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Women, Peace and Security Champion Profile: Network of Civic Women for Peace, Thailand
Sep 11, 2025
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UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
Based in Pattani, in Thailand’s Deep South, the Network of Civic Women for Peace (Civic Women) is an inspiring community-based women’s empowerment organization that has…
Mary’s New Harvest: How Innovation Is Changing Farming in Embu
Sep 10, 2025
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Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Lutomia Cosmas, and Victor Nyamolo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT
Mary, a smallholder farmer in Runyenjes, Embu, joined GTSTIB pilots to test new seeds, soil tools, and gender dialogues. Her yields and family nutrition improved, empowering her voice in…
They Dug for Decades for Colombia’s Disappeared and Now They Are a National Symbol
Sep 9, 2025
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Astrid Suarez
AP News
Luz Elena Galeano intently watches as the earth is sifted for clothing, documents and bone fragments, hoping for a sign of her husband, who disappeared…
Risking It All to Feed the Children: Liberian Women Exercise Right to Trade Without Fear
Sep 8, 2025
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Front Page Africa
Front Page Africa
Eighteen years ago, Saybah Fomba left Liberia for Sierra Leone, braving the uncertainty of her first cross-border trading trip. Nearly two decades later, the once…
Empowering Women Key to Easing Stress Amid War in Ukraine: UN Women
Sep 3, 2025
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Nathalie Minard
UN News
Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and 11 years since conflict began, the toll on people’s mental health is severe.
Women and girls…
Afghanistan: Women Mushroom Farmers in Kabul Seek Cold Storages
Sep 2, 2025
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Sonita Azizi
Pajhwok Afghan News
A number of women in Kabul, working with diligent hands and hopeful hearts to cultivate mushrooms using straw, lime and bran, say they need cold…
AU Seeks Women’s Hand in Bringing Peace to Sudan, Sahel, Horn of Africa
Aug 31, 2025
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Dotto Lameck
Daily News
IN strengthening the African Union’s efforts to advance the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda across the continent, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission…
The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable
Aug 24, 2025
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Katie Surma
Inside Climate News
When Jingjing Zhang saw a string of urgent texts light up her phone, she knew something had gone wrong.
Photo and video messages showed a tidal…
From Scrap Collector to Climate Warrior: How a Vietnamese App Is Empowering Women
Aug 15, 2025
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Thao Hoang
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
Every morning, before the city awakens, 38-year-old Ngô Thị Thu pushes her handcart through the alleys of Mễ Trì Thượng, a ward in the Vietnamese…
Climate Change: Why Women, Peace and Security Plans in the Mediterranean Must Confront Climate Risks
Aug 14, 2025
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Ibukun Taiwo
CGIAR
Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) National Action Plans are a powerful but underused tool for tackling the interconnected challenges of gender, climate, and conflict. Across…
Liberia: House Speaker Koon Pledges Action on Rural Women’s Land Rights
Aug 11, 2025
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Francis G. Boayue
Front Page Africa
MONROVIA – House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon has vowed to champion legislative reforms aimed at empowering rural women and strengthening land rights across Liberia. His…
Tanzania: Protecting Women’s Land Tenure Rights Begins with Women
Aug 8, 2025
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Deodatus Mfugale
IPP Media
At the age of 70 years, Rehema Mfaume has to face economic and social hardships after her land was taken away by her late husband’s…
Pakistan: Pakistani Musicians Use Folk Songs and Rap to Raise Climate Change Awareness
Aug 6, 2025
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Riazat Butt
AP News
UMERKOT, Pakistan (AP) — Villagers hush when Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai starts singing about climate change, her clear voice rising above the simple squat dwellings.
“We…
Kenya: Project to Anchor Women in Coast Peace and Security Efforts
Aug 2, 2025
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Douglas Namunane
Kenya News
A non-governmental organisation has unveiled a programme that aims to strengthen women leadership in peace and security in the coastal region.
