International News

UK: Northern Ireland’s Rural Women at ‘Disproportionate Risk’ from Climate Change Carbon Budgets, Warns Campaign Group

Nov 30, 2025 | Mark Robinson
MSN

Rural women in the north are among those that could facing a “disproportionate” impact from the government’s future carbon-cutting budgets, according to a campaign group.

It comes…

Global: Cultivating Women’s Leadership for Resilient Agrifood Systems

Nov 26, 2025 | Sabrina Trautman
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

Women’s representation and leadership have long been recognized as drivers of more inclusive, equitable, and resilient food systems. Yet, too often, leadership is confused with…

Rwanda: Women at the Heart of TREPA’s Land Restoration in Rwanda’s Eastern Province

Nov 24, 2025 | Jean Claude Habimana
IUCN

In Rwanda’s Eastern Province, women and girls were limited to contributing to landscape restoration and environmental conservation, while men often took on roles such as…

Global: Gender is the Key to a Healthy Planet and People: Reflections from the Biodiversity-Health Press Conference at SBSTTA-27

Nov 19, 2025 | Alejandra Duarte
Women4Biodiversity

Traditional health systems, rooted in centuries of empirical knowledge, reveal the interdependence between ecosystems and human health. However, women’s ecological and health-related knowledge has often…

Kenya: How Gender-transformative Innovation Bundles are Revolutionizing Food Security in Kenya

Nov 18, 2025 | Eileen Bogweh Nchanji
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In Makueni, Kenya, farmers are boosting yields and empowering women through new gender-transformative innovation bundles. Introduced to overcome low tech adoption, the approach merges farming…

Afghanistan: UN Trust Fund Supports Women Livestock Farmers in Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province

Nov 9, 2025 | Fidel Rahmati
The Khaama Press News Agency

The UN Afghanistan Trust Fund is helping women-headed households in Ghazni raise livestock, offering training and tools to support their livelihoods.

The UN Afghanistan Trust Fund…

The Philippines: DENR Exec Highlights Link Between Women Leaders and Environmental Protection

Nov 6, 2025 | Jonathan Mayuga
Business Mirror

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary for Strategic Communications Marilou Erni emphasized that environmental protection and peacebuilding are deeply interconnected with women as…

UK: UK Announces Commitment to Advance Gender Equality in SA at G20

Nov 5, 2025 | Government of the United Kingdom
ReliefWeb

The UK pledges ZAR 18 million (£800,000) to South Africa’s Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) Fund. This will help more than 33,000 people through school-based…

Liberia: Nimba Women Agriculture Cooperative Launches Financial Loan Program to Empower Rural Women

Nov 4, 2025 | D. Franklin Doloquee
Front Page Africa

GANTA, Nimba County – Over twenty rural women from Ganta and its surrounding communities in Nimba County recently benefited from a new loan program launched…

Zambia: Zambian Women Take the Lead in Adapting Food Systems to Climate Change

Nov 3, 2025 | Giulia Caroli, Gracsious Maviza, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Rosemary Fumpa-Makano
New Security Beat

Women play vital roles as actors and innovators in food systems worldwide. In many societies, they are the primary food producers, accounting for between 60%…

Sri Lanka: Building Resilience, One Snack at a Time: The Story of Jayasumani Sivajothi

Oct 23, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

In Karaithivu, a coastal community in Sri Lanka’s Ampara District, the sea once brought devastation to the life of Jayasumani Sivajothi. The 2004 tsunami swept…

Somalia: Land Grabbing Crisis Deepens in Mogadishu as Women and Children Bear the Brunt

Oct 21, 2025 | Dahir Alasow
Suna Times

A new wave of forced evictions and illegal land grabbing is devastating communities across Mogadishu, displacing thousands of residents — many of them women and…

Liberia: UN Women, Rural Women Leaders Rally in Harper - Push for Climate Action, Peace, and Economic Empowerment

Oct 21, 2025 | Peter P. Toe, Jr.
Front Page Africa

Harper, Maryland County — In a country where women's voices are often overshadowed, UN Women continues to stand out as one of Liberia's strongest allies…

Global: Indigenous Women and the Path to a Just Energy Transition: Voices from the Land

