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Taking Out the Trash: Tourism Waste, Women’s Environmental Insecurity, and the Foundations of Community Fragility in Coastal Asia-Pacific

Apr 14, 2026 | Maryruth Belsey Priebe
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

It’s August in Boracay, Philippines. The beach bars, restaurants and luxury resorts are packed with revellers and tourists — up to 2.1 million visiting in…

Global: OSCE Tackles Gender and Climate Change Nexus

Apr 11, 2026 | National Today
National Today

A major OSCE conference in Vienna brought together experts to examine the gendered dimensions of climate change and associated security risks across the organization's 57…

Lebanon: Conflict Drives Mental Health Crisis for Displaced Women: “We Hear, See and Feel Pain Constantly”

Apr 9, 2026 | UN Women
UN Women

The escalation in Lebanon, now in its sixth week, has stoked fear across the country and led to a mass displacement crisis, with women and…

Niger: How Community Shelters Protect Children and Help Women Restore Degraded Lands in Niger

Apr 4, 2026 | World Bank Group
Global News Network Liberia

Washington, USA, 03 April 2026 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Community-built shelters in Niger are enabling mothers to participate in land restoration work by providing shaded…

Liberia: New, Community-Led Conservation Delivering Promises

Apr 3, 2026 | Varney Kamara
allAfrica

Years ago, women in Wedjah and Jaedae Districts in Sinoe County processed cassava with their bare hands. Their story has changed for the better. They…

South Sudan: UNMISS Strengthens Capacity of Women-Led Organizations to Combat Climate Shocks

Mar 30, 2026 | UNMISS - United Nations Mission in South Sudan
United Nations

Every year, communities across South Sudan are devastated by severe flooding, due to climate change and inadequate infrastructure to cope with the impact. Those most…

EnPAx Launches New Member Directory

Mar 30, 2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is pleased to announce that it has launched a new online Member Directory. The directory is streamlined and searchable. It…

Emphasize Gender Equality in Water Management Elsewhere

Mar 23, 2026 | The Global New Light of Myanmar
The Global New Light of Myanmar

Only three per cent of the world’s water is freshwater. However, 2.5 per cent of all the world’s water is locked in glaciers, ice-capped polar…

How CIMMYT is Advancing Women-centered Agriculture in Africa

Mar 23, 2026 | Mariana Callejas
CIMMYT

Across Africa, women play a central role in producing food, managing farms, and sustaining household nutrition and incomes. Yet their contributions are still too often…

Uganda: How Women are Still Walking Miles for Water and Paying the Price

Mar 22, 2026 | Ronald Musoke
The Independent

In the vast, sun-scorched plains of Uganda’s northeastern region of Karamoja, the search for water begins before the day has properly broken. In scattered homesteads…

Canada: PBI-Canada Notes Concerns about Risk of Violence to Indigenous Land Defenders, Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People near Major Projects

Mar 22, 2026 | Brent Patterson
PBI-Canada

Peace Brigades International-Canada expresses concern that proposed major extractive projects brings an increased risk of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in communities…

Los cuidadores de pacientes con leishmaniasis visceral (kala-azar), en Kenia, resisten la lucha contra una enfermedad mortal que no distingue entre tribus ni niños

Mar 19, 2026 | Faith Kathambi Mutegi
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Marzo de 2026, Pokot Occidental: Durante tres días, la lluvia ha caído sin cesar. El camino que lleva al Hospital del Subcondado de Sigor, normalmente…

The Kenyan Kalaazar Caregivers Holding the Line Against a Deadly Disease That Chooses No Tribe and No Child

Mar 19, 2026 | Faith Kathambi Mutegi
Environmental Peacebuilding Association

March 2026, West Pokot: For three days, the rain has fallen without pause. The road leading to Sigor Subcounty Hospital, usually a lifeline for families…

Latin America: From the Amazon to Mesoamerica - Women, Science, and Policy are Shaping Resilient Agri-food Systems in Latin America

Mar 19, 2026 | Mariana Callejas
CIMMYT

Across Latin America, the transformation of agri-food systems is being driven by a powerful convergence: science, public policy, and the leadership of women farmers and…

Request for Proposals to Host the Sixth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Mar 17, 2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacemaking Association® (EnPAx®) invites proposals to host the Sixth International Conferences on Environmental Peacebuilding in 2030. 

