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Global: AI’s Environmental Footprint is a Gendered Security Risk

May 12, 2026 | Tamara Bah
New Security Beat

The infrastructure powering artificial intelligence (AI) has become both a political flashpoint and a signal for strategic warfare with significant military, geopolitical, and international security…

Global: Indigenous Leaders Call for Global Recognition of Peacebuilding Role as UN Forum Echoes Summit Outcomes

May 6, 2026 | E-Pao
E-Pao

Indigenous leaders, diplomats and United Nations officials convened in New York for the Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding, issuing a call to reframe global…

Global: UNDRR Expands Sendai Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism to LGBTIQ+ Persons Constituency

May 5, 2026 | United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has formally added an LGBTIQ+ Persons constituency to the Sendai Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM), marking an…

East Africa: “We Are Facing Increased Violent Land Dispossessions and Climate Injustices” – African Women

May 5, 2026 | Witnessradio.org
Witnessradio.org

Stories of displacement, land loss, and resilience filled the room as 45 women from six African countries gathered for the East Africa Women’s Land and…

South Africa: Climate Change Hits South African Women Unevenly: Why Race, Class, Age and Power Matter

Apr 28, 2026 | Petra Holden, Gina Ziervogel, and Leigh Stadler
The Conversation

As heat, floods and drought intensify, governments, donors and cities rely on climate risk assessments to decide who gets support and where money goes. A…

Global: Women Deliver 2026: Voices from The Pacific on Feminist Leadership and Resourcing

Apr 28, 2026 | Alliance Magazine
Alliance Magazine

Across the Pacific, women’s and feminist movements are leading transformative change in the face of climate pressures, shrinking civic space, fragile economies, and limited access…

Global: African Women Push for Reparations and Environmental Accountability after Landmark Climate Justice Day

Apr 25, 2026 | Witnessradio.org
Witnessradio.org

Women’s community organizations and grassroots movements across Africa are intensifying calls for climate reparations and environmental accountability following the inaugural African Women’s Climate Justice Day,…

Global: Indigenous Leaders from 80 Countries to Convene in New York for Historic Global Peace Summit

Apr 24, 2026 | Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network
Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network

At a time of escalating global conflicts, more than 150 Indigenous peacebuilders, elders, spiritual leaders, mediators, women leaders and youth from 80 countries will gather…

DRC: Goma: Women Trained on Their Role in Peacebuilding

Apr 13, 2026 | Aubin Mukoni
MONUSCO

Around thirty women, members of village savings and loan associations, took part on April 8 in Goma (North Kivu) in a training workshop focused on…

Global: OSCE Tackles Gender and Climate Change Nexus

Apr 11, 2026 | National Today
National Today

A major OSCE conference in Vienna brought together experts to examine the gendered dimensions of climate change and associated security risks across the organization's 57…

Lebanon: Conflict Drives Mental Health Crisis for Displaced Women: “We Hear, See and Feel Pain Constantly”

Apr 9, 2026 | UN Women
UN Women

The escalation in Lebanon, now in its sixth week, has stoked fear across the country and led to a mass displacement crisis, with women and…

Niger: How Community Shelters Protect Children and Help Women Restore Degraded Lands in Niger

Apr 4, 2026 | World Bank Group
Global News Network Liberia

Washington, USA, 03 April 2026 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Community-built shelters in Niger are enabling mothers to participate in land restoration work by providing shaded…

Liberia: New, Community-Led Conservation Delivering Promises

Apr 3, 2026 | Varney Kamara
allAfrica

Years ago, women in Wedjah and Jaedae Districts in Sinoe County processed cassava with their bare hands. Their story has changed for the better. They…

South Sudan: UNMISS Strengthens Capacity of Women-Led Organizations to Combat Climate Shocks

Mar 30, 2026 | UNMISS - United Nations Mission in South Sudan
United Nations

Every year, communities across South Sudan are devastated by severe flooding, due to climate change and inadequate infrastructure to cope with the impact. Those most…

Uganda: How Women are Still Walking Miles for Water and Paying the Price

Mar 22, 2026 | Ronald Musoke
The Independent

In the vast, sun-scorched plains of Uganda’s northeastern region of Karamoja, the search for water begins before the day has properly broken. In scattered homesteads…

Canada: PBI-Canada Notes Concerns about Risk of Violence to Indigenous Land Defenders, Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People near Major Projects