Oct 20, 2025 | Galina Angarova and Daniela De León
Mongabay

Key Ideas: 

The implementation of the energy transition is unfolding at the expense of biodiversity and communities — particularly Indigenous women, says Galina Angarova and Daniela…

Colombia: Putumayo’s Women Guardians Defend Land and Culture Amid Colombia’s Deforestation

Oct 15, 2025 | Natalia Arbelaez
Mongabay

In Colombia southwest, Kamëntšá and Inga Indigenous women are at the forefront of the struggle to defend their territory, which provides water to the rest…

Kenya: Turkana’s Trailblazers: The Women Redefining Leadership on Oil-Rich Land

Oct 14, 2025 | Moraa Obiria
Daily Nation

What you need to know:  Two Turkana women, Veronica Natesiro and Jane Atabo, are breaking barriers by leading their community’s land governance in Lokichar.Through the Community…

Colombia: IOM and EU Launch Initiative to Strengthen Inclusive Disaster Preparedness in Latin America

Oct 13, 2025
International Organization for Migration

Bogotá, Colombia, 13 October 2025 – As climate-related disasters intensify across Latin America, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union have launched Prepárate+,…

Nepal: Rural Women Reshaping Agriculture in Nepal

Oct 10, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

To mark International Day of Rural Women 2025, we celebrate their leadership, resilience and work towards a world where they are the architects and beneficiaries…

Mexico: Women in Mexico Step Up to Protect Ancient Aztec Farms and Save a Vanishing Ecosystem

Oct 8, 2025 | Teresa De Miguel
AP News

Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms…

DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC

Oct 3, 2025 | Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…

Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch

Oct 2, 2025 | James Reynolds

Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.

President Gustavo Petro…

Sri Lanka: Landmark UN Study Links Climate Change, Gender, and Security Risks in Sri Lanka

Oct 2, 2025 | UNDP
Newswire

The United Nations launched a landmark study on how climate change, gender and security in Sri Lanka are interconnected. Commissioned by the Joint UN Development…

Afghanistan: Stripped of Inheritance, Women in Afghanistan Are Denied Even Their Own Property

Sep 28, 2025 | Elina Qalam
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Women in Kabul say that the patriarchal structure of society has deprived them of their right to ownership. They explain that because of stereotypes and…

Afghanistan: Did Restrictions on Women Workers Hamper Afghanistan’s Earthquake Response?

Sep 27, 2025 | Ruchi Kumar
Al Jazeera

In 2022, the Taliban government banned women from working in NGOs operating in the country. A year later, it also forbade Afghan women from working…

Ghana: In Coastal Ghana, Female Oyster Farmers Try to Save an Old Practice Threatened by Climate Change

Sep 18, 2025 | Naa Adorkor Cudjoe and Ope Adetayo
AP News

Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a…

Women, Peace and Security Champion Profile: Network of Civic Women for Peace, Thailand

Sep 11, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Based in Pattani, in Thailand’s Deep South, the Network of Civic Women for Peace (Civic Women) is an inspiring community-based women’s empowerment organization that has…

Mary’s New Harvest: How Innovation Is Changing Farming in Embu

Sep 10, 2025 | Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Lutomia Cosmas, and Victor Nyamolo
Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT

Mary, a smallholder farmer in Runyenjes, Embu, joined GTSTIB pilots to test new seeds, soil tools, and gender dialogues. Her yields and family nutrition improved, empowering her voice in…

They Dug for Decades for Colombia’s Disappeared and Now They Are a National Symbol

Sep 9, 2025 | Astrid Suarez
AP News

Luz Elena Galeano intently watches as the earth is sifted for clothing, documents and bone fragments, hoping for a sign of her husband, who disappeared…

Risking It All to Feed the Children: Liberian Women Exercise Right to Trade Without Fear

Sep 8, 2025 | Front Page Africa
Front Page Africa

 Eighteen years ago, Saybah Fomba left Liberia for Sierra Leone, braving the uncertainty of her first cross-border trading trip. Nearly two decades later, the once…

Empowering Women Key to Easing Stress Amid War in Ukraine: UN Women

Sep 3, 2025 | Nathalie Minard
UN News

Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and 11 years since conflict began, the toll on people’s mental health is severe.

Women and girls…