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The role and relevance of gender in effectively realizing the objectives of the ACP MEAs 3 project is an important consideration while implementing the project activities by various partners in the project. Realizing the need for promoting a common…

Women are playing a lead role in tackling some of the planet’s biggest environmental threats, from climate change to species loss, to pollution. International Women’s Day, which falls on 8 March, provides an…

It is nightfall in the village of Char Baghutia in Manikganj district in central Bangladesh. Twenty-seven-year-old Miriam is hunched over a rickety old sewing machine, under a single incandescent lamp, with one…

Twenty-five years after the World Conference in Beijing placed gender equality firmly on the global agenda, women continue to struggle to realize these rights, with a new report by UN Women finding that the climate…

International Women’s Day is a time to reflect, take stock of achievements and challenges and to find ways to work to move the needle forward in achieving gender equality. Supporting women who are stepping up today…

Chemicals and waste are integral to our everyday life, but they also have major impacts on the environment and human health. As the world’s population approaches 8 billion, the sound management of chemicals and…

International Women's Day, March 8, 2019. Around 3.8 billion people suffer from indoor air pollution every year due to harmful cooking stoves. Women and children are most effected as they spend the greatest time…

Every morning at ten o'clock, Sok Sopheap sets off to pick up her grandchildren from the local school in time for lunch. In Tropang Thom village, Sopheap is a familiar face. But she’s also unusual. People of her…

On any given morning in the locality of Al-Rahad in Sudan, women like Hawa Abdullah, dressed in bright colours, can be seen turning up the earth of their land or scattering seeds on their tractors. While the scene…

As the Samburu fight for control over natural resources, Samburu women are demanding to be heard The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many…