International News
Liberia: Economics of Nature: Mapping Liberia's Ecosystems to Understand Their Value
Mar 15, 2021
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Sofie Bates, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Conservation scientist Trond Larsen and his team trekked through a remote forest in Liberia, recording the plants, animals, and insects that they saw. They noted…
UNDP Launches Gender and Crisis Engagement Facility
Mar 15, 2021
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UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced the establishment of a new facility designed to strengthen women’s leadership and participation in crisis contexts.
Burkina Faso: No Trees, No Crops, No Jobs: Burkina Faso's Women Fall Back on Hard Labour
Mar 14, 2021
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Sam Mednick, Thomson Reuters News
Wiping her sandy fingers on her shirt, Balkissa Sawadogo for a moment rests her aching body from shovelling sand and gravel into piles. Three years ago,…
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone’s Mining Sector in Focus: 2018 – 2021
Mar 13, 2021
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Abdul Rashid Thomas, Sierra Leone Telegraph
In April 2018, His Excellency, Retired Brigadier Dr Julius Maada Bio became President of Sierra Leone, and, among other things, he promised to transform the…
Malala Yousafzai Says Educate Girls to Fight Climate Change
Mar 12, 2021
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Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters News
Keeping girls in school and taking young climate leaders seriously are keys to tackling climate change, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said on Friday. Speaking…
Integrate Climate Change with Sexual and Reproductive Health to Safeguard the Wellbeing of All
Mar 12, 2021
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UNFPA
“Climate change is one of the most disruptive issues of our time. Not only is it a disrupter of progress towards development, but it is…
Myanmar: UN Agency Raises Alarm Over ‘Targeted’ Violence Against Women in Myanmar Protests
Mar 12, 2021
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UN News
In addition, women in detention are also reportedly experiencing sexual harassment and violence, UN-Women said in a statement on Friday.
“Women have long played a celebrated and vital role in…
Latest Session of UN Women’s Commission Focuses on Equality in Public Life
Mar 12, 2021
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UN News
For the first time in its history, the Commission will be held almost entirely virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, with events organized by UN Women,…
Colombia: Colombia Power Sector Green Vow Draws Mixed Reviews
Mar 12, 2021
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Argus Media
US utility AES, Colombian generators Celsia, Urra and EPM, Italy's Enel and Colombia's state-controlled transmission giant Isa and its subsidiaries Transelca and grid manager XM…
Colombia: Strengthening Women’s Leadership Role in Colombia’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector
Mar 12, 2021
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Mirage News
In Colombia, the gold mining industry has typically employed men, with women’s participation extremely low, reaching only 5% of the total. But in Chocó, where…
United States: ‘A Dangerous Trajectory’: When Domestic Violence and Climate Change Converge
Mar 12, 2021
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Lee Ann De Reus, Women's Media Center
Burst water pipes, flooding, and power outages at domestic violence shelters in Texas displaced hundreds of survivors during mid-February’s aberrant winter weather. At one particular…
India: Women and Natural Resources: How Nature, Gender and Social Divisions Intersect
Mar 11, 2021
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Snow Leopard Trust
To conserve snow leopards and natural resources better, we must understand and identify the important roles that women can - and do - play in…
Mexico: Violence Against Women in Mexico Rises
Mar 9, 2021
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Mat Youkee, The Fair Observer
Home is not a safe space for many women around the world and coronavirus-era quarantines and lockdowns have increased the risk of gender-based violence. In…
Pacific Women in Climate Change Negotiations
Mar 9, 2021
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George Carter and Elise Howard, Asia & The Pacific Policy Forum
The under-representation of women in climate negotiations is well-established. When the global multilateral body on climate change, the Conferences of Parties (COP) of the United…
Myanmar: 'Until The World Shatters' Explores Jade's Role In Myanmar's Struggles [Audio]
Mar 8, 2021
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NPR
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to author Daniel Combs about his book Until the World Shatters, which explores the connection between Myanmar's jade industry and a…
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…