Events
GWA’s 2020 Conference on Water & Peace: Promoting Security through Equitable Policy, Governance and Technology
Sep 24, 2020
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Global Water Alliance
online
All people and every ecology share a stake in the proper management of water to safeguard supply quality, fair access, and peace. A history of…
El Rol de las Mujeres en la Gestión de los Bosques de Montaña: Una Mirada desde Lo Rural y lo Urbano/ The Role of Women in the Management of Mountain Forests: A View from the Rural and Urban Areas
Sep 23, 2020
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Bosques Andinos
online
En la región andina, específicamente en los bosques andinos, existen muchos aprendizajes y experiencias en torno a la equidad de género. El Programa Bosques Andinos…
Forest Data and Transparency: ‘Zoom in’ on the Experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sep 23, 2020
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Food and Agriculture Organizations of the UN
online
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as in many other African countries, the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation is a major…
Equidad de Género y Derechos Humanos en Tiempos de Covid-19 y Cambio Climático/ Gender Equity and Human Rights in Times of Covid-19 and Climate Change
Sep 22, 2020
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La Alianza ACT
Online
Ha pasado menos de un año desde la COP25, pero la importancia simbólica y política del Plan de Acción de Género y la Plataforma de…
Ecological Threats to Peace
Sep 22, 2020
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US Institute of Peace
online
Global warming, extreme weather events, and rising sea levels are already adversely affecting food and water security throughout the world—leaving the least resilient countries with…
Untangling the Impact of Illegal Fishing in North Korean Waters
Sep 22, 2020
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Stimson Center
online
In 2017, the UN Security Council banned North Korea from selling fishing permits, but new monitoring methods show that hundreds of vessels originating from China…
International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations: Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tree Plantations and Women-Led Resistance to Industrial Forestry
Sep 21, 2020
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Global Forest Coalition
Online
September 21st marks International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, a day to celebrate resistance against the establishment and expansion of harmful commercial monocultures.…
A Force to Reckon with: Women in the Climate Change Workforce
Sep 21, 2020
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Climate Action Reserve
Online
Largely due to gender inequalities around the world, women bear a disproportionate burden of climate change. As main providers of food and fuel, women are…
Transforming Power to Put Women at the Heart of Peacebuilding
Sep 21, 2020
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OXFAM; LSE; UKRI; IMatter
Online
This webinar launches a series of discussion papers from Sub Saharan Africa, MENA and the Pacific on what feminist peace and security is. As we…
Disasters, Gender, Peace & Conflict
Sep 21, 2020
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne
online
The number and intensity of disasters is increasing worldwide, while levels of armed conflict and gendered violence remain high. Regions with a history of armed…
Climate Security in Colombia
Sep 17, 2020
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CGIAR
online
Colombia is another case with complex linkages between agriculture, forests and conflict. Recently emerging from decades of conflict between The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia…
Climate Change and Security: Integrating a Gender Lens
Sep 17, 2020
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Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2020; UNEP
Online
A growing body of evidence documents the interlinkages between gender inequality, climate change and peace and security. In many cases, the impacts of climate change…
Gender Integration into National Climate Actions. Regional Workshop, Americas and the Caribbean
Sep 16, 2020
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UNFCCC
Online
Under the enhanced Lima work programme on gender and its gender action plan (Decision 3/CP.25); Parties and relevant organizations were requested to submit their inputs…
Beijing+25: Commemorating a Watershed Moment for Women’s Rights
Sep 10, 2020
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Online
The UN Fourth World Conference on Women, hosted in Beijing in 1995, electrified a generation of activists, catalyzed the creation of new women’s rights organizations,…
Women in Sustainability - Diversity and Inclusion: A Sustainability Crisis
Sep 9, 2020
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Women in Sustainability
Online
This fall, we explore the intersectionality of social issues and environmental issues in many different aspects. Our fall series begins with Women in Sustainability members…
Hydrodiplomacy
Sep 9, 2020
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Sustainable Water Partnership and USAID
online
