Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights

08/10/2026

Looking for job opportunities in policy, research, and advocacy, including jobs related to gender, security, and the environment? Explore some opportunities below:

1. Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Intern: UN Women: Nairobi, Kenya. Deadline: August 13. https://bit.ly/3TYujvB

2. Gender and Local Community Specialist: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Remote. Deadline: August 14. https://bit.ly/4wbln3q

3. Team Lead and Researcher – Gender, Environment and Justice: Stockholm Environment Institute: Bangkok, Thailand. Deadline: August 16. https://bit.ly/3Uk2y0D

4. Program Assistant, Women Leaders India: Vital Voices Global Partnership: Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: Ongoing. https://bit.ly/4z85Rs0

5. Legal Fellow (South Asia): Legal Action Worldwide: Remote. Deadline: Ongoing – Start Date September 2026. https://bit.ly/4xpOHEk

6. Call for Consultant for Paper on Political Rights of Migrant Women in the EU from a Legal Perspective: Women in Development Europe (WIDE+): Remote (must be based in Europe). Deadline: August 18. https://bit.ly/4q4SoNh

7. Gender and Gender-Based Violence Programme Specialist: United Nations Population Fund: Palestine. Deadline: August 18. https://bit.ly/4x4rM1T

8. Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist: Education Development Center. Remote. [CK5] Deadline: Ongoing. https://bit.ly/4z4WRnk

9. Communications and Program Coordinator: Center for Ecoliteracy. [CK6] Berkeley, California. Deadline: Ongoing. https://bit.ly/4hV2gak

10. Senior Policy & Advocacy Advisor: Women's Legal Service Victoria: Melbourne, Australia. Deadline: Ongoing. https://bit.ly/4fWmmye

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Women’s Legal Service Victoria | Melbourne CBD | Immediate start | Hybrid working model| Full time or Part time - negotiable (minimum 0.8 FTE) | OngoingBe a part of a feminist community legal service supporting Victorian women and non-binary people.

08/06/2026

Fourteen months ago, Amrit Tamber started her internship at the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights. Now, she is preparing to graduate under the Erasmus Mundus International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development Master’s program with three Master’s degrees (!): an LL.M. in International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development from the University of Glasgow; a Master’s in International Security from Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals; and an MA in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Tartu. And she defended two Master’s theses: (1) The Illusion of Inclusion: Whose Peace, Whose Security and Whose Voice?, which examined the inclusivity and transformative potential of the WPS agenda across Colombia, Nigeria, and India; and (2) One Child, Three Regimes: The Dual Status of Child Soldiers in International Law, which explored the structural incoherence surrounding the criminal responsibility of child soldiers across international legal regimes where it advanced human dignity as the framework for reconciliation. It should come as no surprise that her next step is a PhD, and this September, she’s enrolled as a PhD student in Law at Western University. Congratulations, Amrit, on this impressive series of academic accomplishments!

08/04/2026

Since graduating from Wellesley College in May, former intern Ilinca Drondoe has been working for MADRE as an Advocacy & Policy Intern, conducting research and implementing feminist campaigns at the intersection of global human rights policy and domestic movement-building. Looking ahead, she is excited to be starting her MA in Critical Human Geography at York University in Toronto this fall and continuing the research journey she began at the Consortium! Please join us in congratulating Ilinca for her latest exciting accomplishments!

08/01/2026

Looking for job opportunities in policy, research, and advocacy, including jobs related to gender, security, and the environment? Explore some opportunities below:

1. Administrative Officer: DCAF Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance: Geneva, Switzerland https://bit.ly/4aX4Po6
2. Associate Researchers in Sociology (Gender, Intersectionality and Quantitative Methods): University of Gothenburg: Gothenburg, Sweden https://bit.ly/4fqT1Mn
3. Gender, Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) Officer: Pacific Community (SPC): Suva, Fiji https://bit.ly/4ysIZmm
4. Director, National Campaigns: Human Rights Campaign: Washington, DC: https://bit.ly/457NJ3p
5. Project Coordinator: Saferworld: London, UK https://bit.ly/4w3X5Jn
6. Chief of Staff: Environmental Defense Fund: Washington, DC or New York City, NY https://bit.ly/4ysOwJE
7. Associate Director, MIT Climate Policy Center, Cambridge, MA https://bit.ly/4vUIDCV

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MIT - Associate Director, MIT Climate Policy Center - Cambridge MA 02139

07/31/2026

Looking to expand your knowledge on gender, security, and human rights? Here’s what our interns Samantha Moura Novais de Quadros and Sadaf Shabbir are reading this week!

