Gender equality and equity are matters of fundamental human rights and social justice, as well as a pre-condition for sustainable development and the achievement of IUCN’s mission.
DOCUMENTS
This section includes a set of documents that formulate the linkages between the use and conservation of natural resources and gender equality.
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VIDEOS
GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT
An image worth more than a thousands words… In this section you can find links to videos in relation to gender and environment.
NEWS
Gulf Coast Women Reflect on 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Challenges of slow recovery and women’s marginalization after the recent oil spill
Who is listening to the women of the Gulf Coast?
The silence about their concerns is deafening in this week of fifth-anniversary commemorative events
about Hurricane Katrina. The Katrina story—and now the BP disaster—has been a story focused
exclusively on race, class and age, as if women and men, boys and girls are not also embodied in a
gendered social world. Who is listening to women in the fifth year and fifth month of these two great
American tragedies?
Mexico’s Ministers tackle dual challenges of gender inequality and climate change
National and state-level ministers of the environment gathered in Mexico on Friday as the country pushes forward its plans to improve equality between men and women, enhancing its capacity to respond to the threats of climate change.
Greenpeace, Oxfam gather to address climate change through gender equality in Mexico
Senior policy makers and representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered in Mexico last Thursday to learn more about how improved equality between men and women can better prepare Mexico to deal with climate change.
