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USAID's Best Practices for Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Work
Nov 14, 2022
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M. Mena
Gender inequality exacerbates the disproportionate impact of climate change on women and girls, and it is a barrier to achieving climate change goals. However, we…
Helping Asia-Pacific Women to Overcome Climate Disasters
Nov 14, 2022
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Sarah Knibbs, Dechen Tsering and Annamaria Oltorp
The disastrous floods in Pakistan have proven, yet again, that our climate crisis disproportionately hurts women. Of the 33 million people affected, nearly 70 per…
At COP27, Our Climate Future is Female: A Progress Report on Implementing U.S. Efforts to Advance Women and Girls’ Climate Action
Nov 14, 2022
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US Department of State
On November 14, 2022, Gender Day at COP27, the U.S. government is proud to announce the following strategies, initiatives, and programs addressing the disproportionate impacts…
My Land: Rural Women's Struggle
Nov 14, 2022
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Carlos Parra
As the strains of a typical Colombian vallenato play in the background, Yimis Severiche Montes holds up the title deed from the National Land Agency…
Liberia: Liberian Senate Raises Concerns over Mining Sector amid Widespread Illicit Activities
Nov 14, 2022
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Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa
The Liberian Senate is seeking information from the Ministry of Mines and Energy regarding the operation of the small to medium-scale mining sub-sector. This is…
Iraq: Expanding Deserts, Searing Temperatures, and Dying Land: Climate Crises Deepen Struggle of Farmers [Video]
Nov 14, 2022
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International Committee of the Red Cross
Iraq has been burdened with wars, sanctions, and domestic conflict for over 40 years, but the potential economic and environmental fallout of the climate crisis…
Afghanistan: Women Human Rights Defenders Arrested by the Taliban Must Be Immediately Released
Nov 14, 2022
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Amnesty International
Responding to the arrests of at least three prominent women human rights defenders Zarifa Yaqoobi, Farhat Popalzai and Humaira Yusuf and their colleagues by the…
Ukraine: Ukraine's Environmental Damage from War Will Take Years to Clean up [Photos]
Nov 14, 2022
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Associated Press
As the environmental harm brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine mounts, experts are warning of long-term health consequences for the population.
The United States: USAID Advances Global Climate Action and Gender Equality
Nov 14, 2022
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USAID
At COP27, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a suite of programs to advance gender-responsive climate action.
Filling the Basket of Knowledge: Workshop on Climate Change, Human Mobility and Peacebuilding in the Pacific
Nov 14, 2022
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Volker Boege, Toda Peace Institute
While UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his opening speech at this year’s COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheik on 7 November stated that humanity is…
Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, or Senegal: Gender and Migration Climate Security Scientist
Nov 13, 2022
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The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems…
CAR: Conservation Manager
Nov 13, 2022
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature Inc. is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the…
Lebanon: Programme Management Coordinator (Digital Transformation, Disaster & Conflict)
Nov 13, 2022
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental…
South Sudan: Landscape Manager, Western Equatoria
Nov 13, 2022
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Fauna & Flora International
Fauna & Flora International is an international conservation charity and non-governmental organization dedicated to protecting the planet's threatened wildlife and habitats. Founded in 1903, it…
Ukraine: Social Cohesion Associate
Nov 13, 2022
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United Nations Development Program
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so…
Guinea-Bissau: International Consultancy, Baseline Study for the Project “Creating Safe and Empowering Public Spaces with Women to Mitigate Climate-Security Risks and Sustain Peace”
Nov 13, 2022
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United Nations Development Program
The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. 48 years…
Myanmar: Head of Freshwater Programme
Nov 13, 2022
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World Wide Fund for Nature
WWF, an independent conservation organization, works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife. Working with others, WWF urgently seeks to…
DRC: Interim Director of Finance
Nov 13, 2022
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Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical problems,…
DRC: Director, Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Nov 13, 2022
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Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been active in the OWR for more than 30 years, supporting its creation, and subsequently working closely with ICCN…
DRC: Conservation Pilot, Okapi Wildlife Reserve
Nov 13, 2022
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Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical problems,…
DRC: Social Safeguards Manager
Nov 13, 2022
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Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit organization founded in 1895. Its mission is to preserve wildlife and wilderness by understanding critical problems,…
Myanmar: Consultancy, Charcoal’s Value Chain Market Assessment
Nov 13, 2022
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World Wide Fund for Nature
WWF, an independent conservation organization, works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife. Working with others, WWF urgently seeks to…
Niger: Energy and Sanitation Assistant
Nov 13, 2022
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United Nations Development Program
The UNDP is the United Nations agency dedicated to development issues. In Niger, UNDP operates through two portfolios, namely Governance, Peace and Security and Resilience.…
DRC: Head of Biomonitoring and Research Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Nov 13, 2022
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Wildlife Conservation Society
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is seeking a dynamic, hard-working, and experienced Head of Biomonitoring and Research to oversee and provide leadership of KBNP’s long-term…
USA: Program Officer, Climate, Environment, and Conflict
Nov 13, 2022
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United States Institute of Peace
Peace is USIP's commitment. The United States Institute of Peace represents the American people’s shared values and commitment to peace worldwide. USIP knows that Peace…
Ukraine: Kherson Mayor Warns of ‘Critical’ Water Shortages - as It Happened
Nov 13, 2022
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Joe Middleton, Emine Sinmaz, and Adam Fulton, Guardian
Roman Holovnia said the humanitarian situation in the liberated city was ‘severe’ with a lack of medicine and bread
Myanmar: Junta Threatens Farmers in Ayeyarwady with Land Seizure Unless They Grow Sunflower
Nov 12, 2022
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Mizzima
The Myanmar government officials under the Military Council reportedly threatened farmers with the seizing of their farmland unless they grow sunflowers. The township administrators appointed…
Colombia: Cecilia López Announced That the Goal of the Massive Titling of 681,372 Hectares Was Met
Nov 12, 2022
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The Times Hub
This Friday from Valledupar the Minister of Agriculture, Cecilia López Montaño, announced that the goal of the massive titling of 681,372 hectares for peasants, indigenous…
At COP27, 41 Grassroots Women’s Organizations Launch New Global South Alliance for Indigenous and Local Women and Girls
Nov 11, 2022
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Rights and Resources
SHARM-EL-SHEIKH (November 11, 2022) — On November 11 at CoP27, 41 grassroots women’s organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America launched a new advocacy network…
Ukraine: Ukraine War's Environmental Toll to Take Years to Clean up
Nov 11, 2022
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Sam Mednick, Associated Press
Environmental damage caused by Ukraine’s war is mounting, and experts warn of long-term health consequences for the population.