International News
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Colombia: Peace Has Long Been Elusive in Rural Colombia - Black Women’s Community Groups Try to Bring It Closer Each Day
Jun 3, 2025
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Tania Lizarazo
MSN
It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one guerrilla group and the government, and three years since President Gustavo Petro vowed “total…
Liberia: RICCE Program Manager Urges Passage of Oil Palm Development Bill to Empower Women and Communities
Jun 3, 2025
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GNNLiberia
GNNLiberia
The Program Manager of the Rural Integrated Center for Community Empowerment (RICCE), Madam Renee N. Gibson, has called for the submission and passage of the…
Canada: Assembly of First Nations Releases 2025 Progress Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, Highlighting Human Trafficking Crisis
Jun 3, 2025
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The Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations
(June 3, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – On the sixth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered…
Sweden: OSCE Workshop Tackles Gender, Climate, Security
May 30, 2025
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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Mirage News
How gender intersects with climate-related security risks was one of the questions explored by experts and practitioners at the "Gendered Perspectives on Climate and Security:…
Cambodia: Lieutenant Colonel Sorm Leangy, a Force for Peace
May 29, 2025
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UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
"I was the first woman from my village to become a peacekeeper,” says Lieutenant Colonel Sorm Leangy, her voice steady with pride. “At first, people…
Liberia: From Farm to Market: Digital Platform Connects Women Farmers to Buyers
May 29, 2025
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Tina Mehnpaine
Front Page Africa
When scrolling through the UN Women and Orange Foundation-supported ”Buy from Women digital platform, the faces of four Liberian women farmers appear. Fifty-six-year-old Gertrude Kpoleh,…
Mexico: Women Who Nourish the Earth: Yuridia Hernández and the Feminine Strength in Sustainable Agriculture
May 28, 2025
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Sarah Martínez Gámiz
Cimmyt
In the lands of Oaxaca’s Mixteca, where rainfall no longer comes as it once did and the soil begins to feel the weight of years…
Tanzania: From Burden to Opportunity: Mechanization in Rural Tanzania
May 26, 2025
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Martin Majambele, Esther Cheyo, Radegunda Kessy, Atupokile Mwakatwila, Justus Ochieng, and Maximillian Saku
Alliance Biodiversity CIAT
Beneath vast Tanzanian skies, where fields stretch like patchwork quilts of promise, a quiet revolution is taking root. It doesn’t shout—but whispers change with every…