Gender Justice and Forests

The Women2030 program – a celebration of impact!

8 Apr, 2021

On the 4th and 5th of March 2021, Women2030 coalition and country partners gathered virtually to celebrate the end of the Women2030 program, which was funded over the last five years by the European Commission’s Directorate-General of International Partnerships (DG-INTPA). The Women2030 program was part of efforts in the drive towards adopting a gender transformative Agenda2030 and climate policies. The meeting was a learning webinar organized for the purpose of sharing the lived experiences of the people implementing and benefiting …

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Women’s leadership in forest conservation and governance is central for an equal future: Voices from GFC

8 Mar, 2021

For an inclusive and just future in a COVID-19 world and beyond, we recognise that gender equality and addressing structural barriers of patriarchy, extractivism, racism and capitalism go hand in…

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Ending Violence Against Women Requires Systemic Change

25 Nov, 2020

by Jeanette Sequeira (Global Forest Coalition) and Audrey Ledanois (Women Engage for a Common Future) This year, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25th…

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On International Day of Rural Women celebrate women-led struggle for gender-justice

14 Oct, 2020

October 15th marks International Day of Rural Women. Today, along with eight of our member groups, we are celebrating the role and invaluable contributions of women and girls all around…

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No more Rhetoric: It’s time for money to be redirected to a gender-responsive, rights-based ecosystems approach to halt biodiversity loss

8 Oct, 2020

Orignially published in ECOonline September 2020. By Souparna Lahiri, Global Forest Coalition The United Nations Biodiversity Summit is taking place at a time when the Covid 19 Pandemic has resulted…

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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…

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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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Convention on Biological Diversity: The Great Contradictions in the Zero Draft

25 Feb, 2020

by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition Originally published in ECO Volume 61, Issue 1 The zero draft of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework looks like a wonderful document at first…

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