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Women's Rights Are Early Casualties of War
Mar 8, 2020
When conflict and crisis strike displacement, hunger, and poverty follow. But, all too often, it is women’s rights that become the early casualties of war.…
Can Green Development Be Fair Development?
Mar 8, 2020
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Helen Schneider
Aceh is Indonesia’s westernmost province, situated on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra where the Andaman Sea, Malacca Straits and Indian Ocean converge.…
Papua New Guinea: No Sustainable Development or Peace without Women - UN Deputy Chief
Mar 8, 2020
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UN News
The Deputy Secretary-General was part of a three-woman UN delegation to Papua New Guinea which, due to its geographic location, was among the first countries…
Power Structures Over Gender Make Women More Vulnerable to Climate Change
Mar 8, 2020
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Adelle Thomas
The 2020 International Women’s Day theme: I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights is closely linked to climate change impacts and the need for ambitious climate action.
As…
Strategies for Integrating Gender in Sustainable Ecosystem Management
Mar 8, 2020
Understanding men and women’s different roles and responsibilities related to the use, management and conservation of ecosystems and addressing the barriers to gender equality are…
Power Structures Over Gender Make Women More Vulnerable to Climate Change
Mar 8, 2020
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Adelle Thomas
The 2020 International Women’s Day theme: I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights is closely linked to climate change impacts and the need for ambitious climate action.
As…
Philippines: In the Defense of the Environment: Women Activists on the Front Lines
Mar 8, 2020
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Gaea Katreena Cabico, Phil Star Global
MANILA, Philippines — Jinky Malibato has been seeking sanctuary in the United Church of Christ in the Philippines in Davao City for five years, the…
Libya: Libyan Women Push for a Bigger Role in Rebuilding Their Country
Mar 8, 2020
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Sarah Page
The United Nations’ latest efforts to broker a cease-fire between the armies warring for control of Libya have floundered. Yet despite the continuing conflict, or…
Afghanistan: (Human Rights Watch) Afghanistan Peace Negotiations Must Include Women and Rights Activists
Mar 8, 2020
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Tamil Guardian
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called upon authorities negotiating an Afghanistan peace agreement to centre discussions on human rights and in particular to be inclusive…
Climate Change: Climate Change Is Fuelling Social Tensions and Conflict
Mar 8, 2020
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Tanaka Manungo, Mail & Guardian
Climate change has wreaked havoc across the world — and Africa is likely to be worst hit by its destructive consequences. There have been droughts,…
Power Structures over Gender Make Women More Vulnerable to Climate Change
Mar 8, 2020
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Adelle Thomas
As the global community assesses progress made for women’s rights during the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, it is timely to take stock…
Want to Go for Inclusive Climate Action? Then Start with Integrating Gender Equality into Climate Finance
Mar 8, 2020
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Verania Chaeo and Koh Miyaoi
Gender equality and women’s rights have progressed immensely since the adoption of the most visionary agenda on women’s empowerment, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for…
DPRK: Programme Manager - Livelihoods
Mar 7, 2020
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Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in…
Myanmar: Project Manager / Chief Technical Advisor, Governance for Resilience and Sustainability Project (GRSP)
Mar 7, 2020
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UNDP
The UNDP Country Office in Myanmar is a key interlocutor and advisor to the government at the national and sub-national on sustainable and inclusive growth,…
Turkey: Senior Upstream Officer – Infrastructure (Central and Eastern Europe)
Mar 7, 2020
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International Finance Commission
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging…
Rwanda: Advisor (m/f/d) Extractive Resource Governance and Responsible Minerals Supply Chains
Mar 7, 2020
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.
Job description
The Great Lakes…
Consultant/Researcher: Supporting EITI Actors to Diagnose Extractive Sector Corruption Risks
Mar 7, 2020
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Natural Resource Governance Institute
The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a not-for-profit group that promotes transparency and good governance in the oil, gas and mining sector. NRGI seeks…
DRC: Water Utility Finance and Operations Director - (French Fluency required)
Mar 7, 2020
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…
Iraq: WASH Program Manager
Mar 7, 2020
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Terre des hommes
Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is the leading Swiss child relief organization, based in Lausanne (Switzerland). Every year our projects support more than 2 million…
South Sudan: Emergency Response Team’s WASH Project Manager
Mar 7, 2020
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Medair
Medair is a Swiss humanitarian organisation inspired by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. Since 1989, they have been…
Syria: Rehabilitation WASH Program Manager
Mar 7, 2020
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Solidarités International
SI has been rehabilitating water treatment and irrigation stations in several locations in NES, as a complement to its emergency activities (water trucking and emergency…
Burkina Faso: Assistant Researcher
Mar 7, 2020
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InterPeace
Interpeace is an international organisation for peacebuilding that strengthens the ability of societies to manage conflict themselves in sustainable and non-violent ways. Interpeace designs and…
Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women
Mar 6, 2020
Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate change is…
Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms: Can Climate-Smart Agriculture Produce Gender Equality?
Mar 6, 2020
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Sophia Huyer, Samuel Partey, and Bruce Campbell
As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on women. Most research focuses on women’s vulnerability as a result…
Making Gender Equality Integral to Global Agricultural Research
Mar 6, 2020
Our food systems face unprecedented challenges, from increasingly unpredictable weather to acute biodiversity loss. To feed a population of over 9.6 billion people in 2050, the…
Bangladesh: The Women Fighting Climate Change in Bangladesh
Mar 6, 2020
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Marigold Warner, British Journal of Photography
In disaster-prone areas like Barishal, a major city that lies on the bank of Kirtankhola river in Bangladesh, life for women is a constant struggle.…
Colombia: Where Indigenous Women Take Lead on Land Rights, Communities Thrive
Mar 6, 2020
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Andrew J. Wight
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA – Across the globe, women are on the front lines of protecting traditional and Indigenous land from threats like mining, ranching, and a…
Five Ways Gender Equity Can Help Save the Planet
Mar 6, 2020
Around the world, women are pulling above their weight to sustain communities despite barriers in access to nearly everything: education, information, paid work, credit, lands,…
Ethiopia: Trouble as Trump Dives into the Dispute over Ethiopia's Nile Mega-Dam
Mar 6, 2020
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Benita van Eyssen, Deutsche Welle
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric power plant being constructed on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. In mid-January, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan reached…
International Women's Day 2020: Women, War and Water in Yemen
Mar 6, 2020
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Leonie Nimmo
On International Women’s Day 2018 the UN Envoy to Yemen received an open letter calling on him to take a firm stand on women’s demands and to…