International News
Liberia: More Than 1.3 Million Hectares Now under Community Ownership & Control
Mar 5, 2021
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Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPage Africa
Local communities across Liberia seem to be taking advantage of the new Land Rights Law to reclaim their ancestral land. With more than 1.3 million…
Myanmar: Women's Clothes Help Protesters Skirt Myanmar's Junta
Mar 5, 2021
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AFP, Deccan Herald
Sarong-like cloths strung out on lines may seem innocuous, but long-held superstitions around women's clothes appear to have stopped security forces in their tracks as they move to quell an…
Afghanistan: Govt's Agreement with Australian Company Sparks Controversy
Mar 4, 2021
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Mir Haidar Shah Omid, TOLOnews
A document seen by TOLOnews shows that the Afghan government has awarded a five-year "framework agreement" for the development of mining in Afghanistan to an…
UNDP Calls for Temporary Basic Income to Help World’s Poorest Women Cope with Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic
Mar 4, 2021
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UNDP
A temporary basic income (TBI) given specifically to hundreds of millions of women in the world’s developing countries could prevent rising poverty and widening gender…
Colombia: Colombia’s National Parks at a Crossroads as New Director Installed
Mar 3, 2021
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Aurora Solá, Mongabay
It happened the way it so often does in Colombia: the government announced a new official appointment and outrage ensued. As the year 2020 drew…
Women Fighting Wildlife Crime
Mar 3, 2021
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UNDP
Through positions they occupy in all walks of life – as influencers in their communities, frontline defenders and wildlife managers, government decision-makers, legislators, scientists, and…
Liberia: Weah Frowns at Border Disputes in South-Eastern Counties
Feb 28, 2021
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Alvin Worzi, Observer
President George M. Weah has announced the setting-up of special a committee compromising elders, chiefs and members of the legislative caucuses of Maryland, River Gee…
Iraq: In Oil-Rich Iraq, a Few Women Buck Norms, Take Rig Site Jobs
Feb 28, 2021
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Samya Kullab, Associated Press
Zainab Amjad and Ayat Rawthan, both 24, are among just a handful who have eschewed the dreary office jobs typically handed to female petroleum engineers…
Promoting Peace and Protecting Women’s Rights in Contexts Affected by Violent Extremism, Especially During COVID-19 Pandemic
Feb 16, 2021
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UN Women
In 2020, even as governments around the world rallied to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of countries and their populations continued to…
Afghanistan: Kabul’s Unquenchable Thirst: Crisis Looms in Afghan Capital as Groundwater Reserves Run Dry
Feb 15, 2021
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Ben Farmer and Ezzatullah Mehrdad, Telegraph
When Shoaib Musawi entered the well-digging trade 15 years ago, all he needed to sink a well shaft in central Kabul was a pick and…
Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change
Feb 12, 2021
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Michelle Langrand, Geneva Solutions
Women are among the most affected by climate-related insecurity, and yet they’re often absent from the conversation. Experts hope that by understanding how they are…
Ghana: Empowering Women in Climate Action with Alternative Livelihood Options
Feb 12, 2021
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Praise Nutakor, GhanaWeb
Like many people in rural communities in Ghana, Mali Yakubu and her family in Tampion in the Northern Region are not able to farm during…
Ethiopia/Sudan: Will Sudan-Ethiopia Border Conflict Affect GERD Talks?