This RFP provides…

Uganda: Alupo Launches African Pastoralist Women Network to Boost Land Rights

Mar 17, 2026 | Eddy Enuru
Nile Post

Vice President Jessica Alupo has officially launched the African Pastoralist Women Network (ARPWN) and a Learning Centre aimed at advancing gender justice, climate resilience, and…

Women-led Peacebuilding

Mar 16, 2026 | Carlito G. Galvez Jr.
Manila Bulletin

When President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. stood before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City last March 10, he carried with him a clear…

Brazil: Landless Women Mobilize for Agrarian Reform and Against Violence by Brazil

Mar 10, 2026 | Lays Furtado
Via Campesina

This year’s National Day of Landless Women’s Struggles began on March 8 and runs until next Thursday, the 12th, with mobilizations in all regions of…

Why Women Are Central to Resilient Food Systems

Mar 9, 2026 | Mcallejas
CIMMYT

As climate change, economic instability, and biodiversity loss place increasing pressure on global food systems, building resilience has become an urgent priority. But resilience is…

Iran: Aliabouzar - Iranian Women Show What It Means to Be a Freedom Fighter

Mar 9, 2026 | Mitra Aliabouzar
MSN

Iranian women are among the most courageous freedom fighters of our time. No group has challenged the Islamic Republic more consistently and more systematically than…

Towards Safer Engagement with Women Peacebuilders

Mar 8, 2026 | Berghof Foundation
Berghof Foundation

This International Women’s Day, we highlight a vital but often overlooked connection: the link between women’s participation in peace processes and mental health and psychosocial…

Afghanistan: 8 March: UN Says Gender Inequality Has Worsened in Informal Settlements

Mar 8, 2026 | Hasht e Subh
Hasht e Subh

According to UN-Habitat, rapid urban growth, displacement, and the return of migrants from neighboring countries have worsened gender inequality in informal settlements.

UN-Habitat program reported on…

Uganda: Women Are Leading Uganda’s Environmental Transformation - Are We Supporting Them Enough?

Mar 7, 2026 | Jeremiah Nyagah
The Independent

As Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day 2026 under the theme “Give to Gain”, we must look beyond celebration…

Liberia: Women’s Land Rights Are Not Favors, They Are Rights as NAWoLaR Officially Launched in Monrovia

Mar 6, 2026 | Francis G. Boayue
Front Page Africa

MONROVIA –The National Alliance for Women’s Land Rights (NAWoLaR) has been officially launched, signaling a unified national front to dismantle discriminatory practices that have long…

India: Supporting Women’s Leadership in Agrifood Systems in India

Mar 5, 2026 | Miranda Morgan and Meghajit Sharma Shijagurumayum
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Women are key actors in agrifood systems, playing leadership roles in agricultural cooperatives and producers’ organizations, large agribusinesses, and agrifood-related governmental and non-governmental institutions and…

South Africa: Women Farmers in South Africa Pay the Cost of Broken Irrigation Systems – The Story of One Cooperative

Mar 5, 2026 | Khulekani T. Dlamini
The Conversation

The South African government makes a great deal of the fact that it supports women’s empowerment in agriculture.

But does it?

As an anthropologist, I’ve been engaged…

Central African Republic: How Land Empowers Refugee Women and Builds Resilient Livelihoods in the Central African Republic

Mar 3, 2026 | Stella Fatime in Birao
UNHCR

At dawn, the communal field slowly comes to life in the Korsi neighbourhood of Birao in Vakaga, Central African Republic. Women arrive in small groups,…

Draft Agenda for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (NOW AVAILABLE)

Mar 2, 2026 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The draft agenda for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding is now available for review here! 

The Conference will be held 16-19 June 2026 (with…

Free Bodies, Free Territories: Reflections on the Right to Land, Water and Territories for Gender and Sexually Diverse People in Rural Contexts

Feb 27, 2026 | Sylvia Kay
La Via Campesina

How can land and agrarian reform create safe spaces for the LGBTQIA+ community? What does it mean to struggle for recognition and rights to land,…

Women From Rural, Forest, and Waterside Communities Fighting for Comprehensive and Popular Agrarian Reform

Feb 21, 2026 | La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina

Grassroots feminist women know that there can be no food sovereignty without women’s autonomy, just as there can be no social justice without land redistribution…