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Latin America: Latin Women Lead the Fight Against Climate Change Using Indigenous Agriculture

Jan 5, 2025 | The Latin American Post Staff

Throughout Latin America, indigenous women use old farming methods to fight climate change. In places like Peru and Guatemala, they work hard to keep food…

Addressing Gender Issues Strengthens Peace Agreements

Jan 2, 2025 | Josh Stowe

When it comes to peace processes and negotiations, U.N. Women highlights a stark reality: All too often, women remain invisible and excluded. But a new…

Acehnese Women: Crucial Role in Peacebuilding Overlooked, Discriminated by Local Regulations

Dec 24, 2024 | Suraiya Kamaruzzaman

Acehnese women have long been integral to the history of their region, particularly after the 2004 tsunami, one of Indonesia’s deadliest natural disasters, and the Helsinki…

Kenya: Lamu Women Embrace Sustainable Business for Climate Action

Dec 23, 2024 | Amenya Ochieng

In a move to combat unemployment and climate vulnerabilities, women in Lamu are being encouraged to embrace nature-based business solutions. This initiative was highlighted during the…

Kenya: Turkana Women Awarded Business/Peace Building Grants

Dec 18, 2024 | Peter Gitonga

More than 220 women traders from cross-border villages in Turkana West and Loima Sub-Counties have been awarded a Sh4 million grant to enhance their businesses…

Biodiversity Management at the Service of Gender Equity

Dec 18, 2024 | Natalia Jiménez Galindo

The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) was held this past October in the city of Cali, Colombia.…

Additional Call for Glossary Contributions

Dec 18, 2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

We are following up on our earlier announcement to invite contributions to the Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms. This time, we are encouraging more mid-…

Additional Call for Glossary Contributions

Dec 18, 2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

We are following up on our earlier announcement to invite contributions to the Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms. This time, we are encouraging more mid-…

COP29: Enhancing Gender Equality In Climate Action

Dec 17, 2024
ZeeNews India

As international leaders gathered to negotiate climate policies and commitments, the imperative of including women in developing sustainable solutions became increasingly evident, demonstrating the urgent…

Colombia: Is it important to look at the gender dimensions of post-harvest food loss and waste?

Dec 17, 2024 | Sebastian Sanchez Rincon, Manuel Moreno, Guillermo Peña Chipatecua, and Mónica Juliana Chavarro Rodríguez

In low- and middle-income countries, inadequate and ineffective post-harvest management results in significant losses, thus reducing food availability, increasing prices and contributing to climate change.…

Additional Call for Glossary Contributions

Dec 17, 2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

We are following up on our earlier announcement to invite contributions to the Glossary of Environmental Peacebuilding Terms. This time, we are encouraging more mid-…

Cambodia: Making Peace Work for Everyone: Advancing Women, Peace, and Security in Cambodia

Dec 17, 2024
UN Women Asia Pacific

Women are indispensable to preventing conflict, building peace, and fostering recovery. Yet, their voices often remain marginalised in formal peace processes and decision-making. To address…

Chad: “I Came to Help My Sisters”: As Chad Grapples with Record Floods and A Refugee crisis, Midwives Are Bridging the Divide

Dec 17, 2024 | UNFPA

“The water ruined everything – the rice, the money... Everything is under water.” In October 2024, Gloria Nadjitessem, 31, lost her home in Chad’s capital…

Afghanistan: EU Commits €19.8mn to Empower Women and Foster Economic Resilience in Afghanistan

Dec 16, 2024 | DARYO
DARYO

The European Union has allocated €19.8mn to the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and Aga Khan Cultural Services (AKCS) for the "Economic Resilience, Women’s Economic Empowerment, and Job…

Call for Nominations: Al Moumin Award for Thought Leadership in Environmental Peacebuilding

Dec 12, 2024 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) is seeking nominations for the 2025 Al-Moumin Award and Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Peacebuilding. The award and lecture are named…

Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Women Are Leading the Battle Against Climate Change

Dec 11, 2024 | Farai S. Matiashe

When Susan Chinyengetere started to focus on farming in her home village in south-eastern Zimbabwe, she wondered if she could earn a living and raise…

