Payments with Cash Stuck in Lebanese Bank: Sources

Mar 25, 2020 | Dania Saadi and Katie McQue, S&P Global Platts

The oil ministry of Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq has been unable to pay energy companies operating in the semi-autonomous region because its cash has…

Women and Peace and Security in the Time of Corona

Mar 25, 2020 | Sanam Naraghi Anderlini

2020: It was always going to be a big year for the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda; twenty years since the UN Security Council’s…

Colombia: Colombian Death Squads Exploiting Coronavirus Lockdown to Kill Activists

Mar 24, 2020 | Joe Parkin Daniels, Guardian

Death squads in Colombia are taking advantage of coronavirus lockdowns to murder rural activists, local NGOs have warned. Colombia is one of the most dangerous…

Women Lose Most from the Climate Crisis. How Can we Empower Them?

Mar 24, 2020 | Tharanga Gunawardena

Extreme climate events are increasingly threatening countries and livelihoods. Devastating natural disasters and unpredictable weather have made communities more vulnerable and impoverished, especially women. According…

COVID-19 and the Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform

Mar 24, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

As we collectively continue through an extraordinary public health emergency, we recognize that the everyone's lives and routines are in flux.  We are all striving to cope with a…

Honduras: Honduras’s Deadly Water Wars

Mar 24, 2020 | Jared Olson, Nation

Here, in the heart of Carlos Escaleras National Park, at the head of dozens of rivers, a deadly water conflict is playing out between the…

Colombia: National Parks Pay the Price as Land Conflicts Intensify in Colombia

Mar 24, 2020 | Taran Volckhausen, Mongabay

Since the demobilization of the FARC in 2016, deforestation has skyrocketed in the region, most notably in Tinigua Natural National Park. Deforestation shot up 400%…

Yemen: Office Associate

Mar 23, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…

Women & Climate: Planting a Global Forest in a Connected World

Mar 23, 2020 | Rita Ann Wallace and Cynthia S Reyes

In January of this year, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shocked much of the world when they…

Gender and Climate-The Importance of Women's Leadership in Climate Action in Singapore and Hong Kong

Mar 23, 2020 | John Sayer

At the most recent UN climate talks in Madrid in December 2019, one positive outcome was the approval of a new Gender Action Plan that…

Promoting Peace in Deserts of Sun and Wind: Renewable Energy Cooperation between India and Pakistan

Mar 23, 2020 | Mirza Sadaqat Huda

 South Asia is one of the most conflict-prone regions in the world, in addition to facing chronic energy shortages and extreme vulnerability to climate change.…

Kabul River for Peace and Development

Mar 23, 2020 | Nisar A. Memon

Kabul River (KR) is key resource for large territory of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. About 10 percent of Pakistan’s total water supply comes from the…

Libya: National Consultant Specialist on Cost-Benefit Analysis

Mar 23, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…

Myanmar: Technical Consultant for Water Stewardship Project

Mar 23, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of wilderness preservation, and the reduction of…

Chad: Project Manager Radio Ndarason Internationale

Mar 23, 2020 | Okapi Consulting

Okapi Consulting gets people talking to each other in conflict zones and fragile states. We are a leader in innovative media and research projects across…

Yemen: Environmental Health Coordinator

Mar 23, 2020 | International Rescue Committee

The IRC Yemen began its Health, Nutrition and Environmental Health programs in response to the impact of conflicts in Abyan and Aden Governorates in October…

Somalia: Portfolio Officer

Mar 23, 2020 | Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund

The AECF (Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund) is a nonprofit institution supporting early and growth-stage businesses – through the provision of patient capital – to innovate,…