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Call for Nominations: 2022 Women Building Peace Award

Dec 15, 2021 | USIP

By nominating a woman peacebuilder, you are honoring her accomplishments, validating her dedicated work to the peacebuilding field, and recognizing her contributions to preventing and…

Liberia: Sapo National Park Now Prepared to Receive Tourists

Dec 14, 2021 | FrontPage Africa

Through the help of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation and the instrumentality of the Forestry Development Authority, a new Ecolodge has been opened in Sinoe County…

The Changing Face of the Global Humanitarian Crisis: Gender, Climate Change, and Humanitarian Interventions

Dec 13, 2021 | Shruti Samala

“In a changing world with galloping, growing needs, we can’t keep making the same efforts, issuing the same pleas, and just write bigger and bigger…

Morocco: Refugee Women Scale Atlas Mountain to Tackle Gender Violence

Dec 13, 2021 | Kawtar Abendag and Ass Hagouchi

A Gender Dimension of Energy: Modern Cooking Fuels Connected to Quicker Demographic Transition

Dec 13, 2021 | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Afghanistan: Mining at Mes Aynak Has Resumed: Officials

Dec 13, 2021 | TOLOnews

Officials of the Islamic Emirate said that the Logar Mes Aynak copper-mining project, a major venture with China, has resumed operations.

Afghanistan: Top Taliban Leader Claims They Have ‘Made Progress’ on Gender Rights

Dec 13, 2021 | Mike Brest

CAR: Protection Officer

Dec 11, 2021 | INTERSOS

INTERSOS is a Non-Governmental Humanitarian Organization, non-profit, which aims to assist victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts. INTERSOS bases its action on the values ​​of…

Iraq: Request for Proposals for a Gender Studies and Gender Social Work Expert, Kurdistan Region

Dec 11, 2021 | SEED Foundation

SEED Foundation in coordination with Salaheddin University’s social work department is currently implementing the ‘Protecting and Empowering Survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Kurdistan Region…

Guatemala: Chief Of Party – GBV Prevention and Response Project

Dec 11, 2021 | EnCompass

EnCompass is seeking a Chief of Party (COP, Guatemala) candidate for an upcoming five-year activity for the USAID Mission in Guatemala focused on reducing the negative social and economic…

Afghanistan: Programme Manager, Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls

Dec 11, 2021 | UN Women

Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, UN Women works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…

Latin America: Gender and Climate Change Analyst

Dec 11, 2021 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The FAO Gender Equality Policy establishes four objectives to guide FAO's technical and normative work and seventeen minimum standards to support the establishment of institutional…

Kuwait: ‘Gushing Oil and Roaring Fires’: 30 Years on Kuwait Is Still Scarred by Catastrophic Pollution

Dec 11, 2021 | Richa Syal, Guardian

For 10 months in Kuwait, everything was upside down. Daytime was full of darkness from the thick smoke, and nights were bright from the distant…

Nigeria: Insecurity - Effects and Implications for Nigerian Women, Girls

Dec 11, 2021 | Angela Nkwo

Cameroon: Climate Change Fuels Violence and Mass Displacement in Cameroon

Dec 10, 2021 | UN News

A flare-up in intercommunal fighting in northern Cameroon has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and brought a halt to aid…

Climate Change and Gender Equality

Dec 10, 2021

Takalani Netshitenzhe, External Affairs Director for Vodacom South Africa says,“This year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence was shortly after the United Nations Climate…

DRC: Gender-Based Violence Survivors Learn to Rebuild Engines as they Rebuild Lives

Dec 10, 2021 | Vittoria Moretti

Iraq: How the Oil Industry Is Making Iraqis Sick

Dec 10, 2021 | TRT World

Oil is the main driver of Iraq’s economy, but at human and environmental costs. In Iraq’s southern city of Basra, the cancer rate has been…

Fiji: U.S. Government Enhances Gender Balance in Climate Adaptation Training

Dec 9, 2021 | US Embassy in Fiji

Colombia: Colombia’s Amazon Is a Peace Victim

Dec 9, 2021 | George Mackie, Washington Newsday

Surprisingly, the 2016 peace agreement in Colombia that ended nearly six decades of civil strife has harmed the Amazon. Land grabbers came into areas that…

UNDP Empowers Women, Promotes Gender Equality Through Energy Management System Training

Dec 8, 2021

In an effort to boost gender equality and female participation in the energy management sector, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held the Srikandi Energy…

Women Peacebuilders Get $5 Million Boost

Dec 8, 2021 | Search for Common Ground

New 5-year program will focus on some of the world’s conflict hotspots.

Mining Sector Has an Obligation to Fight Gender-Based Violence

Dec 8, 2021 | Nolitha Fakude

The Minerals Council SA and our member companies are well aware that we operate in a context and climate where sexual harassment and gender-based violence…

Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding GOING VIRTUAL*

Dec 7, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

The Organizing Committee for the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding has decided to convert the hybrid format to an ostensibly virtual conference.

This announcement covers…

How Does Fighting Climate Change Help Protect Sexual and Reproductive Health?

Dec 7, 2021 | Leah Rodriguez

Climate change doesn’t just damage the world’s natural resources and wildlife — it also has lasting impacts on the health of human beings, disproportionately affecting women and girls. 

Ahead…

Liberia: Liberia Sets to Issue Title Deeds for Customary Land

Dec 7, 2021 | Observer

The Liberia Land Authority (LLA), with support from the Joint United Nations PeaceBuilding Support Programme on December 2, launched an historic land survey in Sinje, Grand…

How Does Fighting Climate Change Help Protect Sexual and Reproductive Health?

Dec 7, 2021 | Leah Rodriguez

Afghanistan: Taliban Issues Decree on Afghan Women’s Rights

Dec 4, 2021 | Aleynes Palacios Hurtado

Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada on Friday issued a decree on women's rights in Afghanistan, official sources reported.

Afghanistan: In Afghanistan, ‘Who Has the Guns Gets the Land’

Dec 3, 2021 | Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Yaqoob Akbary, New York TImes

Thousands of Afghans are facing such traumatic dislocations as the new Taliban government uses property to compensate its fighters for years of military service, amid…

View: Uncertain Futures of women's rights in Afghanistan

Nov 29, 2021 | Avni Sablok