Tendencia en defensoras de la tierra, territorio y justicia
IM-Defensoras data on attacks and killings of women environmental human rights defenders in Central America between 2016 and 2021
Resource type: Brief
Tackling violence against women and girls in the context of climate change
Brief overview of the evidence of the impact of climate change on VAWG and makes recommendations across both the climate change and ending VAWG sectors.
Gender norms and women’s land rights: How to identify and shift harmful gender norms in the context of land and natural resources
Key concepts and tools on the relationship between gender norms and women’s land rights to identify and shift harmful norms in the context of land and natural resources.
Understanding and addressing gender-based violence as part of the climate emergency
CSW66 Expert paper that provides an overview of how climate change is exacerbating different types of gender-based violence and presents recommendations to the CSW community to address the GBV-climate crisis.
Men, Masculinities & Climate Change: A Discussion Paper
This paper aims to establish a rationale for understanding male roles in climate change to identify opportunities to engage them as agents of positive change, alongside women and girls, and further strengthen the call for social, economic and environmental justice for all.
Samoa: Strengthening Protection, Gender and Inclusion in Disaster Law
The Samoa Red Cross Society (SRCS) partnered with UNFPA to train national relief agencies, councils and ministries on identifying and responding to GBV during crises. Practitioners can draw inspiration from these approaches by focusing on strengthening strategies and training to improve policies and plans for GBV prevention and response measures.
How to identify and advance equitable social norms
This brief introduces the definition of social norms, including gender norms, and how they relate to GBV, as well as various tools to identify and address social norms.
Climate Change and Gender-Based Violence: What are the Risks?
The Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) Helpdesk has produced this introductory learning brief on the links between GBV and climate change as a introduction to increase literacy for GBV actors as a first step to define interventions. The brief also presents innovative programming case studies for reducing GBV in climate-related emergencies.
The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security provides an overview of the linkages within the climate-gender-conflict nexus. It explores the climate change and conflict nexus with a gender lens, identifies gaps in frameworks, policies, knowledge and evidence, and presents best practice studies from Colombia, Sudan and Nepal. The report calls for policymakers and practitioners to invest in research and policy on the nexus to build evidence on women's meaningful engagement for successfully addressing these challenges.