How Atubandike Dialogues are Redefining Gender and Youth Inclusion in Zambian Agriculture

Dec 10, 2024 | Monica Fisher

Women and youth are essential drivers of agricultural and economic resilience in Zambia’s rural farming communities. However, they frequently encounter significant barriers such as restrictive…

Liberia: Women Enjoying Ancestral Land Rights

Dec 10, 2024 | Matenneh Keita
Front Page Africa

JORPOLU, Bong County – In the 1980s and 90s,  Annie Wehyee’s relatives did not allow her to make a farm on a plot of land…

Sri Lanka: Female De-Miners Clear Path to Postwar Recovery

Dec 9, 2024 | Akanksha Saxena
DW

At dawn, 48-year-old Sivakumar Chandradevi loads equipment and supplies onto a boat that sets off for Mantivu, a deserted island off the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka.

The…

Honoring Haitian Women Challenging Injustice and Ushering in Change in Haiti and Beyond

Dec 6, 2024 | Shayane Dalencourt-Simon

In the middle of the 16 days of activism against gender violence, we honor the defense done by women in Haiti and their pivotal role…

Empowering Women Peacebuilders

Dec 6, 2024 | Editorials
Editorials

After the United States assumed the presidency of the Security Council for December, its first signature event focused on the role of women in peace…

Kosovo: Regional Youth Camp on “Peacebuilding and Gender Equality” & Workshop on “Women and Gender Manual”

Dec 6, 2024 | forumZFD
forumZFD

From November 7th to 9th, 2024, forumZFD organized a Regional Youth Camp aimed at developing dialogue, understanding and cooperation among young people (aged 17 to 25) from different…

Investments in Women, Peace and Security Agenda Vital ‘for Preventing Conflict, Achieving Sustainable, Inclusive Peace’, Senior Official Tells Security Council

Dec 3, 2024 | UN News

Amid an era of conflict and violence, the Security Council and the international community at large must include women and girl peacebuilders in discussions at…

COP Climate Talks Could Benefit From More Feminist Values, Less Focus on Tech Solutions, Experts Say

Dec 3, 2024 | Bob Berwyn

With few signs that 30 years of United Nations climate talks have significantly slowed the pace of the greenhouse gas emissions warming the climate, calls to…

Women Land Rights Taskforce Of Liberia (WLRTFL) Climax One Day Awareness On Women’s Land Rights For Women In Rural Montserrado in commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism

Dec 2, 2024 | Press Release

Moiuton Corner, Brewerville – In a significant step toward empowering women in Liberia, 26 women from the Moiuton Corner, Brewerville community have benefited from a one-day…

Liberia: Women Land Rights Taskforce of Liberia Raise Awareness on Women’s Land Rights for Women in Rural Montserrado

Dec 2, 2024 | Joscious Cecelia Ballah
Front Page Africa

Moiuton Corner, Brewerville – In a significant step toward empowering women in Liberia, 26 women from the Moiuton Corner, Brewerville community have benefited from a one-day…

Colombia: Land Adjudication Regulated for Peasant Women in Colombia

Nov 29, 2024 | Prensa Latina
Presna Latina

The regulation, consisting in a special land adjudication program for rural and peasant women with the objective of improving their social and economic well-being, was…

Colombia: Women in Putumayo Turn to Fish Farming and Away from the Coca Industry

Nov 28, 2024 | Iñigo Alexander
Mongabay

EL VENADO, Colombia — Until recently, the rolling green hills surrounding the tiny Colombian community of El Venado were covered with illegal coca plantations. Deep in the…

Afghanistan: Afghan Women Harvest Saffron; Breath of Fresh Air in Afghanistan [Video]

Nov 23, 2024 | WION

A breath of fresh air for Afghan women whose rights have been trampled by archaic Taliban laws. Women in the Herat province are harvesting the…

Papuan Women’s Mangrove Forest Increasingly Threatened by Pollution

Nov 22, 2024 | Associated Press

On the southeastern coast of the city of Jayapura, Petronela Merauje walked from house to house in her floating village inviting women to join her…