Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Issue #80 – November 20, 2025

Announcements

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Environmental Peacebuilding Awards (Deadline: 30 November 2025)

November 11, 2025

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to present awards to leaders, practitioners, and researchers from our community.

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Events

Advocate for Gender and Environmental Peacebuilding at These Events in 2025!

March 15, 2025 - 2025-12-31

Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Check out these exciting 2025 events in our infographic!

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Library

In the past month, several new publications were added to our online library of materials on gender, natural resources, climate, and peace. Here is a sampling of the new additions:

Tackling the Complex Links between Climate Change, Conflict, and Health

November 11, 2025 | Barbora Šedová and Andrew Haines

Climate and conflict seriously threaten human health.

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25 Years of Women, Peace and Security – What Has Been Achieved?

November 6, 2025 | Berlin Climate and Security Conference

To mark the anniversary of the landmark Women, Peace and Security agenda (UNSC resolution 1325), this high-level spotlight session explored normative and policy advances made over the last 25 years, as well as…

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Global Women, Peace and Security Initiative: Phase I Implementation Report - Chad, Mongolia and Ukraine

October 21, 2025 | UNDP

Phase I Implementation Report (2024-2025) Chad, Mongolia and Ukraine

In 2024–2025, in partnership with the Government of France, UNDP established and implemented Phase I of the Global Women, Peace and Security Initiative in Chad,…

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International News

Liberia: Nimba Women Agriculture Cooperative Launches Financial Loan Program to Empower Rural Women

November 4, 2025 | D. Franklin Doloquee

GANTA, Nimba County – Over twenty rural women from Ganta and its surrounding communities in Nimba County recently benefited from a new loan program launched by the Nimba Women Agriculture Cooperative.

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Zambia: Zambian Women Take the Lead in Adapting Food Systems to Climate Change

November 3, 2025 | Giulia Caroli, Gracsious Maviza, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Rosemary Fumpa-Makano

Women play vital roles as actors and innovators in food systems worldwide. In many societies, they are the primary food producers, accounting for between 60% and 80% of the national food stock.

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Sri Lanka: Building Resilience, One Snack at a Time: The Story of Jayasumani Sivajothi

October 23, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific

In Karaithivu, a coastal community in Sri Lanka’s Ampara District, the sea once brought devastation to the life of Jayasumani Sivajothi.

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Somalia: Land Grabbing Crisis Deepens in Mogadishu as Women and Children Bear the Brunt

October 21, 2025 | Dahir Alasow

A new wave of forced evictions and illegal land grabbing is devastating communities across Mogadishu, displacing thousands of residents — many of them women and children — and exposing deep corruption within local…

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Global: Indigenous Women and the Path to a Just Energy Transition: Voices from the Land

October 20, 2025 | Galina Angarova and Daniela De León

Key Ideas: 

The implementation of the energy transition is unfolding at the expense of biodiversity and communities — particularly Indigenous women, says Galina Angarova and Daniela De León, members of the SIRGE Coalition.

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Colombia: Putumayo’s Women Guardians Defend Land and Culture Amid Colombia’s Deforestation

October 15, 2025 | Natalia Arbelaez

In Colombia southwest, Kamëntšá and Inga Indigenous women are at the forefront of the struggle to defend their territory, which provides water to the rest of the Putumayo.

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Compiled by Maria Camilla CadonicciKathleen McLean, Katie Alhusen, Natalia Jimenez, and Maryruth Belsey Priebe

Edited by Madeleine Loll

Coordinated by Mara Pusic 

Designed by Graham Campbell

Managed and Published by Silja Halle and Carl Bruch

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