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Namibia: Namibia Promotes Women's Rights in Accessing Communal Land to Ensure Food Security

Jun 10, 2019 | Xinhua

Namibian Juliana Uushona, 46, lost her husband four years ago and with his death, she also lost their property after her in-laws took everything. With nowhere…

Humanitarian Aid Failing to Be Feminist as Funding for Women Lags behind

Jun 10, 2019 | Nellie Peyton, Reuters

About 0.1% of humanitarian funding goes to addressing violence against women and girls worldwide, charities said on Monday, prompting calls for a new “feminist” approach…

Women as Climate Action Ambassadors in Coastal Districts of India's Odisha State

Jun 7, 2019 | UN Environment

People in the coastal districts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha are increasingly suffering from the effects of climate change. Most households in the…

Sierra Leone: Academic Uses Film to Raise Plight of Sierra Leone Diamond Miners

Jun 7, 2019 | Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education

It is widely known that “blood diamonds” played a major role in funding the rebel Revolutionary United Front during the ghastly civil war in Sierra…

Women as Climate Action Ambassadors in Coastal Districts of India's Odisha State

Jun 7, 2019 | UN Environment

People in the coastal districts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha are increasingly suffering from the effects of climate change. Most households in the…

Iraq: Gender and Protection Manager

Jun 6, 2019 | CARE

About CARE: CARE International (CARE) is a non-religious and non-political international humanitarian aid organization dedicated to fighting global poverty, through diverse public and private partnerships…

DRC: Women Protection & Empowerment Program Coordinator-Ebola Response

Jun 6, 2019 | International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC…

UN Women: Policy Specialist - Governance and National Planning

Jun 6, 2019 | UN Women

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

A Woman Even Here: Protecting Arab Women's Rights is a Key to Mitigating Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

Jun 6, 2019 | Rudroneel Gosh

A pertinent session at the ongoing Women Deliver Conference 2019 focussed on the challenges faced by women in the Arab world. Hosted by UNFPA Arab…

Why More Women Should Be Included in the Leadership of Virunga National Park

Jun 6, 2019 | Judith Verweijen, Janvier Murairi, and Esther Marijnen

Since 2014, the number of female park guards serving in Virunga National Park, located in war-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been gradually…

27 Women Leading the Charge to Protect Our Environment

Jun 6, 2019 | Veronique Hyland, Naomi Rougeau and Julie Vandal

Scientists have called our current, climate change–threatened era the Anthropocene, but as the eco-economist Kate Raworth once joked, women are left out of the narrative…

Nigeria: Gender & Nutrition Officer

Jun 4, 2019 | Oxfam

 Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. Oxfam's…

Mozambique: Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Coordinator

Jun 4, 2019 | International Organization for Migration

Established in 1951, IOM is a Related Organization of the United Nations, and as the leading UN agency in the field of migration, works closely…

Call for Research Fellowships on Land and Gender under the “Network of Excellence for Land Governance in Africa (NELGA)”

Jun 4, 2019 | Network of Excellence for Land Governance in Africa (NELGA)

The DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) is a publicly funded, self-governing organisation of the institutions of higher education in Germany. It promotes international academic exchange…

Climate Change: Germany Pushes Climate Change as Security Risk

Jun 4, 2019 | Austin Davis, Deutsche Welle

Floods, drought and mass migration: all factors why Germany has made the UN's response to climate change its priority at the Security Council. But political…

Afghanistan: Greenhouses Could Hold the Key to Tackling Afghanistan’s Food Shortages

Jun 4, 2019 | ACTED

While Afghanistan continues to import a large proportion of its most basic food needs, ACTED is working in Samangan province to help rural women become…

Champions for Change: The Power of Women Peacemakers and Peacebuilders in Ukraine

Jun 3, 2019

In 2009, Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan sat in the United Nations Security Council when then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over a debate on…

Kenya: Consultancy on Gender and Youth Vulnerability in Kisumu and Homa Bay Counties, Kenya

May 31, 2019 | Practical Action

Practical Action is a global innovator, inspiring people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage. As an international…

Jordan: Womens Economic Empowerment Advisor

May 31, 2019 | CARE USA

CARE is a global humanitarian organization providing disaster relief to areas in crisis, while providing long-term solutions to poverty around the world.

CARE defines women’s economic…

Women's Land Rights: Shifting Power for Gender Equality

May 31, 2019 | Beth Roberts

Achieving gender equality requires a fundamental shift in the balance of power over resources. Globally, from urban financial centers to remote communities, from international bodies…

South Asia Needs to Adopt a Gender Mainstreaming Approach in Climate Policy

May 31, 2019 | Dhanasree Jayaram

The disproportionate impacts of environmental and climate change on women are being studied and documented worldwide. However, when it comes to addressing the gender gap…

Myanmar: Go Fish! But, Please, Do So Legally

May 30, 2019 | Kundhavi Kadiresan, Myanmar Times

The people of Myanmar love fish and both demand and consumption of fish is on the rise. On the one hand that’s good, because fish…

'I'll Keep Fighting': Philippine Women Keep Alive Memory of Sex Slave Horrors During World War II

May 30, 2019 | Regine Cabato

MANILA —  Rosa Henson, a survivor of wartime sexual slavery at the hands of Japanese forces, went public in 1992 with her story. She had no…

Gender Program Coordinator and Office Manager

May 25, 2019 | NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York

The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, is a non-profit corporation working to advance the human rights of women and girls worldwide…

Climate Change: How to Think about Global Warming and War

May 23, 2019 | Economist

No conflict occurs without leaders to give orders and soldiers to pull triggers. No atrocities are committed unless human beings choose to commit them.Nonetheless, future-gazers…

Chad/Mali: How Climate Change Can Fuel Wars

May 23, 2019

On the outskirts of Baga Sola, a small town in Chad not far from the border with Nigeria, is a refugee camp called Dar es Salaam.…

Liberia: ActionAid Trains 20 Journalists to Report Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

May 23, 2019 | Front Page Africa

Monrovia – In the wake of increased cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) across the country, 20 Liberian journalists have begun benefiting from a…

Kenya: Women’s Land Rights Programme Assistant

May 22, 2019 | Oxfam

Oxfam International (OI) is a confederation of 17 organizations working together with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to…

Kenya: Women’s Land Rights Programme Officer

May 22, 2019 | Oxfam

Oxfam International (OI) is a confederation of 17 organizations working together with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to…

Request for Consultants – Health, Hunger, Hardship, Her & MERL

May 22, 2019 | Project Concern International

Background on PCI

Founded in 1961, PCI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing health, ending hunger, overcoming hardship, and advancing women and girls around…