Gender

Paris Delivers Historic Climate Treaty, but Leaves Gender Untouched

By Stella Paul
After 2 weeks of intense negotiations, on Saturday evening, the 21st UN climate conference (COP21) in Paris finally delivered a historic agreement that, for the first time, promises to keep the global warming under 2 degrees Celsius. The treaty, consisting 31 pages and signed by by 196 countries, include the big five steps of climate action:

Climate Change and Women Across Three Continents

By Dizzanne Billy, Domoina Ratovozanany, and Sohara Mehroze Shachi
The link between women in climate change is a cross-cutting issue that deserves greater recognition at climate negotiations. It is pervasive, touching everything; from health and agriculture to sanitation and education.

Sargassum and Climate Change in the Caribbean

By Guillermo Fuentes
When the habitants of Puerto Morelos saw their white beaches turn brown, they felt they needed to take urgent action for their community. Given the limited effectiveness of the response, they organized themselves to clean public beaches, but the situation got worse.

Water and Sanitation: Bridging the Gender Gap on India’s Seas

By Malini Shankar
Jeeja Behera, 34, the wife of a fisherman in the village of Sannapatna in India’s cyclone prone Puri district, dreads the onset of the cyclone season between October and January every year due to the lack of water, sanitation and hygiene in cyclone shelters.

Farmers to COP 21: Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You!

By A. D. McKenzie
When Dr. Evelyn Nguleka says that the world’s people shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds them, she explains that she’s not only referring to protecting farmers, but also to safeguarding the environment.

Peruvian Women Install Solar Panels and Light Up their Communities

By Pilar Celi
Five women from Candarave Province, located in Tacna (Peru), travelled to India to be trained and to learn how to install solar panels. The training has enabled 272 families to have electricity and improve their quality of life.

Women Leaders agree COP21 Must Have “Gender-Responsive” Deal.

By Stella Paul
53-year old Aleta Baun of Indonesia’s West Timor province is a proud climate warrior. From 1995 to 2005 she successfully led a citizens’ movement to shut down 4 large marble mining companies that polluted and damaged the ecosystem of a mountain her community considered sacred. After their closure in 2006, she became a conservationist and restored 15 hectares of degraded mountain land, reviving dozens of dried springs and resettling 6,000 people who were displaced by the mining.

Aspects of Dualism in the Gulf

By N Chandra Mohan
The crash in oil prices is not the only challenge confronting the Gulf States in West Asia. Economic disorder and lack of opportunity are contributing to instability in the region, stated Bahrain’s minister for industry, commerce and tourism, Zayed Al Zayani, while kicking off the recent IISS Bahrain Bay Forum. He emphasized the need for “unprecedented” economic reform across the Gulf in the wake of the lower oil revenues. These policies include the generation of millions of jobs for the youth in these economies that continue to depend heavily on expatriate labour from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Philippines.

Water Shortages Have a Heavy Impact on Women in Cuba

By Patricia Grogg
Denia Arrascaeta suffers water shortages on a near daily basis in the neighbourhood in the Cuban capital where she lives. “Sometimes I don’t even have water to drink,” she told IPS.

Women Farmers Strive to Combat Climate Change in the Caribbean

By Desmond Brown
In the Caribbean, some women find themselves on the frontline with the battle to mitigate climate change. Meet Dr. Krystal Cox. She is one of three girls who all studied medicine and got medical degrees.

Mother-to-Child AIDS Transmission Dealt a Blow in Zimbabwe

By Jeffrey Moyo
With the battle to combat HIV/AIDS intensifying in Zimbabwe, the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission initiative (PMTCT) has increasingly become a success weapon in the war on transmission of the once dreaded disease to the country’s unborn babies, despite some mothers testing positive for the disease.

In Botswana: Leaving the Corporate Office to Work the Land – and Finding Opportunity

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
Beauty Manake moves around these days with a “million dollar” smile on her face. The 31-year old woman from Botswana now runs a thriving vegetable and livestock farm, as well as an agribusiness consultancy group.

“Paris Is Not the End of a Climate Change Process but a Beginning”

By Marianela Jarroud
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet says the climate summit in Paris “is not the end of a process but a beginning,” and that it will produce “an agreement that, although insufficient with respect to the original goal, shows that people believe it is better to move ahead than to stand still.”

Opinion: Ending Child Marriage – What Difference Can a Summit Make?

By Samuel Musyoki
The long-awaited African Girls’ Summit on Ending Child Marriage is here.

Uganda, Tanzania Need Gender Sensitive Climate Change Policies

By Wambi Michael
Climate Change needs to be at the top of the country’s agenda, according to a project examining Uganda’s policies. It says the country hasn’t paid enough attention to climate change in national development and agriculture plans and this needs to be turned around before it’s too late.

Women Suffer Psychological Problems After Living Under Taliban

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
“My two sons were killed by Taliban militants mercilessly three years ago. My husband died a natural death two year back. Now, I am begging to raise my two grandsons,” Gul Pari, 50, told IPS.

Gay Rights Activists Hope for The Pope’s Blessings in Uganda

By Amy Fallon
This week Pope Francis is making his first trip to Africa in his as leader of the Catholic church. While mass excitement is building in the three host countries, Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic (CAR),among people of all religions not everyone is in the mood to celebrate.

Open Defecation to End by 2025, Vows UN Chief, Marking World Toilet Day

By Thalif Deen
The state of the world’s toilets reveals the good, the bad and the ugly – but not necessarily in that order.

“Jasmine Revolution” Challenges Male Domination of Tea Trade Unions

By K.S. Harikrishnan
Until September this year, Lissie Sunny was not a name known to the Indian public. All of this changed when this lean and dark woman, working for over a quarter century plucking tea leaves in the misty mountain slopes of southern India finally had enough and took on one of the most powerful tea companies in the world.

Gay Cruising Spots a Challenge for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Cuba

By Ivet González
When night falls, young men can be seen sitting on a dismantled bus stop on a remote hill far from the centre of the Cuban capital. Later they climb uphill to have sex with other men in the thick forest.

Maternal Deaths Decline by 44 Percent, Says New Study

By Thalif Deen
When world leaders adopted a set of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at a summit meeting in September 2000, one of the heavily-publicised goals was the commitment to reduce extreme poverty and hunger by the end of 2015.
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