In this webinar, IUCN, USAID, and a wide range of experts and leaders from across disciplines discuss these critical linkages, exploring policy frameworks, leveraging lessons and resources across sectors, and strategies for on-the-ground action to realize rights and resilience, together.
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.
In this International Women’s Day blog from USAID, the AGENT partnership on Advancing Gender in the Environment with IUCN is featured among initiatives geared to address women’s leadership in solving the climate crisis.
In eastern Uganda, where land is governed by a customary land tenure system, women experience violence when claiming land rights. Trocaire is working with the Land Equity Movement of Uganda (LEMU) and Soroti Catholic Diocese Integrated Development Organization (SOCADIDO) to respond to these challenges.
Meet Trang Nguyen, the Founder and Executive Director of WildAct, Vietnam. Trang is leading a RISE grant-winning project and shares insights on why she is passionate about ending harassment in conservation workplaces.
In South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Women for Women International and the Innovation and Training for Development and Peace are working together to gather the perspectives of 138 women, as well as male and female focus groups to change land rights norms.
This tool provides an array of specific interventions that environment programs, donors and practitioners could consider to strengthen attention to addressing GBV across environment-related contexts.
In Nepal many rural women are very dependent on natural resources such as firewood, fodder, water and traditional medicines, but they are often excluded from decision-making about their forests, and sometimes have difficulty accessing the resources they need. As part of its GESI work the Hariyo Ban Program realized it needed to tackle gender-based violence in order for women to participate more fully and safely in community forest management and sharing of forest benefits.
En el presente informe de la SRJS se examinan los desafíos diferenciados por género a los que se enfrentan las defensoras de los derechos humanos del medio ambiente, incluida la violencia de género, y se formulan recomendaciones para que la sociedad civil y los gobiernos refuercen las protecciones.
This SRJS brief reviews the gender-differentiated challenges women environmental human rights defenders face, including gender-based violence, and recommendations for civil society and governments to strengthen protections.
