International News

Kenya: Turkana’s Trailblazers: The Women Redefining Leadership on Oil-Rich Land

Oct 14, 2025 | Moraa Obiria
Daily Nation

What you need to know:  Two Turkana women, Veronica Natesiro and Jane Atabo, are breaking barriers by leading their community’s land governance in Lokichar.Through the Community…

Colombia: IOM and EU Launch Initiative to Strengthen Inclusive Disaster Preparedness in Latin America

Oct 13, 2025
International Organization for Migration

Bogotá, Colombia, 13 October 2025 – As climate-related disasters intensify across Latin America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union have launched Prepárate+,…

Nepal: Rural Women Reshaping Agriculture in Nepal

Oct 10, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

To mark International Day of Rural Women 2025, we celebrate their leadership, resilience and work towards a world where they are the architects and beneficiaries…

Mexico: Women in Mexico Step Up to Protect Ancient Aztec Farms and Save a Vanishing Ecosystem

Oct 8, 2025 | Teresa De Miguel
AP News

Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms…

DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC

Oct 3, 2025 | Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…

Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Study Links Climate Change, Gender, and Security Risks in Sri Lanka

Oct 2, 2025 | UNDP
Newswire

The United Nations launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint UN Development…

Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch

Oct 2, 2025 | James Reynolds

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.

President Gustavo Petro…

Ghana: In Coastal Ghana, Female Oyster Farmers Try to Save an Old Practice Threatened by Climate Change

Sep 18, 2025 | Naa Adorkor Cudjoe and Ope Adetayo
AP News

Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a…

Women, Peace and Security Champion Profile: Network of Civic Women for Peace, Thailand

Sep 11, 2025 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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…