Gender equality and equity are matters of fundamental human rights and social justice, as well as a pre-condition for sustainable development and the achievement of IUCN’s mission.
20 Feb
European universities are failing in the way they use human resources. Women are underrepresented at the top levels of academia, and there are good reasons to think that this damages universities. In the 27 countries making up the European Union, 59% of university graduates are women, but only 18% of full professors are women. And [...]
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17 Feb
The University of Chicago Press announces the competition for the 2013 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars. The Catharine Stimpson Prize [...]
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14 Feb
The government in support with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) is working to formulate a gender and climate change strategy to stress the need of gender-responsive policies and strategies in combating the climate change impact. A three-day workshop titled ‘Linking gender and climate change’ is being organised from Tuesday by the Ministry of Environment (MoE) [...]
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14 Feb
Even as women bear a disproportional burden of the impact of climate change, national programmes and policies on climate change hardly take into account this reality. Women, especially in the rural areas, spend far more time doing household chores than their male counterparts. Since their day-today activities such as fetching water from distant sources to [...]
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25 Jan
Thank you, Klaus, for your kind introduction and good morning to all. For years, the Heinrich Boll Foundation has been a highly respected thought leader focused on many critical issues of our time – this is certainly the case when it comes to addressing the complex challenges underpinning sustainable development. I want to thank you [...]
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13 Dec
Tuesday, 13 December 2011: It is with great sadness that the IUCN Gender Office learnt that Marie Khan, Gender Focal Point at the Convention on Biological Diversity, passed on earlier this week. To the IUCN Gender Office, Marie was much more than a colleague – she was part of our family. Marie was born in [...]
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8 Dec
Durban, South Africa. This event showcase successes achieved under the Global Gender and Climate Change -GGCA umbrella as well as bilateral cooperation through the Governments of Finland and Denmark demonstrating best practices examples and strategies for successfully integrating gender perspective into international and national-Level actions on climate change. In the event also participants had the [...]
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8 Dec
In most countries, women take care of the family, the cooking and cleaning. They are also farmers, water and fire collectors, as well as animal tenders. But when it comes to development or environmental issues, their voices are seldom heard. Lorena Aguilar, Senior Gender Advisor with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature is [...]
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8 Dec
Durban. For Malawian farmer Memory Magombo the challenge of putting food on the table means getting up at 5am, tying her three year old baby to her back, and working – often alone – in her field in Lilongwe. Right now as she toils hard to prepare her land for the growing season amid uncertainty [...]
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7 Dec
30 member organizations of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) are here in Durban to strengthen the COP17 decisions by ensuring all final decisions taken in Durban are gender equitable. Specifically, the GGCA urges governments to focus on promoting gender-equitable implementation of in the arenas of adaptation, the technology mechanism and climate finance. More [...]
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