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Empowering Women and Youth for Transformative Climate and Environment Justice

May 14, 2020 | Tracy Kajumba

At the beginning of March, Tracy Kajumba was a panellist at the OECD Global Forum on Environment. Here she reflects further on how women and…


Myanmar: Myanmar Arrests More Illegal Timber Traders During COVID-19

May 13, 2020 | Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times

The authorities have seized more illegally logged timber and arrested more timber traders since the COVID-19 outbreak in Myanmar in late March.  During the stay-home…


Women: The Climate Solution We Need to Talk About

May 12, 2020 | Joky François

Women make up nearly half of the agricultural labor force in developing nations—yet in many countries they can’t even own the land on which they toil;…


Papua New Guinea: Women Play Key Role in Crafting Peaceful, Sustainable Future for Papua New Guinea

May 12, 2020 | United Nations

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s briefing, as prepared for delivery, to the Peacebuilding Commission on the joint mission to Papua New Guinea, in…


Myanmar: Adapting Myanmar Resilience Projects in Response to COVID-19

May 12, 2020 | Cordaid

Cordaid, in partnership with Caritas Myanmar (KMSS), has been working on Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction. In 13 villages, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) committees have…


Securing Pathways to Environmental Justice for Indigenous Women

May 11, 2020 | Laura Cahier

Across the Americas, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or the World Bank (WB), finance public and private projects to…


Water Fetching Responsibilities Reveal Unequal Gender Dynamics: Elevates Need for Expansion of On-Site WASH Facilities

May 10, 2020

Women in low-income households have limited access to financial services and educational opportunities, which in turn restricts their ability to tap into the labor market…


Canada: Violence Against Indigenous Women During COVID-19 Sparks Calls for MMIWG Plan

May 10, 2020 | Teresa Wright, CBC

With reports of a sharp rise in violence against Indigenous women as COVID-19 restrictions keep families stuck in their homes, concerns are being raised about…


What the COVID-19 Pandemic Tells Us About Gender Equality

May 9, 2020 | Ann Linde and Arancha González Laya

Regardless of where one looks, it is women who bear most of the responsibility for holding societies together, be it at home, in health care,…


Equality in a Post-Pandemic Era: Gender, COVID-19, Agriculture, and Climate Change

May 8, 2020

Globally, one in three women works in agriculture, which tends to be informal, low paid, and especially vulnerable to shocks. For example, when droughts and…


Former SIPRI Researcher Arthur H. Westing—In Memoriam

May 8, 2020 | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

SIPRI mourns the passing of former SIPRI expert Arthur H. Westing (United States), who died on 30 April 2020 at the age of 91.


Myanmar: Water Shortages in upper Myanmar

May 8, 2020 | Aung Phay Kyi Soe, Myanmar Times

Artesian wells donated to the village by actor Khin Hlaing currently produce 1,200 gallons per day. They initially produced 1,800 gallons, before one of the…


The COVID-19 Response: What Has Women, Peace and Security Got to Do With it?

May 7, 2020 | Naomi Clugston, Michelle Spearing

The United Kingdom is one of the 25 countries deemed least vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of rising death tolls, a stretched National Health…


Afghanistan: Afghan Farmers Return to Poppy Fields amid Coronavirus Pandemic

May 7, 2020 | Mohammad Sadiq Rashtinai and Abubakar Siddique, Ganhara

In a sign that some rural Afghan farmers are attempting to protect themselves amid the looming uncertainty wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, poppy cultivation has…


EnPAx Icon EnPAx Mourns the Passing of Arthur H. Westing

May 6, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Members of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association are mourning the passing of Arthur H. Westing.  Arthur died April 30, in Shelburne, Vermont; he was 91.

Arthur was…


In Memoriam: Arthur H. Westing (1928–2020)

May 6, 2020 | Nils Petter Gleditsch

An in memoriam of  Arthur H. Westing, forest ecologist and pioneer in the field of environmental peacebuilding.

As Nils Petter Gleditsch writes:  

"On factual academic matters, I was…


COVID-19 Shows Why Protecting Water in Conflict Is Vital

May 6, 2020 | Mara Tignino and Tadesse Kebebew

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted normal livelihoods around the world and hammered home the centrality of water and water infrastructure for human existence. In conflict-affected…


Geodiversity Also Needs Protection during Armed Conflicts

May 6, 2020 | Kevin Kiernan

The IUCN motion on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflict acknowledges that in addition to the harm that armed conflict causes to biota it “also…


Plans to Prevent Future Pandemics Must Consider Gender Issues, Too (Commentary)

May 6, 2020 | Tyler Nuckols

As COVID-19 continues to wrack our lives, the topic of the illegal wildlife trade and its connection to the coronavirus has garnered recent headlines. Many organizations,…


Why Gender Should Be at the Heart of COVID Recovery

May 6, 2020 | Angela Kalisch

The tourism industry has been catapulted into a global emergency by COVID-19. After decades of stable growth, only temporarily interrupted by incidents of terrorism, pandemics…


Guyana at a Turning Point: Oil and Security

May 6, 2020 | Andrew Holland

Five years ago, Guyana moved to the center of the oil world when a consortium led by ExxonMobil announced the first of a series of…


Coronavirus Pandemic Is Pushing up the Price of Illegal Drugs, UN Says

May 6, 2020 | Reuters

Coronavirus-related border controls, lockdowns and flight shortages are making illegal drugs more expensive and difficult to obtain around the world, the United Nations Office on…


Gaza: Israel Billionaire Hopes to Bring Drinking Water in the War-Torn Gaza Strip

May 6, 2020 | Zaini Majeed, Republic World

In a solution to the Gaza strip’s water crisis, a Georgian-Israeli billionaire proposed that he would deliver hundreds of generators to produce the chronic water supply in…


Supporting Women Environmental Defenders in the Time of COVID-19

May 5, 2020 | Sara Vigil and Bernadette P. Resurrección

Both the feminist and environmental movements are amongst the most prominent challengers of this commodification. However, environmental defenders face discrimination, violence and high risks, especially women…


Iraq: Iraq’s Economy Is Collapsing under the Double Blow of Sinking Oil Prices and Coronavirus Lockdown

May 5, 2020 | Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim, Washington Post

The coronavirus epidemic has pushed Iraq’s economy to the brink of catastrophe, experts say, with the outbreak aggravating the risk of public desperation and renewed…


Colombia: Coronavirus and the Colombian Countryside

May 5, 2020 | Alex Diamond, North American Congress in Latin America

Coronavirus has changed economic relations in rural Colombia, pushing campesinos to question extractive economies and offering an alternative model of production.


EnPAx Icon Staying Connected During Covid-19: Learn and Engage through the MOOC on Environmental Security & Sustaining Peace

May 5, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

As we collectively continue through an extraordinary public health emergency, we recognize that everyone's lives and routines are in flux.  We are all striving to…


No, Cobalt Is Not a Conflict Mineral

May 5, 2020 | Patricia Ndagano

Wakanda’s vibranium extolled in Black Panther may be fictional but is not very far from reality. A remarkable metal used in emerging technologies – from cell phones…


Liberia: Land Tenure Consultant

May 4, 2020 | Landesa Rural Development Institute

Landesa helps the world’s poorest people gain land rights; reducing poverty and conflict, increasing economic activity, empowering women, strengthening food security, and improving environmental stewardship.…


How COVID-19 Puts Women's Housing, Land, and Property Rights at Risk

May 4, 2020 | Victoria Stanley and Paul Prettitore

Around the world, land serves as a foundation for security, shelter, income and livelihoods. But rights to land are not equitably distributed to all. This…