An African gender and extractives alliance that works to research and publicise the impacts of extractives on peasant and working-class women; support women’s organising, movement-building and solidarity; advocate and campaign for structural changes, advance an African post-extractivist eco-just women-centred alternative to this dominant destructive model of development.
Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) is an international network of over 150 women’s and civil society organisations implementing projects in 50 countries and advocating globally to shape a just and sustainable world; our Common Future.
The Global Gender Office (GGO) contributes to IUCN’s mission by providing innovative approaches, technical support, policy development and capacity building to a wide range of partners – including IUCN members, offices, commissions, and networks – ensuring gender equality is central to sustainable global environmental solutions.
This self-paced free course will help you better understand the linkages between gender and the environment. It will provide you with the knowledge and tools to mainstream gender, and to be an effective change-maker for sustainable development. It will also give you facts and figures, and a better understanding of the global international frameworks related to gender and environment.
A global women’s advocacy organization for a just world that promotes and protects human rights, gender equality, and the integrity of the environment.
A web-based research and storytelling database and initiative designed to shift the narrative, and to challenge dominant systems of exploitation and oppression of women and the Earth – as we collect and share thousands of stories by and about women and femmes leading struggles and solutions for climate justice under a variety of cross-sectional themes.
A report that addresses the disproportionate gender and race-specific health and safety impacts as well as human and Indigenous rights issues of fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure in the United States and selected parts of Canada— interlocking issues that have been sorely neglected in the discourse regarding fossil fuel extraction. The report spotlights the role that a specific set of financial institutions, including banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, play in preserving and perpetuating negative gender and racial impacts through focusing on eight case studies in North America.
“[Intersectional Environmentalist] hope(s) to empower + instill joy in people of color and historically excluded communities by amplifying the incredible legacies of diverse people in the environmental space throughout history and in the present.”
