Gender and Illegal Wildlife Trade: Overlooked and Underestimated
Synthesis and assessment of the gendered dynamics of the global illegal wildlife trade and a roadmap to bringing gender analysis into policies and programmes.
Stakeholder: Non-Governmental Organisations
Climate crisis affects women, women affect climate struggle
Climate change has gender-differentiated impacts on women and men and can increase gender-based violence. This article presents the experiences of two climate activists from Turkey at the forefront of climate and gender activism.
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
Addressing GBV in the context of the climate-biodiversity emergency: Leveraging and strengthening enabling policy frameworks for scaled-up rights-based action
Together, speakers explored the existing, emerging, and urgently needed policy frameworks and enabling conditions that are fundamental to facilitate collaborative rights-based action to address GBV and combat climate change and biodiversity loss.
Resilient, Inclusive & Sustainable Environments (RISE) Challenge Annual Report 2021
RISE Challenge Annual Report presents learning and achievements of grantee organisations on how cross-sector partnerships are developing capacities and changing policy and practice in diverse contexts.
Profiles for change: Lola Cabnal, Ak’Tenamit
Hear from Lola Cabnal, Asociación Ak’ Tenamit, about the intrinsic links Indigenous women have with Mother Earth – and how gender-based violence disrupts dignity, safety and agency at different levels, including in the defense of the environment.
Attitude Towards Sexual Harassment in Vietnam’s Conservation Sector
This report presents the results of a survey on sexual harassment in the conservation sector in Vietnam and provides recommendations to it at workplace, including an strategy to improve the working environment for all wildlife conservationists in the country.
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.
