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Event: Gender, Science and Human Rights

A Women's History Month Round Table

In this session, experts will discuss how they came to their work on sustainability and how we can use science communications to create more secure communities.
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New recording

AGENT webinar: Stories and strategies for change with Hariyo Ban

In English, French, and Spanish: a conversation on addressing GBV in a Nepal forest conservation project
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The violence of inequality garnered coverage from more than 60 news articles in the first week of the report’s launch. Since then, this research and its coverage has inspired investments, investigations and actions, creating change every day. 

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Challenging gender-based violence for women’s engagement in environmental protection

Environmental protection is one area where women are generating different success stories while their engagement is obstructed by gender-based violence and unpaid care work - a view from IUCN Bangladesh.
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2021

‘A Dangerous Trajectory’: When Domestic Violence and Climate Change Converge

The impact of climate change and weather-related disasters on gender-based violence survivors and the increase of intimate partner violence in the aftermath of these events is clear. This article provides examples from the United States and Australia, including findings from IUCN publication "Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality". The author highlights policy gaps in the United States and calls for gender and environment programmatic and policy and actions.
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2021

 

 

 

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