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The impacts of tree plantations on women & women-led resistance to monocultures

20 Sep 2020

September 21st marks International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, a day to celebrate resistance against the establishment and expansion of harmful commercial monocultures. To commemorate the occasion and amplify the struggles of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and in particular women, this year we are launching our new report on the specific impacts of tree plantations on women, and women-led resistance to industrial forestry. The report has contributions from nine GFC member groups from different regions showing how these …

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Women2030 global shadow report: Gender equality on the ground

15 Jul 2020

Feminist findings and recommendations for achieving Agenda 2030 This global shadow report aims to capture the inspiring and diverse range of work that has taken place through the Women2030 programme…

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New gender equality report on Latin America cites gap between UN goals and local realities

8 Jul 2020

July 8, 2020 — A report released today sheds light on gender equality in Latin America through community-based assessments in five countries, suggesting that a significant gap remains between progress…

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Latin America report: gender assessments reveal gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions

7 Jul 2020

World leaders have gathered virtually for this year’s edition of the UN’s High-Level Political Forum. Top on the agenda is assessing how progress is being made globally to achieve gender…

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Respect for women’s rights at stake: The gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions

7 Jul 2020

by Juana Vera Delgado, Global Forest Coalition (Русский ниже) Assessing progress on gender equality and the impacts of COVID-19 are top on the agenda at the UN’s High-Level Political Forum…

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Forest loss for large-scale agriculture and extractive industries goes hand in hand with violence against women

5 Jun 2020

by John C. Cannon, originally published on Mongabay Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss Women in the province of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea…

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Our Nature is Not Your Solution – and FAO’s Plantations are even less of a Solution!

22 May 2020

By Ruth Nyambura, Global Forest Coalition (GFC), Kenya On the 22nd of May each year the world celebrates the International Day of Biological Diversity and this year’s celebrations are significant…

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Forest Cover 61: #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution, International Day for Biological Diversity

22 May 2020

As part of the #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution campaign we're launching this special edition of our magazine Forest Cover, written in collaboration with our member groups. Forest Cover highlights how hype around NBS…

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Women’s Major Group on COVID-19 and the environment: support real solutions that respect human rights

15 May 2020

The Women’s Major Group has published this powerful statement in response to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) President’s letter to UNEA’s Ministerial Declaration. The statement links the current coronovirus crisis…

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If women stop, the world stops: we’re supporting the Women’s Global Strike on International Women’s Day

8 Mar 2020

Today is International Women’s Day and GFC is proud to be supporting the Women’s Global Strike. Many of our staff and member groups are joining the global strike to fight…

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Women’s rights and traditional knowledge are crucial for conserving biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan

3 Mar 2020

[Русская версия] Last week, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) negotiations in Rome aimed to set out a global biodiversity framework for the coming decades. The sheer scale of the challenges…

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The impacts of tree plantations on women & women-led resistance to monocultures

Women2030 global shadow report: Gender equality on the ground

New gender equality report on Latin America cites gap between UN goals and local realities

Latin America report: gender assessments reveal gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions

Respect for women’s rights at stake: The gap between real life and the UN’s good intentions

Forest loss for large-scale agriculture and extractive industries goes hand in hand with violence against women

Our Nature is Not Your Solution – and FAO’s Plantations are even less of a Solution!

Forest Cover 61: #OurNatureIsNotYourSolution, International Day for Biological Diversity

Women’s Major Group on COVID-19 and the environment: support real solutions that respect human rights

If women stop, the world stops: we’re supporting the Women’s Global Strike on International Women’s Day

Women’s rights and traditional knowledge are crucial for conserving biodiversity in Kyrgyzstan

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