International News
India: Agrobiodiversity Initiatives Open Women’s Horizons in Kerala
15 April 2020 | Mahima Jain, Mongabay
Kaliamma Nanjan, 70, sings as she cuts through her farm in Kerala’s Western Ghats. She deftly navigates the slopes of Attappady in Palakkad district with the gravity-defying dexterity of a mountain...
China: Roses in the Battlefield: Rural Women Farmers Join the Fight against COVID-19 in China
15 April 2020 | UN Women
In January 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic began spreading across China. Of the 42,600 medical workers dispatched to the hardest-hit Hubei Province, as of early March, two-thirds (28,000) were women, who...
Female-Led, Island-Based Solutions to Climate Change
14 April 2020 | Rebecca Root, Devex
According to the United Nations, the majority of people displaced by climate change are women. Given that small island developing states are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate chan...
Somalia: 'Most of the Men are your Enemies': One Woman's Crusade in Somalia
9 April 2020 | Neha Wadekar and Will Swanson
Ibado Mohammed Abdulle is a counsellor, friend and campaigner for women who have been made refugees in their own country by the impact of the climate crisis. The long, black hem of Ibado Mohammed Abdu...
Solomon Islands: Machetes in Hand, Women Join Forces to Fight Logging in Solomon Islands
8 April 2020 | John Beck, Reuters
IGWA, Solomon Islands - Jessica Jacinta was just a child when loggers first arrived in the forest a few miles from her Solomon Islands village of Igwa. Soon, they had cleared large stretches of land...
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Women Are the Key to a Lasting Peace
7 April 2020 | Sohrab Azad, The Diplomat
To guarantee a peace process that will materialize and come to fruition, women need to be substantively involved at every level, from pre-negotiation to talks.
UN Chief Calls for Domestic Violence ‘Ceasefire’ Amid ‘Horrifying Global Surge’
6 April 2020
UN chief António Guterres is calling for measures to address a “horrifying global surge in domestic violence” directed towards women and girls, linked to lockdowns imposed by governments respondi...
Indonesia: Empowering Indonesia’s Women Farmers
5 April 2020 | Dewa Made Agung, The Asean Post
An empirical study in the Springer Journal titled, Gender in Agriculture reveals that women lack access to agricultural inputs, training, information and marketing services. Furthermore, the Women’s...
Cameroon: Cameroon Anglophone Crisis: Women Bear the Brunt of Violence
4 April 2020 | Nicolas Haque
The United Nations secretary-general is repeating his appeal for a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic.Some armed groups have answered that call, including separatists in Cameroon.But a t...
Burkina Faso Crisis and COVID-19 Concerns Highlight Pressure on Sahel Food Security
2 April 2020
Food insecurity levels in the Sahel region are “spiralling out of control”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday, as it expressed concerns about the potential impact on humanitarian sup...