Category: Gender
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Celebrating Women and the Environment in Benin
Some 100 women celebrated International Women’s Day in forest — emphasizing the importance of gender equality to environmental sustainability. The event was organized by the the national women’s association and The Hunger Project, and it received coverage (below) in the national media.
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Feminism and Food Systems
The March global Zoom gathering of the Movement for Community-led Development featured special presentations by: John Coonrod also announced the availability of a paper on Community-led Food Systems to submit to the Summit — the pdf is below.
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International Women’s Day 2021: Getting Back on Track
Featured Photo Credit: UN Women/Yijiu Yuan by Charlie Estes, Intern for The Hunger Project March 8, 2021 — International Women’s Day is a time to take stock of where we are in our global journey toward gender equality and look forward to what’s to come. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Report,…
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Gender Justice and USAID
Missing from the draft USAID Gender policy, however, is the most important recognition in the quest for gender equality — that the subjugation, marginalization and disempowerment of women is systemic