Regions: Peru

Worthy of dignity and safety

In the first-ever IUCN World Conservation Congress thematic session focused on understanding and addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in relation to environmental issues and threats such as climate change, member organizations discussed the steps they are taking to safeguard staff, partners and beneficiaries; tackle discriminatory norms that allow for or employ violence; and cooperate across sectors to better advance rights-based gender-responsive programming and results.

Protecting people and biodiversity: Addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and conservation links

In Kenya and Peru, IUCN Members are working with local partners through the USAID Resilient, Inclusive & Sustainable Environments (RISE) Challenge to address GBV in environment-related programming. See a short story on how Conservation International, PROMSEX, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association, Fauna & Flora International, and others are taking action to protect people and biodiversity.

How climate change and gender-based violence are connected

As donors begin to explore the links between environmental issues and GBV, "we can't close our eyes" to the issue anymore. Experts say it’s time to tackle this endemic problem. See this Devex article on the GBV-ENV Center and RISE, including a deeper look at RISE grantee Conservation International and Promsex's work in Peru.
  • | 2021

Alto Mayo Landscape Without Gender Violence

AGENT Webinar: Gender Based-Violence and Environment Linkages – From knowledge to action, addressing gender-based violence in conservation

Advancing Gender in the Environment (AGENT), a partnership between USAID and IUCN, hosted this webinar event on International Human Rights Day to reflect on the end of this year's 16 Days Campaign to End Violence Against Women Campaign, as well as welcome these four new grantees from Guatemala, Kenya, Peru, and Vietnam

USAID Water and Development Technical Series: Gender Equality and Female Empowerment in WASH

This technical brief is a tool to support Mission WASH leads, gender advisors, and implementing partners in designing strategies, projects, and activities that both improve women’s and girls’ empowerment and achieve the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) water security, sanitation, and hygiene development objectives.
  • | 2020

Sexual exploitation towards enabling illegal mining activities in Peru

Superstition drives child sex trafficking in Peru’s gold rush

News article on child sex trafficking in gold mines in Peru associated to the superstition that sex with virgins brings luck.
  • | 2018

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.
  • | 2013

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