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  • Guatemala’s Western Highlands: Addressing Gendered Vulnerability to Climate Change

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 17, 2023  //  By Jessie Pinchoff & Angel del Valle

    Indigenous women of GuatemalaÕs Polochic valley are feeding their families, growing their businesses and saving more money than ever before, with the help of a joint UN programme thatÕs empowering rural women.  Pictured: Women from Aldea Campur, in Alta Verapaz, make, market and package their own shampoo, earning extra income for themselves and for their families.  The Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women by FAO, WFP, IFAD and UN Women is working to advance advance gender equality and economic empowerment of women in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nepal, Niger and Rwanda. In Guatemala, the programme started in 2015, with funding from Norway and Sweden, supporting rural women to develop a range of skills, from sustainable agricultural practices to marketing organic shampoo and learning solar engineering. With better knowledge of their own rights and access to skills, credit and income, women participants can make more decisions within their homes and participate in municipal spaces. Read More: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/7/feature-guatemala-saving-for-a-rainy-day Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

    The Population Institute’s recent report, Invisible Threads: Addressing the root causes of migration from Guatemala by investing in women and girls, has brought attention to the numerous factors that drive migration in Guatemala. One of the key factors addressed in the report is climate change, which is linked closely to issues concerning land in that country. To this day, multiple generations of indigenous women endure the effects of land displacement and inequities in access to land—as well as related social and economic pressures. In concert with other political, social, and economic problems, this particular challenge has resulted in large outflows of migrants from the region.

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  • Whisper Networks in a Wider World of Oppression

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 10, 2023  //  By Chris Langevin & Julia McCoy
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    Abortion restrictions may create obstacles for legal access, but they do nothing to eliminate the need for life-saving reproductive healthcare. And when there is a lack of licit opportunities to obtain that care, patients find pathways to get it through alternative networks.

    For instance, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision in June 2022 reversed a decades-long precedent protecting the constitutional right to an abortion, social media and online forums were filled with reactions and resources alike. Among these interventions were viral posts circulated offering to host anyone going on a “camping” trip in a state with legally protected reproductive rights. These “camping trip” posts alluded to a willingness to aid and abet individuals traveling for abortions in states with legally-protected access—and they captured the complications and conflicts embedded in these responses to the ruling.

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  • Global Population Growth is an Opportunity to Invest in People

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    Dot-Mom  //  December 7, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    Just in the last minute, 169 more people were born on planet Earth, and everyday more than a quarter of a million are added to that total. John Milewski, Moderator of Wilson Center NOW, laid out these astonishing facts at the beginning of a Wilson Center NOW conversation on the implications of global population growth with Wilson Center Fellow Jennifer Sciubba on November 14— the eve of the historic day when the number of people on the planet officially surpassed 8 billion. 

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  • Women with Disabilities in Nigeria’s Mining Industry: Discrimination and Opportunities

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 2, 2022  //  By Nkasi Wodu
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    Women and girls with disabilities worldwide are subject to multiple forms of discrimination—a fact that the 2022 International Day for Persons with Disabilities brings into sharp focus. Yet while all people with disabilities (PWD) face exclusion and widespread stigma, women face the additional burden of exclusion from full participation in economic and cultural activities. Both forms of discrimination result from the collaboration of outdated laws and prevalent societal stigmatization.

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  • Gender-Based Violence Continues to Impede Progress Towards Gender Equality

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    Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  November 30, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    “COVID-19 and the backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights are further diminishing the outlook for gender equality,” states a recent report on the current progress toward gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Yet the new report also zeroes in on another factor that is diminish progress on gender equality: violence. The authors observe that “violence against women remains high, global health, climate and humanitarian crises have further increased risks of violence, especially for the most vulnerable women and girls, and women feel more unsafe than they did before the pandemic.”

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  • Mobile Clinics and Mental Health Care: The NGO Response to Ukraine’s Health Crises

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    New Security Broadcast  //  November 18, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle

    Thumbnail Podcast ImagesThe war in Ukraine is not only displacing millions, straining the economy, and ravaging infrastructure. It’s also creating a mounting health crisis. In this week’s New Security Broadcast, ECSP’s Director Lauren Risi hears from Ambassador Daniel Speckhard and Dr. Mariia Dolynska about the health impacts created by the war in Ukraine and what is still needed to strengthen the health system—as well as what one NGO is doing to deliver healthcare in the embattled nation.

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  • An Inextricable Link: Maternal and Newborn Health and Climate Change

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    Dot-Mom  //  November 16, 2022  //  By Alyssa Kumler
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    “The effects of climate change can begin in the womb,” said Sarah Barnes, the Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative at the Wilson Center at a recent event on the impact of climate change on maternal and newborn health outcomes, hosted by the Wilson Center and UNFPA. It is a connection that “[makes] it imperative that climate change and maternal and newborn health leaders work together to tackle climate change and improve maternal and newborn health outcomes, globally.”

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  • Climate Change, Population, and the Shape of the Future

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 15, 2022  //  By Harriet Alice Taberner & Richard Byrne
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    As the world’s attention has turned in November 2022 to the UN COP 27 climate change conference, another important global milestone is also drawing attention. Today, November 15, 2022, the global population is predicted to reach 8 billion. By 2050, it will be 9.7 billion.

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