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"Insights into Gender and the Environment" is a new series of articles that explores the gender aspect of a wide variety of environmental issues from the perspective of women experts.These experts bring valuable insights to the global debate on gender and the environment and on relations between the genders that impact and are impacted by - the natural world and development efforts Our contributors cover topics that include: Gender Aspects of Global Environmental Governance, Gender Aspects of Land Rights & Management, Women, Agricultural Development and the Environment and others.
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Greater efforts needed to achieve gender balance within UN system
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today called for greater efforts to achieve gender balance within the United Nations system, stating that statistics show an “unacceptable” lack of progress in this area... more |
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Gender and Sustainable Land Management by Svanhild-Isabelle Batta Torheim and Anna Tengberg
The links between land degradation and gender are well documented in the “Land use change, impacts and dynamics (LUCID)” project that was implemented in East Africa by UNEP ...more |
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Gender and Post-Conflict Environment by Maliza Van Eden
A discussion of gender should not be equated with women only, as it refers more broadly to the societal relations between the two sexes... more |
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Real Men Unite by Monika G Wehrle-MacDevette
If States’ failure to incorporate the provisions of treaties they are party to is an indication of progress, then I think its time to go a step further. Hence, my call to action – for men. For men to stand up and firmly say to their peers, their brothers, their sons, their elders, that the time has come to stop, and say an unequivocal NO to the continuing abuse and degradation of women and girls in society...more |
| Disclaimer: The views expressed in these articles do not represent the official position of UNEP.
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