International News
Afghanistan: 'Combatting Hidden Enemies': Meet the Women on the Front Line of De-mining Afghanistan
8 December 2019 | Roshan De Stone and David L. Suber, Independent
Nearly 100 Afghans are killed every month by unexploded mines, and yet when Gulandam first signed up to help with de-mining efforts, men would hurl insults at her in the street. “At the beginning w...
Colombia: Implementing Peace: Gender Issues Lag Behind
7 December 2019 | Tasha Sandoval, The Bogota Post
New analysis released today highlights a clear gap in the implementation of gender specific aspects of the Colombian peace agreement and stresses that the active participation of women is fundamental...
Jordan: Civil Society and Youth from the Arab States Review the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
6 December 2019 | UN Women Arab States
Over 70 representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) and youth advocates from across the Arab States region met in Amman, Jordan on 26 and 27 November, to conduct a parallel review and discus...
Bring Women to the Table to Build Peace in Africa, Say Gender Experts
30 November 2019 | Newsroom
Women bear the brunt of conflict and for peace building to be successful they must be involved in conflict resolution and reconstruction at every stage, said gender experts at the 2019 Global Gender S...
FAO Stands with Generation Equality to Oppose Rape
25 November 2019 | FAO
FAO is taking a stand against sexual and gender-based violence by participating in the UN Secretary-General’s campaign: UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women.
Vietnam: Strengthen Women’s Livelihoods and Participation for Greater Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change in Viet Nam
22 November 2019 | Thao Hoang, UN Women
When Tran Thi My Linh, a 51-year-old rural woman first said that she would replace her rice fields with lotus fields, she raised many eyebrows. In the little commune of Hoa Dong in Phu Yen province, j...
Democratic Republic of the Congo: How The Mining Business is Helping Women in Congo Escape Isolation
5 November 2019 | Eleonora Vio, TRT World
Congolese women entered the mining sector in the late 90s and ever since they have been fighting discrimination, superstition and outdated customs, while they successfully bring more and more women...
Iraq: How a Collective of Iraqi Women Is Bringing the Country Closer to Peace
1 November 2019 | WLPF International
A delegation representing the Iraqi Women’s Network attended the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) session on the 20th and 21st October 2019 and brie...
Netherlands: How Fairphone's Social Mission Created Gender Balance ... Without Really Trying
30 October 2019 | Oliver Balch
Eva Gouwens had heard that the tech industry was male-dominated, but it wasn’t until she attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for the first time that the extent of the gender imbalance re...
Colombia: People Choosing Peace: Women's Advocacy Group in Colombia Spread Hope With Quilt Project
29 October 2019
Yolanda Perea Mosquera and other women’s rights advocates in Colombia are sewing a colorful quilt. They plan to spread it out over the central square in the capital Bogotá in late November. Their m...