“Water governance sets the “rules of the game” for the way water is managed. It determines how or even whether sustainable water resource management is…
"Queering Peacebuilding": Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Peacebuilding
Sep 9, 2020
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Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Online
Although the integration of gender perspectives has, at least on paper, been a prominent aspect of peacebuilding for several decades, there has often been little…
Burning Sand: MENA and Climate Change
Sep 8, 2020
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Center for Climate & Security
online
By the end of the century, the Persian Gulf could be too hot for human habitation. Water sources like the Golan Heights and the Nile…
Gender and Inclusion in the COVID-19 Response
Sep 7, 2020
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RedR UK
Online
This module examines how COVID-19 is impacting on women, girls, boys and men differently, limiting access to services and information, increasing women's work burden, eroding…
Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2020 - Part II
Sep 7, 2020
- Oct 2, 2020
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German Federal Foreign Office, adelphi, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
online
Building on the high-level political Part I of BCSC 2020 and the launch of the Global Climate Security Risk and Foresight Assessment during the event,…
CGIAR Webinar Series on Climate Security: Climate Security in the Sahel
Sep 3, 2020
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CGIAR
online
The Sahel is a particular case where the interaction between climate-conflict can be strongly observed. With a high-dependence on rain-fed agriculture and livestock, climate variability,…
The Business of Gender Equality
Sep 3, 2020
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The University of Sydney Business School
Online
Explore the impact COVID-19 has had on gender equality and join Janelle Weissman, Executive Director, UN Women Australia as she leads The Business of Gender Equality discussion with Professor…
Mobilizing Women’s Rights in Bangladesh: Lunch & Learn
Sep 2, 2020
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Manitoba Council for International Cooperation
Online
Join the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation and special guest David Bruer of Inter Pares, for a discussion about rights-based work in Bangladesh. David will share how they…
Gender Integration into National Climate Actions. Regional Workshop, Europe and Central Asia
Sep 2, 2020
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UNFCCC
Online
Under the enhanced Lima work programme on gender and its gender action plan (Decision 3/CP.25); Parties and relevant organizations were requested to submit their inputs…
US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution: Crafting Collaborative Solutions to Environmental Conflicts
Sep 1, 2020
- Sep 3, 2020
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Udall Foundation
Tucson, Arizona
Participants experience training that is dynamic, problem-based, and highly interactive. Each course provides opportunities to practice new ECCR skills through exercises that simulate real-life situations,…
Reconciling Race, Class, Gender, and Climate Change
Aug 29, 2020
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University of Toronto Environmental Action
Online
In responding to COVID-19, governments and civil society have been forced to address the inefficiencies and inequalities pervasive in our system. As such, we cannot…
Covid-19, Gender and Human Rights
Aug 28, 2020
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The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Online
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), in collaboration with partners and researchers in Belarus, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Zimbabwe,…
WWWeek: Reducing the Risks of Climate-Related Water Conflicts (A Road to Geneva Event)
Aug 28, 2020
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association Water Interest Group, Pacific Institute, Global Water 2020, Geneva Water Hub, Nicholas School of the Environment and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy, and the Water, Peace, and Security Partnership
online
This event was recorded and can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/uGjpPp6SUJo
When: 11:00 EST
Evidence continues to accumulate that human-caused climate changes are influencing tensions and violence over water…
Women for Forests and Future Generations: Defending Communities from Pandemics and Climate Chaos
Aug 27, 2020
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Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
Online
Global forests are on the brink of ecological catastrophe, and because of this, further driving the climate crisis and environmental degradation. Record setting fire seasons,…
The Behavioural Challenges of Post-Conflict Life
Aug 27, 2020
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Overseas Development Institute
online
It is often assumed that people’s lives will automatically improve after violent conflict. However, many people who have experienced conflict continue to experience fluctuating livelihoods…