The human cost of terrorism has been felt in every corner of the globe with dire consequences. However, actions by states to counter-terrorism and to prevent violent extremism leading to terrorism at times themselves violate fundamental human rights, which may breed distrust of society towards the state and have been recognized as a condition conducive to the spread of terrorism.
Women activists and civil society leaders report being caught between the actions of violent extremist and terrorist groups, which often target women’s rights and physical integrity, and state responses to terrorism, which carry risks of instrumentalizing women’s organizations, potentially compromising their reputation and safety and negatively impacting women’s human rights. New laws adopted in response to COVID-19 are further restricting the spaces and activities of civil society which in turn affects women’s activism.
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Join a panel of experts from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pacific, Europe, and West Africa for a discussion on the intersections between gender-based violence (GBV) and climate security, and the ways through which the security sector can contribute to minimizing GBV related to climate change.
Itzá Castañeda, Gender and Sustainable Development Special Adviser, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Kavita Naidu, former Climate Justice Programme Officer, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), and member of the Women and Gender Constituency of the UNFCCC
Szilvia Csevár, Lecturer and Researcher in Public International Law, The Hague University of Applied Sciences
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Justice Info is an independent website in French and English covering justice initiatives in countries dealing with serious violence. It is a media outlet of Fondation Hirondelle, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, financed by its readers and by public and private donors.
Our work covers Transitional Justice, a term still not widely understood by the public.
It means Justice Info covers, for example: trials for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide; truth commissions; reparations programmes; remembrance; reconciliation initiatives; and universal jurisdiction.
Justice Info’s vision is both grounded in the field, passionate and expert. It plunges into the inventiveness of human societies confronted with mass violence. It looks towards new horizons such as climate and environmental justice, or corporate responsibility. Justice Info is an open, accessible and innovative media. It aims to be a platform for human communities in