Mar 22, 2026 | Brent Patterson
PBI-Canada

Peace Brigades International-Canada expresses concern that proposed major extractive projects brings an increased risk of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people in communities…

Latin America: From the Amazon to Mesoamerica - Women, Science, and Policy are Shaping Resilient Agri-food Systems in Latin America

Mar 19, 2026 | Mariana Callejas
CIMMYT

Across Latin America, the transformation of agri-food systems is being driven by a powerful convergence: science, public policy, and the leadership of women farmers and…

Uganda: Alupo Launches African Pastoralist Women Network to Boost Land Rights

Mar 17, 2026 | Eddy Enuru
Nile Post

Vice President Jessica Alupo has officially launched the African Pastoralist Women Network (ARPWN) and a Learning Centre aimed at advancing gender justice, climate resilience, and…

Kenya & Ethiopia: When Women Intervene: The Quiet Peacebuilders of South Omo

Mar 10, 2026 | Daisy Cheruto Kosgei and Dorina Prech
International Alert

How do you build peace in a place where climate change is making it harder to find water and grazing land? Where communities have lived…

Brazil: Landless Women Mobilize for Agrarian Reform and Against Violence by Brazil

Mar 10, 2026 | Lays Furtado
Via Campesina

This year’s National Day of Landless Women’s Struggles began on March 8 and runs until next Thursday, the 12th, with mobilizations in all regions of…

Iran: Aliabouzar - Iranian Women Show What It Means to Be a Freedom Fighter

Mar 9, 2026 | Mitra Aliabouzar
MSN

Iranian women are among the most courageous freedom fighters of our time. No group has challenged the Islamic Republic more consistently and more systematically than…

Afghanistan: 8 March: UN Says Gender Inequality Has Worsened in Informal Settlements

Mar 8, 2026 | Hasht e Subh
Hasht e Subh

According to UN-Habitat, rapid urban growth, displacement, and the return of migrants from neighboring countries have worsened gender inequality in informal settlements.

UN-Habitat program reported on…

Uganda: Women Are Leading Uganda’s Environmental Transformation - Are We Supporting Them Enough?

Mar 7, 2026 | Jeremiah Nyagah
The Independent

As Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day 2026 under the theme “Give to Gain”, we must look beyond celebration…

Liberia: Women’s Land Rights Are Not Favors, They Are Rights as NAWoLaR Officially Launched in Monrovia

Mar 6, 2026 | Francis G. Boayue
Front Page Africa

MONROVIA –The National Alliance for Women’s Land Rights (NAWoLaR) has been officially launched, signaling a unified national front to dismantle discriminatory practices that have long…

South Africa: Women Farmers in South Africa Pay the Cost of Broken Irrigation Systems – The Story of One Cooperative

Mar 5, 2026 | Khulekani T. Dlamini
The Conversation

The South African government makes a great deal of the fact that it supports women’s empowerment in agriculture.

But does it?

As an anthropologist, I’ve been engaged…

India: Supporting Women’s Leadership in Agrifood Systems in India

Mar 5, 2026 | Miranda Morgan and Meghajit Sharma Shijagurumayum
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Women are key actors in agrifood systems, playing leadership roles in agricultural cooperatives and producers’ organizations, large agribusinesses, and agrifood-related governmental and non-governmental institutions and…

Central African Republic: How Land Empowers Refugee Women and Builds Resilient Livelihoods in the Central African Republic

Mar 3, 2026 | Stella Fatime in Birao
UNHCR

At dawn, the communal field slowly comes to life in the Korsi neighbourhood of Birao in Vakaga, Central African Republic. Women arrive in small groups,…

Women From Rural, Forest, and Waterside Communities Fighting for Comprehensive and Popular Agrarian Reform

Feb 21, 2026 | La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina

Grassroots feminist women know that there can be no food sovereignty without women’s autonomy, just as there can be no social justice without land redistribution…

Peru: In Peru’s Andes, Quechua Women Turn Human-Wildcat Conflict Into Coexistence

Feb 11, 2026 | Mongabay
Mongabay

A new film, Women Secure a Future with Pumas in the Andes, examines how the fear of predators like the puma (Puma concolor), pampas cat…

Ecuador: Yachay Wasi Teaches Climate Lessons Through Indigenous Language and a Garden

Feb 2, 2026 | The Latin American Post Staff
The Latin American Post

In Ecuador, a small intercultural bilingual school called Yachay Wasi treats environmental education as a political project rooted in Indigenous languages, farming, and justice. In…