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Reducing Post-Harvest Losses through Better Gender Integration

Apr 29, 2020 | Maria Jones, Ismat Ara Begum, Monjurul Alam, C.K. Saha, and Abdul Awal

Post-harvest management is an important, although less visible, step in ensuring a community’s food security. Poor post-harvest management reduces both the quantity and quality of…

Women in Ukraine's Military: An Opportunity for Change

Apr 28, 2020 | Hannah Hrytsenko

While UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security urges countries to increase the participation of women in the military through a top-down approach, in…

India’s COVID–19 Gender Blind Spot

Apr 27, 2020 | Bansari Kamdar

The second most populous country in the world, India, has been under a nationwide lockdown since March 24, 2020 – one it intends to continue…

Can We Make Peace with the Coronavirus?

Apr 27, 2020 | Erica Sheeran and Jeremy Moore

The field of environmental peacebuilding understands the degradation of our planet’s environment as a common human foe against which groups divided by conflict can be mobilized. “Nature…

There Have Been Repeated Warnings About the Environmental Risks Posed by Flooded Coal Mines in Eastern Ukraine, Are We Now Seeing Evidence That It Is Happening?

Apr 27, 2020 | Eoghan Darbyshire

On the 12th March reports emerged on social media of contamination and discoloration at a reservoir in the town of Yenakiyevo, northwest of Donetsk. A follow up article by Free…

Africa: Triple Threat - Conflict, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

Apr 26, 2020 | Nontobeko Mlambo

The new coronavirus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than three million people worldwide – 31,000 in Africa by 26 April – with Egypt, South Africa,…

Improve Gender Equality to Better our Island

Apr 25, 2020 | Lauren Swaddell

The Guam Green Growth Initiative was launched earlier this year, and dozens of leaders from the government, business, nonprofit and academic community came together to…

Taxes, COVID-19 and Nuclear Weapons Funding -- Our Nation's Priorities

Apr 25, 2020 | Robert Dodge

This is the time in April we traditionally fund our nation’s priorities. There is nothing traditional this year. In the midst of the international COVID-19…

Russia's Arctic Development Poses Risks for Combating Climate Change in the Baltics

Apr 24, 2020 | Viktorija Rusinaite

The EU is hoping to curb effects of climate change by implementing the European Green Deal — a policy package aimed at reaching a carbon-neutral economy by…

The Limits of Energy Independence

Apr 23, 2020 | Economist

Even when American policy in the Middle East has been about more than oil, it has been about oil. That has sometimes been jarringly obvious, as…

On Earth Day and Every Day, We Need to Focus on the Intersection of Gender Data and the Environment

Apr 22, 2020 | Elizabeth Black

The effects of climate change are widespread, but not all are well-known. Nowhere is this clearer than in the lack of gender data on how…

Making Gender a Key Focus of Inclusive WASH Practices and Facilities

Apr 21, 2020

The United Nations recognises that girls and women with disabilities are among the most vulnerable and marginalised members of society. CBM Australia recognises the value…

How Oil and Water Create a Complex Conflict in the Niger Delta

Apr 21, 2020 | Abosede Omowumi Babatunde

In the Niger Delta’s coastal communities, oil pollution of the marine environment has depleted the fishing and water resources that people have traditionally depended on for their…

How to Soften the Impact of Coronavirus During Conflict

Apr 20, 2020 | Gerardo Noto

The COVID-19 crisis will be felt in education, human rights and, in the most severe cases, basic food security and nutrition, especially for the estimated…

Colombia's Environmental Crisis Accelerates Under Duque

Apr 20, 2020 | Evan King and Samantha Wherry

On 16 February 2020, six gunmen fatally shot Albeiro Silva Mosquera and his brother Luis Hugo and severely injured Indigenous leader and activist Daniel Remigio…

A Gender-Equal Ethiopian Parliament Can Improve the Lives of All Women

Apr 19, 2020 | James Jeffrey

Recent gains by women in the Ethiopian political landscape offer a chance to improve gender equality around the country and put an end to long-standing…

Demilitarizing the Response to Climate Change

Apr 17, 2020 | Peace Science Digest

A range of policy options are available to countries to address and respond to climate change. Looking specifically at the U.S., the authors of this…

Conflict to Conservation: How Guerrilla Fighters Became Environmentalists

Apr 17, 2020 | Eleanor Whitworth

The unlikely protectors of Columbia’s wildlife and flora. They were guerrilla fighters in a lengthy civil war. Now they're protecting Colombia's pristine, richly biodiverse jungles and…

COVID-19 Shows How Reckless Jordan Valley Annexation Would Be

Apr 17, 2020 | Gidon Bromberg, Yana Abu Taleb, and Nada Majdalani

“Cutting off the nose to spite the face” is an apt expression to describe the lack of rationale behind Israeli government policies calling for unilateral…

A Gender Lens for COVID-19

Apr 16, 2020 | Susan Papp and Marcy Hersh

When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat. Often the last factor they consider – if it makes…

Women Leaders Are Doing a Disproportionately Great Job at Handling the Pandemic. So Why Aren’t There More of Them?

Apr 15, 2020 | Leta Hong Fincher

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power discuss how seven female world leaders are spearheading a strong response to…

Gender Relations in Forestry: Beyond a Headcount

Apr 15, 2020 | Kate Evans

Women can play a huge role as ‘critical actors’ in defending and managing their forests, says Ph.D. candidate and gender researcher Priyanka Bhalla from the…

Pandemic Hits Women Harder, Says WSI

Apr 15, 2020

Is a gender viewpoint needed to examine the COVID-19 risks and impacts on fisheries and aquaculture? According to Natalia Briceño-Lagos and Marie Christine Monfort of…

In Frozen Negotiations over the Donbas, Environment Is Everything

Apr 15, 2020 | Gabriella Gricius

Despite the many issues plaguing negotiations to bring ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine to an end, one aspect that positively contributes to mutual cooperation and…

Environmental Effects of Chinese Projects in Myanmar

Apr 15, 2020 | Megha Gupta

The Chinese “project of the century” — the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is a transcontinental network of roads, railways and ports, covering dams,…

Women, Peace, and Security: Gender and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Apr 13, 2020 | Tracy Beattie, Hal Crichton-Standish, Daria Impiombato, Alexandra Pascoe, and Albert Zhang

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, a number of commentators have stressed the need for gender analysis of the issue. Writing for The Atlantic, Helen Lewis discusses the…

The Greatest Story Never Told

Apr 13, 2020 | Meaghan Parker

“If the pope is interested, everyone is interested,” said Alexandre Roulin, accepting the 2019 Environmental Peacebuilding Research Award in Irvine, California. The University of Lausanne…

COVID-19 & ASM: Illicit Traders Cashing in on Vulnerable Miners in Conflict-Prone Areas

Apr 10, 2020 | Alan Martin and Joanne Lebert

We are particularly concerned about the pandemic’s impact on livelihoods, how it will fuel the illicit trade of minerals, and undermine peace and security in…

Women Leaders Call on UN Security Council to Address Covid-19 Crisis

Apr 9, 2020 | Group of Women Leaders, Voices for Change and Inclusion

This letter to President of the United Nations Security Council Mr. José Singer Weisinger was signed electronically on 8 April 2020 by a growing group…

Unfulfilled Ambition: Yemen's National Action Plan for Women Leaves Much to Be Desired

Apr 9, 2020 | Maha Awadh

As Yemen enters its sixth year of a vicious war, turning it into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, women bear the greater burden of the…