International News

Africa: African Women Are Key to Fighting Climate Change: These Are the Green Skills They Will Need

Jun 30, 2025 | 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…

Colombia: Women in Colombia Pioneer Coca Leaf Ink, Turning Stigma into Opportunity

Jun 30, 2025 | 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…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Women Are Still Fighting: Inside the Fight for Rights Under Taliban

Jun 27, 2025 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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…

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 | 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…

Colombia: Peace Has Long Been Elusive in Rural Colombia - Black Women’s Community Groups Try to Bring It Closer Each Day

Jun 3, 2025 | 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 | 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…

Sweden: OSCE Workshop Tackles Gender, Climate, Security

May 30, 2025 | 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:…

Liberia: From Farm to Market: Digital Platform Connects Women Farmers to Buyers

May 29, 2025 | 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,…

Cambodia: Lieutenant Colonel Sorm Leangy, a Force for Peace

May 29, 2025 | 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…

Mexico: Women Who Nourish the Earth: Yuridia Hernández and the Feminine Strength in Sustainable Agriculture

May 28, 2025 | 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 | 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…

Global: Who Are The Women Leading Peacekeeping?

May 22, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

In 1995, at the Fourth World Conference on Women, world leaders agreed to ensure that women lead and play decision-making roles in conflict resolution and peace efforts.…

Myanmar: For ALL Women and Girls: ‘Work with Us, not just for Us’, Urges Rohingya Activist

May 19, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

Born in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Lucky Karim was only 14 when genocidal violence forced her family to flee on 25 August 2017. Over seven…

Liberia: Men, Tradition Denying Women’s Rights to Land

May 16, 2025 | Esau Farr and Harry Browne
Front Page Africa

JORPOLU CLAN, Bong County – In 2018, Liberia passed the Land Rights Act. The historic legislation grants communities and women customary ownership of ancestral land, putting an end…

India: Indigenous Women and their ‘Dream Maps’ Seek to Protect Lands from Climate Change

May 15, 2025 | Sibi Arasu
AP News

At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The…

Kenya: Vihiga County Embarks Gender Based Violence Policies

May 8, 2025 | Rose Wasike and Walter Blessing
Kenya News Agency

Vihiga County government in collaboration with Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) and other stakeholders, is working on policies to guide…

Myanmar: ‘She Cries in her Sleep’: Deeper Crisis Looms Beneath Devastation from Myanmar Quake

May 8, 2025 | UN News
UN News

“I hate earthquakes. Earthquakes took my mother and my aunt away,” five-year-old Khin Yadanar told the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), after both her mother and aunt were…

Zambia: Sowing Knowledge, Reaping Impact: Lydia’s Journey from Trial Farmer to Community Leader in Monze, Zambia

Apr 29, 2025 | Kudzanai Chimhanda
Cimmyt

An early morning walk across the fields in Zambia’s Southern province, one is met with maize fields infested with fall armyworm. In contrast to last season’s El Nino…

Liberia: Senator Nuquay Rallies Margibi Women to Lead and Empower at MARWAPD Induction

Apr 28, 2025 | FPA Staff Reporter
Front Page Africa

Senator James Emmanuel Nuquay has called on women in Margibi County to stand together, support one another, and actively seek leadership roles across various sectors. 

Delivering…

International: Empowering Women and Youth for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Agri-Food systems

Apr 24, 2025 | Anastacia Wanjiru
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

At the 2025 CGIAR Science Week, a dialogue unfolded around the crucial intersection of gender equality, youth, and social inclusion within agri-food systems. This conversation, hosted…

International: IWPG Global Region 5 Champions Women’s Peace Education at UN CSW69

Apr 22, 2025 | Press Release
Front Page Africa

The International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) Global Region 5, led by Regional Director Sujin Park, took center stage at the 69th session of the United…

International: How Gender Inequality and Climate Change are Interconnected

Apr 21, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times. It threatens to reverse progress on human rights and sustainable development and…

Liberia: Access to Land Limits Women's Participation in Agriculture

Apr 7, 2025
New Dawn

Women's participation in agriculture is being severely hindered by limited access to land, according to Agnes Fred, Program Coordinator at Women in Agriculture and Sustainable…

Afghanistan: Ghor Farmer Women - From Flooding to Greenhouses Revival

Mar 27, 2025 | Nasrin Sayedi
Pajhwok Afghan Reflecting the Truth

Some women farmers in western Ghor province have begun efforts to restore their flood- affected agricultural lands and gardens in spring.

Last year, hundreds of acres…

Thailand: Two New Initiatives Launched on Gender Equality and Peacebuilding in Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces

Mar 26, 2025 | Montira Narkvichien and Naruedee Janthasing
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Two new community-based initiatives were launched during a recent mission to Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces (SBPs) by UN Women’s Regional Director for Asia and the…