International News
Spain: How Climate Finance and Technology Could Better Integrate Women
30 December 2019 | Julie Mollins, Forest News
Amid frustrated negotiations around Article 6 guidance on emissions counting and carbon markets, U.N. COP25 climate talks delivered a decision on a five-year enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender....
Liberia: Southeast Women’s Land Rights Group Formed
27 December 2019 | Observer
A group whose goal is to protect and promote the rights of women in Southeastern Liberia was formed recently at a regional women’s conference held recently in Greenville, Sinoe County. The new Land...
Liberia: NaFAA Establishes Women in Maritime Liberia Chapter
24 December 2019 | FrontPage Africa
Liberia has joined others countries in Africa in the establishment of a chapter of Women in Maritime in Africa (WIMAFRICA) in partnership with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) of the Unit...
Afghanistan: For Women in Kabul, ‘It Is Just Me and the Water’
22 December 2019 | Fatima Faizi and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times
Though the city has become markedly more politically progressive in the nearly two decades it has been governed by a Western-backed democracy, Kabul is still steeped in a socially conservative Afghan...
Brazil: ‘The Forest is Shedding Tears’: The Women Defending Their Amazon Homeland
21 December 2019 | Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
It is midnight at an almost deserted bus station and one of the Amazon’s most courageous warriors is sitting on a plastic chair and breastfeeding her child, apparently indifferent to the hefty price...
Colombia: 2018 Delegation of Parliamentarians in Conversation with Rural Women in Villavicenco
18 December 2019
Members of the British Parliament participating in the August 2018 Delegation were: Chris Bryant MP and Patrick Grady MP. MP’s Conversation in Villavicencio with rural women: Diana, Yenny and Yuan...
Afghanistan: Over 600,000 Afghan Women to Attain Self-Sufficiency in Next Four Years through Agriculture
17 December 2019
Afghan Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Nasir Ahmad Durrani announced Tuesday that over 600,000 women would become self-reliant through an economic empowerment program in agriculture....
Colombia: Death Threats for Defending Land and Water from a Coal Mine: Force of Wayúu Women in Colombia
16 December 2019 | Land Rights Now
Members of the organization Fuerza de Mujeres Wayúu (Force of Wayúu Women) have received death threats and been subject to defamation and stigmatization for opposing the harmful effects of a mining...
Ghana: National Peace Council Trains Members on Gender Roles in Peacebuilding
15 December 2019 | Modern Ghana
As part of the mandate of the National Peace Council to facilitate measures to prevent, manage and resolve issues that threaten the development and peace of the country, the council in collaboration w...
Nepal: Rickshaw Drivers Break Stereotypes in Nepal
12 December 2019 | UN Women
Hira Kumari Sewa is among the few female rickshaw drivers in Nepal. Service is literally in her name.