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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.

5 Ways USAID Empowers Women as Leaders Against the Climate Crisis

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.
  • | 2021

Profiles for change: Trang Nguyen, WildAct

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.

Indigenous women leading the way on climate change: A new ccGAP in Sonora

Sex trafficking in the Philippines: How typhoons and desperation make women and children more vulnerable

Blog article about the increased vulnerability of women and children to the impacts of weather-related disasters. It reports an increase in sex trafficking in the Philippines after the typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
  • | 2017

Hudbay Minerals faces Canadian trial for human rights abuses in Guatemala

Blog post about three lawsuits against Canadian-owned mining company, Hudbay Minerals, over human rights abuses, including the gang rape of 11 women, committed by security personnel in Guatemala.
  • | 2013

Women’s work in agribusinesses and gender-based violence: What do we know?

Blog post discussing the factors that contribute to gender-based violence (GBV) in the Agribusiness sector. It provides recommendations to address GBV.
  • | 2018

New FTS research explores child slavery in Ghana gold mining

Blog article about the findings of a report regarding child slavery in gold mines in Ghana. Children have been trafficked for hazardous forced labour and sexual exploitation.
  • | 2013

Gendered struggles and strategies to remain in place in small-scale fisheries

Blog post on women’s role in small-scale fisheries in Lake Victoria in Tanzania. The practice of sex-for-fish is identified as one of the challenges in the sector.
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