Dubbed Mwanamke Imara, the two-year…
Dominican Republic: Making Space for Women in Mangrove Conservation
Jul 26, 2025
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Sumina Subba
Women4VBiodiversity
Mangroves are the green shields of our ecosystem. In recent times, these green lines of defense are disappearing and with them, the protection they offer…
Colombia: Empowering Women and Protecting the Planet: Resilient Coffee Production in La Celia, Colombia
Jul 21, 2025
Sainsbury's
Sainsbury’s and Finlays have partnered to launch a dedicated roast & ground product sourced directly from the lush, rolling hills of La Celia – a…
Afghanistan: Against the Odds, Afghan Women are Building Livelihoods and Resilience
Jul 18, 2025
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UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
Kabul, Afghanistan — Even in the face of relentless obstacles, Afghan women continue to find opportunities to lead, build and hope, with UN Women standing by…
China: Gender and Social Inclusion Matter for Agrobiodiversity
Jul 17, 2025
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Marlène Elias and Amelia Arreguín Prado
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
When people think about agrobiodiversity, they often imagine seed banks, crop trials, or ecosystem services. But behind every saved seed and managed landscape are people–often…
Bangladesh: Climate Change Threatens Women’s Health
Jul 11, 2025
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Anaya Malik
EMJ
Climate change is severely affecting the physical and psychological health of reproductive-age women living in Bangladesh’s coastal communities, according to a new study. The research,…
Colombia: The Peace Deal that Put Women First: What Colombia Taught the World
Jul 10, 2025
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UN Women
UN Women
“We did not want peace to be made for us. We wanted to be the peacemakers,” says Marina Gallego. She works with Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres (Women’s…
Ecuador: In Ecuador’s Rainforest, Women Gather to Defend the Amazon With Law—and Sisterhood
Jul 4, 2025
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Latin American Post
Latin American Post
Forty Indigenous leaders, lawyers, and organizers journeyed deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon last week, not for protest or spectacle, but to build a transnational legal…
Colombia: Women in Colombia Pioneer Coca Leaf Ink, Turning Stigma into Opportunity
Jun 30, 2025
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Darvin Salamanca
Colombia One
Colombian designers Mónica Suárez and Daniela Rubio run Ginger Blonde, a graphic design and visual communication studio pioneering the use of coca leaves as a…
Africa: African Women Are Key to Fighting Climate Change: These Are the Green Skills They Will Need
Jun 30, 2025
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Ogechi Adeola, Innocent Ngare, and Olaniyi Evans
The Conversation
Women are an important and often underutilised human resource in Africa. They’ve faced many problems historically. Limited access to land, finance, education and decision-making platforms…
Georgia: Peace Trailblazer: “Young Women Are not just Participants in Peacebuilding – We Are its Pulse”
Jun 30, 2025
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UN Women
UN Women
Eleonora Tchania (26) is the co-founder and researcher of the youth peace network 16th Element and Projects Coordinator at the Center for Peace and Civic…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Women Are Still Fighting: Inside the Fight for Rights Under Taliban
Jun 27, 2025
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UN Women
UN Women
Just four years ago, a woman in Afghanistan could technically decide to run for President, attend university, or play sports.
Today, none of that is possible.…
Global: Dismantling Barriers to Women's Leadership in Building Peace
Jun 25, 2025
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UN OHCHR
UN OHCHR
“Peace needs to be inclusive and requires the participation of every citizen of society, not only half of it. Neglecting women from peacebuilding efforts misses…
Cyprus: The Learning Refuge: How Women-Led Community Efforts Help Refugees Resettle in Cyprus
Jun 23, 2025
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Suzan Ilcan and Seçil Daǧtaș
The Conversation
Since 2015, the Republic of Cyprus (ROC) has seen a steady rise in migrant arrivals and asylum applications, primarily from people from Middle Eastern and African countries like Syria, the…
Brazil: The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want
Jun 21, 2025
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Katie Surma
Inside Climate News
It was an audacious moment. During a recent government hearing, allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro berated Brazil’s environment and climate minister, telling Marina Silva she…
Latin America: How a Network of Women in Latin America Transformed Safe, Self-Managed Abortions
Jun 8, 2025
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Marta Martínez and Liana Simstrom
WUSF
In November 1990, more than 3,000 women descended on the sleepy beach town of San Bernardo del Tuyú, Argentina, for what was becoming a legendary…
Nepal: Centring Women’s Knowledge and Leadership in Nepal’s Climate Response
Jun 5, 2025
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Manjeeta Gurung
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
Indira Dhital, a local woman leader from Kavre, central Nepal, recently recited this poem at the culmination of a UN Women project focused on building…