Feb 11, 2021
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Hagar Hosny, Al-Monitor
Border tensions have escalated between Sudan and Ethiopia in the past few days, coupled with Ethiopian threats to Sudan if it does not respond to…
Ethiopia: Pregnant Women Struggle to Find Support, Stability After Displacement From Tigray Region in Ethiopia
Feb 11, 2021
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UNFPA
GONDAR, Ethiopia – “When you think about your future, you never plan to be uprooted from the comfort of your home and find fragile safety in a…
Nigeria: Farmer-Herders Conflict: Senate Warns against Ethno-Religious War, Famine
Feb 10, 2021
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Sanni Onogu, Nation
The increasing spate of insecurity may lead to an ethnoreligious war and famine, Deputy Senate Leader, Ajayi Boroffice, has said. He is worried that the nation…
UNFPA Elevates Climate Action to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Women and Girls During the Decade of Action
Feb 10, 2021
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UNFPA
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The impact of climate change is already being felt and is projected to intensify significantly over the next 10 years. During the Nairobi Summit in Kenya in…
Vietnam: US Firms behind Agent Orange Stand Trial in France
Feb 9, 2021
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Progressive International
The civil complaint targets more than 20 US chemical firms for their part in the production of Agent Orange, massively employed by US forces during…
India: Women Will Bear the Brunt of India’s New Farm Laws
Feb 9, 2021
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Bansari Kamdar, World Politics News
For over two months, hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers have been conducting sustained sit-ins on the outskirts of New Delhi. Undeterred by COVID-19 or violent police…
Myanmar: Myanmar’s Troubled Forestry Sector Seeks Global Endorsement after Coup
Feb 8, 2021
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Mongabay
In the midst of political chaos fomented by a Feb. 1 military coup of the government in Myanmar, the country’s forestry sector is seeking legitimization…
Bangladesh: Gender Equality Can Bring Sustained Peace, Security
Feb 8, 2021
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The Daily Star
Ensuring equality between men and women both in public and private spheres can bring about sustainable peace and security, foreign diplomats and civil society members…
India: Assam: Aaranyak Installs 18-km Solar-Powered Fence in Nagrijuli to Reduce Human-Elephant Conflict
Feb 7, 2021
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Ne Now News
The premier biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak has installed 18 km of solar-powered fence to facilitate human-elephant coexistence at Nagrijuli in Baksa district. Aaranyak said this…
Kenya: How Women in Aquaculture Can Contribute to Social Stability in Kenya
Feb 4, 2021
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Margaret Gatonye, The Fish Site
A continued question that is asked in international relations circles is how to create stability and growth in post-conflict societies. Often solutions revolve around how…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Successfully Tests Water Flow at Major Dam
Feb 3, 2021
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Shadi Khan Saif, Anadolu Agency
Afghanistan on Wednesday successfully tested water flow at a major dam in southwestern Nimroz province bordering Iran after nearly six decades of the inception of…
Nigeria: Pastoralist-Farmer Conflict a Threat to Food Security as Inflation Spikes
Feb 2, 2021
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Funsho Idowu, Proshare Research
Nigeria could suffer a major food blowback in 2021 as the fisticuffs between pastoralists and farmers morph into regional theatres of conflict with regions of…
The Impact of War on the Health of Millions of Women and Children
Feb 2, 2021
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Robby Berman, Medical News Today
“Today, more than half of the world’s women and children are living in countries experiencing active conflict. The international community cannot continue to ignore their…
Middle East: ‘Making Our Home Safe Again’: Meet the Women Who Clear Land Mines
Jan 31, 2021
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Jessie Williams, The Guardian
After decades of war, more and more women are working to remove lethal mines and IEDs from the fields and cities of their homelands. It’s…
New Guide Aims to Accelerate Forest Tenure Pathways to Gender Equality
Jan 28, 2021
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Julie Mollins, Forest News
Forest tenure reform in the global south has often failed to be gender-responsive, but there is increasing interest in taking up this challenge to activate…
Myanmar: Ethnic Groups Demand Input in Myanmar Land Reforms
Jan 28, 2021
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Nan Lwin, Irrawaddy
Development organizations and farming groups from ethnic minority areas have called on the government to postpone land reforms, saying they will crush indigenous people’s rights.…
Cameroon/Congo/DRC: Illegal Logging Soars during Covid-19 Pandemic in Congo Basin
Jan 27, 2021
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University of Wolverhampton’s Centre for International Development and Training
A study by the University of Wolverhampton’s Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT), has revealed that global climate goals and livelihoods of forest communities…
India: ‘It Isn’t Just Men Who Drive Tractors’: Women Help Lead India’s Historic Farm Protests
Jan 27, 2021
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Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
MUMBAI, India — Sunita Malik sat in the driver’s seat of her tractor, parked behind a police barricade at the edge of India’s capital. She and her…