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Inside Conflict: What Does Research Reveal About Women's Rights and Changing Gender Roles in Yemen?

Jul 24, 2017 | Suzy Madigan

Until the acceleration of violence in 2015, women in Yemen were making some headway in challenging a system that largely excludes them from public life.…


How Men Can Promote Gender-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction

Jul 13, 2017 | Alex Rohlwing

Gender’s importance and the vital roles played by women in all facets of development, humanitarian aid, and disaster response are increasingly recognized. But recognition is…


Afghanistan/Iran: Iran Criticism of Afghan Dam Projects Draws Rebuke from Kabul Officials

Jul 5, 2017 | Noor Zahid, Voice of America

Afghan officials reacted strongly to recent remarks by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani concerning water management and irrigation projects in Afghanistan. Speaking at an international conference…


DRC: In DRC, Women Challenge Custom to Assert Legal Right to Inherit Land

Jul 5, 2017 | Esther Nsapu, News Deeply

Traditionally, women in the DRC gained shares in property through marriage, not inheritance – and today, few realize that this custom contradicts the law. In…


Global Rights, Local Struggles: Barriers to Women's Participation in Community Land Decision-Making

Jun 28, 2017 | Celine Salcedo-La Vina

Seven women quietly filed in and sat on the rough cement floor of the tiny stone block house. We were in a small, dusty village…


Understanding Gender, Conflict And The Environment

Jun 5, 2017 | Alex Reid

The importance of gender in our understanding of the environment and conflict is often camouflaged. Take, for example, the infamous natural resource exploitation that characterised…


Understanding Gender, Conflict and the Environment

Jun 5, 2017 | Doug Weir

Last year’s landmark UNEA-2 resolution on conflict and the environment, the most significant of its kind since 1992, was the product of tough negotiations. Fortunately…


DRC: Study Finds Congo's Miners often Resort to Hunting Wildlife for Food

May 26, 2017 | Phys.org

A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) has revealed how mining for valuable minerals in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a major…


Afghanistan: Introducing Safaroma, a Movement and a Brand to Empower Afghan Women with Saffron

May 26, 2017 | Digital Journal

When it comes to Afghanistan, the public knows about war, crime, and the opium drug trade (most of the world’s deadliest drug comes from Afghanistan).…


Myanmar: Drilling for a Dream in Myanmar

May 24, 2017 | Adam Dean, New York Times

Nga Naung Mone is one of three oil fields near the town of Minhla, in south central Myanmar, and the largest by far. The others,…


Afghanistan: USAID Hosts Women’s Agriculture Credit Shura to Improve Lives and Livelihoods of Afghan Women Farmers

May 24, 2017 | USAID

One of the most difficult challenges for women farmers and agriculture-related business owners in Afghanistan is the access to credit for their agriculture operations, and…


Myanmar: As Myanmar Democratizes, Women’s Rights Lag Behind

May 16, 2017 | Mike Ives, New York Times

Change is coming to Myanmar as it transitions to democracy. But when it comes to protecting women from violence, the needle has barely budged. Myanmar…


Afghanistan: Land-Grabbing Still in Practice in Logar

May 15, 2017 | Abdul Maqsud Azizi, Pajhwok

Tens of thousands of acres of land has been usurped by powerful individuals and ordinary people in central Logar province, a practice still ongoing, officials…


LDC Women in World Climate Talks: Building a Cohort of Champions

May 2, 2017 | Janna Tenzing

The upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn will include a workshop on 10-11 May to develop elements of a 'Gender…


National Monitoring and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Justice

Apr 25, 2017 | ADWID

Since 2012, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) has been advocating for a transformative development framework that addresses the structural causes of…


South Sudan: SPLA-IO Vows to Stop Oil Production, Warns of “Serious Consequences”

Apr 1, 2017 | South Sudan News Agency

The military command of South Sudanese rebels, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO), on Saturday, warned against any oil exploration in areas under its…


Women’s Crucial Role in Combating Climate Change

Apr 1, 2017 | Alina Tugend

The link between climate change and women’s rights may seem baffling to some.But for Zandile Gumede, the first female mayor of Durban, South Africa, they…


Conflict Minerals: State Department Reviewing Conflict Minerals Sourcing

Mar 28, 2017 | Andrea Vittorio, Bureau of National Affairs

The State Department and other federal agencies are looking at efforts to break the link between armed groups and the minerals trade in and around…


Global Warming Is a Matter of Survival for Pacific Islander Women

Mar 28, 2017 | Kristi Eaton

For Viva Tatawaqa and women like her, climate change is not a question of when. According to the activist from Fiji, it's a question of…


Myanmar: Government to Return Land to Farmers

Mar 7, 2017 | Min Thant and Htay Hla Aung, Eleven

Dr Soe Than, regional minister for agriculture, livestock and irrigation, said: “We’re assessing the land. It shouldn’t take long. Within this year we will be…


Afghanistan: Enhancing the Success of Afghanistan’s Women Farmers

Mar 7, 2017 | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Against the odds, a new agricultural outreach model targeting rural women is taking shape in Afghanistan – and delivering on its promise of empowerment, greater…


For Rural Afghan Women, Agriculture Holds the Potential for Better Jobs

Jan 12, 2017 | Anuja Kar and Mansur Ahmed

In Afghanistan, agriculture continues to be the backbone of the rural economy – about 70% of the population in rural areas is engaged in on-farm…


Missing Voices: Let's Hear Women's Experiences of Climate Change

Jan 6, 2017 | Anne Schulthess

Attending the UN climate talks feels like a big deal. Despite having been in the climate change movement for some years, Bonn was my first…


Liberia: First Forest Atlas for Liberia Launched

Dec 19, 2016 | J. Burgess Carter, Daily Observer

The international resource organization, World Resource Institute and the Forestry Development Authority recently launched the first Forest Atlas for Liberia to promote sustainable forest management…


Afghanistan: Afghanistan Women Farmers Demonstrate Agriculture Can Recover after War

Dec 19, 2016 | Sarina Locke, ABC News

An aid project in Afghanistan helps enterprising women to multiply grain seeds for cropping, share vegetable seeds and breed better goats. So far the work…


Sudan: Sudan Pressures OVL for Higher Tax, Sits on Extension

Dec 6, 2016 | Time of India

Sudan is playing hardball with India on the issue of extending the licence for an oilfield with a view to extracting additional revenue, even though…


Land: Rural Women Demand Increased Access to Land Rights

Dec 6, 2016 | Gbatemah Senah, Bush Chicken

Amid the celebration of the UN Women-led 16 Days of Activism, a group representing rural women in Liberia has presented a list of demands for…


Women's Leadership: Critical to Securing the Paris Agreement; Essential to Fulfilling It

Nov 11, 2016 | Courtney Durham, Natalie Elwell, and Cynthia Elliot

The Paris Agreement on climate change wouldn’t be what it is today without action from strong women from around the world. Christiana Figueres, the UNFCCC…


Colombia: Plan Colombia Casts Shadow on Indigenous Rights as Peace Nears

Oct 12, 2016 | teleSUR

Marginalized Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Colombia have been among the most battered by more than five decades of internal armed conflict between the military,…


Liberia: Concessions Violate Women’s Rights

Oct 12, 2016 | Daily Observer

A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women’s Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International…