Electronics and extractivism during the COVID-19 pandemic | Ella Wilkinson
http://bright-green.org/2020/06/16/electronics-and-extractivism-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
about 6 years ago
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http://bright-green.org/2020/06/16/electronics-and-extractivism-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
about 6 years ago
https://www.monash.edu/arts/gender-peace-security/news-and-events/articles/new-research-mapping-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-wps-practitioners-in-the-indo-pacific-region
We mapped the early impacts of the pandemic on those working with vulnerable communities via a regional survey, so that policymakers and donors could be better informed as they prepare strategies to contain Covid-19 and address its human security effects in the Indo-Pacific region.
about 6 years ago
https://www.energia.org/cm2/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/covid-position-paper_FINAL.pdf
Energy access remains as important as ever for households and businesses, as pointed out by the World Bank and the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, with health infrastructure and womenâs role in care stressed. Further, traditional cooking smoke may pose an additional risk for women if infected.
about 6 years ago
https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID-19-and-child-early-and-forced-marriage_FINAL.pdf
This brief provides insights, recommendations, and resources for responding to the needs of adolescent girls, including those at risk of child marriage, during and after the crisis.
over 6 years ago
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2020/05/06/coronavirus-south-sudan-women-abuse-gender-violence
Women in camps worry they will find little aid if they become victims of physical or sexual violence.
over 6 years ago
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/24/covid-crisis-women-205856
If we donât act now, women and girls will be suffering from the pandemicâs fallout for decades to come.
over 6 years ago
https://www2.unwomen.org/-/media/field%20office%20eseasia/docs/publications/2020/04/ap_first_100%20days_covid-19.pdf
This document provides a rapid and preliminary review of the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic 100 days after the first cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). It aims to: ⢠present a snapshot of the gender dimensions of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic in the Asia-Pacific region; ⢠capture promising practices for integrating gender in preparedness and response planning; and ⢠propose lessons learned and strategic entry points to mitigate the socio-economic impacts for women and girls
over 6 years ago
https://www.politicalsettlements.org/2020/04/21/covid-19-and-gender-based-violence-in-conflict/
over 6 years ago
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/10/kenya-labor-coronavirus-pandemic-informal-workers-economic-crisis/
over 6 years ago
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1andWztlz4o2qBtC8gGuMUEsL6pB1LSCP/view
The United Nations Innovation Network has released a Special Update which highlights how 30 UN entities are leveraging innovative approaches to respond to COVID-19.
over 6 years ago
https://www.wiego.org/blog/informal-workers-frontlines-covid-19-providing-critical-services-without-adequate-protections
In the global South, many of these workers â such as street and market vendors, newspaper sellers, waste pickers and domestic workers â work in the informal economy. Now, without legal and social protections, they are working to sustain their families and ensure their communities have the food and basic services they need to survive â all at great personal risk.
over 6 years ago
https://icanpeacework.org/2020/04/15/icans-statement-on-our-gender-and-conflict-sensitive-response-to-covid-19/
The expertise that women peacebuilders have in allaying fears, building community, fostering social cohesion and gender sensitivity, dealing with the racism and hatred that is already spiking, and highlighting the risk of police brutality is and will continue to be profoundly important.
over 6 years ago
https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/what-are-african-journalists-scholars-and-activists-saying-about-covid-19/
The debates that I see are still being framed largely in Northern terms of self-isolation, PPE and all the rest.
over 6 years ago
https://amp-ft-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.
over 6 years ago
https://icanpeacework.org/2020/04/08/how-are-women-peacebuilders-responding-to-covid-19/
Summary of how women peacebuilders around the globe are responding to COVID-19.
over 6 years ago
https://medium.com/@AWDF/surviving-covid19-why-we-need-to-listen-to-african-womens-organisations-525825503661
Generalised catastrophe may well be the ânew normalâ for the privileged, but it has been the backdrop of African womenâs organising for generations.
over 6 years ago
https://caribbean.unwomen.org/en/materials/publications/2020/3/covid-19-and-implications-for-inclusive-economic-empowerment-in-caricom
Programmes and policies that will support inclusive socio-economic stability while efforts are made to contain the spread of the virus.
over 6 years ago
https://www.womenpeacesecurity.org/womens-rights-security-councils-response-to-covid-19/
Less than 1% of evidence on outbreaks such as Ebola or the Zika virus analyzed any of their gender dimensions; yet, available analysis demonstrates that women are both more likely to be infected due to their role as primary caregivers or healthcare workers, and less likely to be able to meet their own needs.
over 6 years ago
http://www.ipsnews.net/2020/04/women-africa-vulnerable-covid-19-pandemic/
Most of the South Sudanese refugees we work together with cannot afford soap. How to even begin talking about prevention when people are unable to wash their hands properly?
over 6 years ago
https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/religion-and-covid-19-four-lessons-from-the-ebola-experience/
Research into the role of religion in the Ebola response contains valuable lessons to those fighting the Coronavirus.
over 6 years ago
http://www.ipsnews.net/2020/04/covid-19-pandemic-affecting-womens-sexual-reproductive-health
Access to sexual and reproductive health care services, from routine services and testing for STIs to antenatal care, contraception, and abortion, has suffered significantly.
over 6 years ago
https://www.feministhumanitariannetwork.org/post/women-led-responses-to-covid-19-report-from-monrovia-liberia
The women in these communities are leading the response. The post-Ebola structures provide support in terms of experiences and advice. The community leadership provides support in terms of the authority.
over 6 years ago
https://qz.com/india/1826683/indias-approach-to-fighting-coronavirus-lacks-a-gender-lens
There is increasing recognition of the ways in which the health-related warlike emergency measures are disproportionately affecting specific sections of our society adversely.
over 6 years ago