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Bangladesh: Women in Rural Bangladesh Bear Rising Cost of Climate Crisis

May 19, 2022 | Al Jazeera

India: Jammu and Kashmir: Forest Fire Triggers Several Landmine Explosions along LoC in Poonch

May 18, 2022 | LatestLY

A forest fire triggered several landmine explosions along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials.said on Wednesday. The fire that started…

Australia: Australian Women Document Climate Crisis in Visual Petition – In Pictures

May 18, 2022 | Tracey Nearmy, The Guardian

The #everydayclimatecrisis visual petition is a collection of more than 1,000 photographs taken by women and non-binary people across Australia showing the impact of the…

How the Taliban’s New Burqa Order Threatens Economic and Workplace Progress for Afghanistan’s Women

May 17, 2022 | Olivia Peluso

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has ordered women to cover their faces in public in a return to a signature policy of their past rule and an escalation…

US: ‘I Feel Angry and Incredibly Motivated’: US Abortion Providers Consider Options for Fighting Back

May 17, 2022 | Carey Dunne

Doctors around the country are anticipating the struggles of patients and providers after the likely fall of Roe v Wade: ‘We’ve been planning for it’.

Canada: Researcher / Sr Researcher - Water, Health and Gender Transformation

May 16, 2022 | United Nations University

The United Nations University (UNU) is an international community of scholars engaged in policy-oriented research, capacity development and dissemination of knowledge, furthering the purposes and…

Lesotho: Gender and Irrigation Sector Expert

May 16, 2022 | EnCompass

EnCompass LLC is seeking a consultant to serve as a Gender and Irrigation Sector Expert for the five-year Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI) Call Order in…

USA: WASH and Gender Specialist

May 16, 2022 | Blumont

Blumont is a global organization working with local communities to design and implement innovative approaches to building infrastructure, delivering lifesaving humanitarian assistance, and bridging the…

Liberia/Sierra Leone: FDA, Partners Adopt Resolution to Protect Gola Forest

May 16, 2022 | Tina S. Mehnpaine, Observer

The Liberia Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and the Society for the Conservation of Nature (SCNL) have passed resolutions to protect and manage the Gola Forest…

Syria: Syria’s Poisoned Earth: How Years of Conflict Have Polluted and Destroyed Syrian Land

May 16, 2022 | Loujeina Haj Youssef and Mais Katt, Rozana

An undercovered aspect of wars is how they destroy the landscape of countries, from uprooting trees and destroying irrigation systems to polluting the soil with…

‘Women Being Targeted In World’s Conflict Flashpoints,’ Says Former Minister

May 16, 2022 | Jewish News

Jewish-Muslim virtual conference hears politicans on both sides talk of the need for unity amid Afghan, Ukraine and Uyghur crises.

Afghanistan: Gender and Advocacy Manager

May 16, 2022 | Mhair Educational, Health and Human Rights Organization

Mhair Educational, Health and Human Rights Organization (MEHHRO) is a non-profit and non-political organization. It was established in 2002 by Afghan intellectual and veteran group…

New Climate Frontier: Gender-Based Lawsuits

May 13, 2022 | Lesley Clark

Lawsuits brought by women against governments in Pakistan and Switzerland over failures to curb greenhouse gas emissions could be harbingers of a new avenue for…

Ukraine: 21 Federal Agencies Monitoring Ukraine War's Environmental Toll

May 13, 2022 | Andrew Freedman, Axios

Senior U.S. officials are huddling weekly to assess and share information on the environmental threats Ukraine faces due to Russia's invasion, Axios has learned. The…

Ukraine: EU is Stepping Up Support to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Survivors

May 13, 2022 | European Commission

The Commission announces €1.5 million for a dedicated project to support the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in assisting women and girls in Ukraine by…

Afghanistan: More Women Get Involved in Takhar Apiculture Business

May 12, 2022 | Yasin Joya

Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Says Will No Longer Provide Forex for Mining Companies Importing Fuel

May 12, 2022 | Reuters

Sierra Leone will no longer provide foreign exchange for mining companies and other large businesses to import oil as of June 1, accusing them of…

Yemen: Women at the Center of Water, Agriculture, and Family income

May 10, 2022 | World Bank Group

In the Yemeni village of Quhal, in Amran governorate in northern Yemen, the main source of water used to be the old rainwater ponds that…

The Risks of Gender-Blind Climate Action

May 10, 2022 | Marisa O. Ensor

Climate change is widely recognized as one the greatest threats to peace and security in the 21st century. The causal pathways that link deteriorating environmental conditions, insecurity, and conflict, while…

Reimagining the Aftermath of War, Now

May 10, 2022 | Aida A. Hozić and Juliana Restrepo Sanín

Feminist scholars stress two aspects of wars. First, they emphasise continuums and circuits of violence, challenging the usual dichotomies of war and peace, public and private, domestic and…

Champion of Women’s Right to Manage Land and Forests Wins Top Environment Prize

May 6, 2022 | New Dawn

A veteran Cameroonian activist working to preserve her country’s forests, and improve the lives of people who depend on them, is the latest winner of…

Afghanistan: More Foreign Firms Offer to Invest in Afghanistan Mining Sector [Video]

May 5, 2022 | Ariana News

More foreign firms offer to invest in Afghanistan mining sector.

Ukraine: Reports Reveal Women Are Stepping Up, Impact on Education

May 4, 2022 | UN News

The war in Ukraine is having a disproportionate impact on women and minorities, who are facing immense hardship when it comes to health, safety, and…

Myanmar: In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar

May 3, 2022 | Emily Fishbein, Jaw Tu Hkawng, Nu Nu Lusan, and Jauman Naw, Yale Environment 360

With a military junta retaking power last year, a gold rush is increasingly despoiling rivers in the Myanmar state of Kachin, polluting water with mercury,…

Afghanistan: Nearly 400 Jawzjan Women Self-Reliant in Mushroom Farming

May 2, 2022 | Baran

A number of women in northern Jawzjan province, who have become self-reliant in cultivation of mushrooms, have called on the government to train them.

Afghanistan: Mes Aynak Contract Must Be Reviewed, Work Begun: Prime Minister

Apr 26, 2022 | Amina Hakimi, TOLOnews

Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister of the Islamic Emirate, at a cabinet meeting ordered the Economic Commission to remove the obstacles for work…

Open Online Course on Gender and Environment

Apr 25, 2022 | UN CC: Learn

Do you want to find out why promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment can help deliver better environmental outcomes, and to figure out how you…

Environmental Peacebuilding Association and SAGE Publishing Announce New Journal "Environment and Security"

Apr 22, 2022 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and SAGE Publishing

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and SAGE Publishing are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated…

Liberia: Women's Land Rights Awareness Campaign Bears Fruits

Apr 19, 2022

Adah Johnson,* 56, from Flumpa, Nimba County in north-eastern Liberia is a beneficiary of the continued awareness sessions on the rights of women to land…

Afghanistan: Strawberry Fields Could Supplant Afghanistan's Poppies, Forever

Apr 18, 2022 | Xinhua

Afghanistan's Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul provinces have always been close to the heart of the world's opium, and later heroin, trade. Poppy cultivation has been…