Samantha Moura Novais de Quadros recommends “Women and Extractivism,” Chapter 6 of Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (2025): “Authors Wendy Godek and Gabriela Kütting examine extractivism as a deeply gendered and colonial process embedded within global environmental governance. They argue that extractivist development is not only driven by economic imperatives, but is also structured through colonial logics that systematically marginalize Indigenous women and other local actors from environmental decision-making, while concentrating power in state–corporate alliances and private capital. They show how extractivism generates harms that extend beyond environmental degradation, operating as a form of dispossession in which communities are stripped not only of land and resources, but also of cultural continuity, relational ecologies, and the conditions necessary for self-determination.” https://bit.ly/WomenAndExcrativism2025

Sadaf Shabbir recommends Bananas, Beaches and Bases by Cynthia Enloe (2014) for Enloe’s insightful feminist analysis of the global politics of masculinities and femininities and her demonstration of the many ways women's work, care, and everyday experiences play a crucial role in international politics. Exploring Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, diplomatic spouses, and the UN gender politics of guns, Enloe challenges mainstream perspectives on diplomacy, militarism, tourism, and the global economy by showing that gender isn’t just an “add-on” to international politics – it’s central to how our global system functions. https://bit.ly/Enloe2014

07/29/2026

Our final Summer 2026 welcomes Magali Frechen!

Magali graduated from Leiden University of 2026 with a Master’s degree in Crisis and Security Management with a focus on War and Peace Studies . Her research interests center on insider-partial mediation, feminist and decolonial peacebuilding approaches, and crisis management. Magali is also a member of our Research Hub Management, Social Media, and Reference Management Software teams.

07/13/2026

This past April, the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights welcomed Janene Yazzie as part of our .

In her talk, “Authoritarianism and Indigenous Resistance: Climate Change, Militarism, and the Rise of Artificial Intelligence,” Yazzie explored the ways the rapid expansion of AI has ignited a geopolitical competition to access and control critical minerals, expand fossil fuel development, and increase investments in nuclear energy. She argued that Indigenous movements’ histories of resistance to colonial power structures can be instructive for the development of new strategies and solutions to combat the rise of technofascism.

You can access the recording and transcription of Yazzie’s lecture here: https://bit.ly/YazzieEvent

07/10/2026

Looking for job opportunities in policy, research, and advocacy, including jobs related to gender, security, and the environment? Explore some opportunities below:

1. Feminist Knowledge Leadership Assistant: Urgent Action Fund: Remote (Global): https://bit.ly/4w0Kp67

2. Research Assistant, Armament and Disarmament: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden: https://bit.ly/3SRQ5AI

3. Senior Executive Officer: Amnesty International: London, UK https://bit.ly/4pcXGGi

4. Senior Adviser (Middle East): DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance: Middle East or Switzerland https://bit.ly/4eXw7Mk

5. Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, in Women and Gender Studies: UMass Boston: Boston, MA https://bit.ly/4pcirSn

6. Legal Director: Global Justice Center: New York City, NY https://bit.ly/3SMRyZe

7. Climate Policy Correspondent: New York Times: Washington, DC https://bit.ly/4vUj6KC

8. National Gender Specialist: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Serbia https://bit.ly/4wxeKJp

9. Head of Oxfam: Cymru: Wales https://bit.ly/4p9E2L4

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07/09/2026

Looking to expand your knowledge on gender, security, and human rights? Here’s what our interns Marianna Defendini-Torres and Shengdi Ge are reading this week!

Marianna Defendini-Torres recommends “Racialized Disaster Patriarchy: An Intersectional Model for Understanding Disaster Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina,” by Rachel E. Luft, which (2016) offers an intersectional feminist analysis of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Building on Naomi Klein’s concept of disaster capitalism (2005), Luft introduces “racialized disaster patriarchy” to examine how structural racism, sexism, and economic inequality converge before, during, and after disaster. The article highlights how disasters are not only shaped by unequal systems, but also reproduce them through the recovery efforts, institutional responses, and even social justice movements themselves. https://bit.ly/Luft2016

Shengdi Ge recommends "No End to Injustice: Gender Biases in Resettlement Planning" by Mathur, which explores how resettlement plans in India, designed as a reparation for the people who experienced dam-induced impacts, are highly gender-biased. The author points out that gender biases were present at every stage of resettlement planning -- from early consultation to distribution. Women who were impacted by the construction of dam projects often ended up significantly worse than men as they’re forced to bear a greater burden through displacement than their male counterparts. https://bit.ly/Mathur2013

07/07/2026

The Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights welcomed Nico Edwards this past March as part of our .

Her talk, “The Military ‘Green Transition’ and Struggles for Socioecological Justice,” examined the rise of a military-green-industrial complex and its normalization of the production, profiteering and practice of armed violence in the name of climate action and environmental sustainability. Edwards highlighted the masculinized, militarized frame of “fighting and winning wars against climate change,” and analyzed its implications for peacebuilding, justice, and efforts to build truly sustainable futures.

You can access the recording and transcription of Edwards’ lecture here: https://lnkd.in/gJqbRy46