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Virtually in New York at the UN: WECF events during the Commission on the Status of Women

By | 2023-03-10T08:37:09+00:00 March 30th, 2021|Advocacy, Gender equality, News, WECF, WEP|

A year ago, just before the CSW, the corona pandemic changed everything. But now we have found new ways of movement building. So, we can connect virtually from all over the world to CSW65. In addition to the negotiations, in which government delegations have discussions on what it takes to improve gender equality, a lot [...]

Ending Violence Against Women Requires Systemic Change

By | 2023-03-10T08:37:09+00:00 November 25th, 2020|Advocacy, Gender Assessments, Gender equality, GFC, News, Reports & studies, Shadow reports, WECF|

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 comes toward the end of a particularly difficult one for women across the world, who with COVID-19 have faced domestic violence during lockdowns and financial [...]

Achieving Gender Equality in Africa: Women2030 Africa Regional Report

By | 2023-03-10T08:37:10+00:00 July 15th, 2020|Advocacy, Biodiversity, Climate, Energy, Gender Assessments, Gender equality, News, Reports & studies, Shadow reports, Shadow reports 2020, WEP|

This publication compiles the results of gender assessments and Sustainable Development Goals’ policy monitoring by the Women2030 partners in Africa in the following countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Tchad, Liberia and Tunisia. The gender assessments and policy monitoring carried out by Women2030 partners assessed the situation of women in the target countries regarding [...]

Forest Cover 59: Bioenergy in West Africa – impacts on women and forests

By | 2023-03-13T08:35:18+00:00 October 31st, 2019|Biodiversity, Climate, Energy, GFC, News|

In this issue of the Global forest Coalition's magazine Forest Cover we explore the full spectrum of bioenergy developments and use in West Africa and how they are impacting women and forests. The articles cover bioenergy in its very large-scale, requiring huge areas of land to provide the raw materials, to the ubiquitous and time-old [...]

Forest Cover 57 – 1.5°C from a community perspective

By | 2023-03-13T08:36:03+00:00 December 3rd, 2018|Biodiversity, Climate, GFC, News, Outreach|

Welcome to the 57th issue of Forest Cover, the Global Forest Coalition’s magazine. It provides a space for environmental justice activists from across the world to present their views on international forest-related policies. As governments congregate once more for a climate COP, this time in Katowice, Poland, Forest Cover 57 looks critically at the Intergovernmental [...]