International News
Central African Republic: Central African Republic Seeks Justice for Rural Victims of Sexual Violence
10 September 2020 | Pacome Pabandji, Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGUI - Restoring court operations in rural parts of the war-torn Central African Republic is vital to tackling sexual violence and ensuring victims can seek justice, a top government official said,...
Press Release: UN Women and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Join Forces to Step Up COVID-19 Gender-Sensitive Responses
10 September 2020 | UN Women
UN Women and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have announced a new collaboration that would aim to protect women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region from the COVID-19 pandemic’s multiple negative c...
Book Launch: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible
5 September 2020 | Ilana Cohen, Inside Climate News
The American scientist Eunice Newton Foote theorized in 1856 that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could produce global warming three years before similar work by the Irish physicist John Tyndall,...
Hitting Women Hard, Pandemic Makes Gender Poverty Gap Wider - U.N.
2 September 2020 | Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation
More women than men will fall into extreme poverty due to the pandemic as they bear the economic brunt of COVID-19 and face bigger job losses. The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap betw...
Generations of Progress for Women and Girls Could be Lost to COVID Pandemic, UN Chief Warns
31 August 2020 | UN News
Highlighting the disproportionate and devastating socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls globally, The UN chief António Guterres called on Monday for a major push to prevent “years, e...
Brazil: Amazon ‘Women Warriors’ Show Gender Equality, Forest Conservation Go Hand in Hand
27 August 2020 | Rosamaria Loures and Sarah Sax, Inter Press Service
On an early December morning last year in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, half a dozen members of the Indigenous Guajajara people packed their bags with food, maps and drone equipment to get ready for...
Lebanon: UN Women Provides Emergency Relief for Women and Girls in Beirut
27 August 2020 | Sophie Partidge-Hicks, Global Citizen
After the devastating explosion in Beirut on Aug. 4, nonprofits have been dealing with the humanitarian consequences, including the growing crisis now affecting women and girls, especially as COVID...
Liberia: EPA Trains Over 40 Female Journalists to Report Environmental Issues
26 August 2020 | Alline Dunbar, FrontPage Africa
The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) last weekend concluded a two-day training for over 40 female journalists on ho...
Niger: Climate Resilient Agriculture Grants in Niger Empower Women-Managed Enterprises
26 August 2020 | Market Screener
In Niger, the agricultural sector employs 8 out of 10 people. It is estimated that if the gender gap was closed in agricultural productivity, it would unlock financial gains that could lift over 25,0...
Kenya: Kenya – Indigenous Women Overcome Discrimination to Lead Community COVID-19 Responses
24 August 2020 | Climate & Development Knowledge Network
In Kenya, indigenous women are tapping into local resources, and undertaking individual and collective initiatives to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. Rose Wamalwa reports. This is the twelfth in the serie...