Regions: Australia

‘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.

News Article

Consideration of the determinants of women’s mental health in remote Australian mining towns

Academic paper exploring various mining work-related issues and sociocultural settings and processes within remote mining towns that can affect the psychological health of female partners of mine workers and their relationship well-being.

Academic paper

Negotiating Gender: Experience from Western Australian Mining Industry

Academic article on the negative impacts of the mining industry in Western Australia. Authors argue that mining areas have become men’s towns with little opportunities for women and local younger generations. A gender analysis based on ecofeminism and feminist political economy reveals the urgent need for the mining industry to transform itself in order to meet sustainability imperatives.

Academic paper

The resource boom’s underbelly: Criminological impacts of mining development

Academic article on the social impacts of the increase of extractive industries in remote areas in Australia. These negative impacts include a rise in violence and crime, including gender-based violence (GBV).

Academic paper

Gendering the field: Towards sustainable livelihoods for mining communities

Compilation of academic papers that were presented at an international workshop on ʹMining, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoodsʹ in 2008. These articles highlight key issues and implications of integrating gender to foster sustainable livelihoods in both large-scale and informal, artisanal and small-scale mining across different regions. Gender-based violence (GBV) is identified in many of these articles, in connection with extractives.

Academic paper

Fishing for justice: Human rights, development, and fisheries sector reform

Academic article highlighting human rights abuses, including forced evictions, detention without trial, child labour, forced labour and unsafe working conditions, and violence and personal security, including gender-based violence (GBV), as key areas of concern in fishing communities in India, the Philippines, Cambodia and South Africa.

Academic paper

Research, action and policy: Addressing the gendered impacts of climate change

Book on gender and climate change research and action. Divided in five parts, it discusses the gendered impacts of climate change, gender justice, gender mainstreaming within climate policy, gendered climate change actions and gender and climate change research. It presents voices of women from every continent and from different climate events and challenges. Linkages between gender-based violence (GBV) and climate change are identified in some of the chapters.

Academic paper

Five women setting net-zero emissions targets in states and regions

This article celebrates women Ministers from the Under2 Coalition addressing net-zero emissions in the context of International Women’s Day and IUCN’s recent study highlighting the importance of addressing climate change as it contributes to exacerbating gender-based violence.

News Article

Explained: How climate change leads to more violence against women, girls

Rape, domestic violence, forced marriages, this article shares a review of IUCN’s study on the effects of climate change leading to an increase in violence against girls and women in many corners of the world. This story was developed by Deutsche Welle and adapted by the Indian Express.

News Article

Environmental degradation can drive gender-based violence, study finds

Highlighting examples from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, this CNN article recounts examples from IUCN’s study Gender-based violence and environment linkages: The violence of inequality on how increasing destruction of the environment and diminishing natural resources fuels a rise in violence against women.

News Article

Regions: Australia

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

Consideration of the determinants of women’s mental health in remote Australian mining towns

Negotiating Gender: Experience from Western Australian Mining Industry

The resource boom’s underbelly: Criminological impacts of mining development

Gendering the field: Towards sustainable livelihoods for mining communities

Fishing for justice: Human rights, development, and fisheries sector reform

Research, action and policy: Addressing the gendered impacts of climate change

Five women setting net-zero emissions targets in states and regions

Explained: How climate change leads to more violence against women, girls

Environmental degradation can drive gender-based violence, study finds

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