International News
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Women Farmers Demonstrate Agriculture Can Recover after War
Dec 19, 2016
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Sarina Locke, ABC News
An aid project in Afghanistan helps enterprising women to multiply grain seeds for cropping, share vegetable seeds and breed better goats. So far the work…
Sudan: Sudan Pressures OVL for Higher Tax, Sits on Extension
Dec 6, 2016
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Time of India
Sudan is playing hardball with India on the issue of extending the licence for an oilfield with a view to extracting additional revenue, even though…
Land: Rural Women Demand Increased Access to Land Rights
Dec 6, 2016
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Gbatemah Senah, Bush Chicken
Amid the celebration of the UN Women-led 16 Days of Activism, a group representing rural women in Liberia has presented a list of demands for…
Colombia: Plan Colombia Casts Shadow on Indigenous Rights as Peace Nears
Oct 12, 2016
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teleSUR
Marginalized Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Colombia have been among the most battered by more than five decades of internal armed conflict between the military,…
Liberia: Concessions Violate Women’s Rights
Oct 12, 2016
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Daily Observer
A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women’s Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International…
Colombia: Legal Threats, Not War, Top Commodity Producers' Concerns in Colombia
Oct 11, 2016
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Julia Symmes Cobb and Nelson Bocanegra, Reuters
Gold mining companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars but not extracted a gram. Palm farmers are told their land belongs to someone else.…
Afghanistan: Afghan Women to Be Given 'Fair Share' in Property Rights Drive - Land Authority
Oct 11, 2016
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Zabihullah Noori, Reuters
Afghan women should benefit from a project to issue property titles to homeowners in Kabul, where more than two-thirds of the houses have no formal…
Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Says All Will Lose in Any South China Sea War
Aug 31, 2016
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Agence France-Presse
Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang warned on Tuesday there would be no winners in any armed conflict sparked by territorial disputes in the South China…
Afghanistan: In Afghanistan’s Farm Belt, Women Lead Unions and Find New Status
Aug 31, 2016
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Mujib Mashal, New York Times
In this lush farm belt deep in central Afghanistan, women have been the organizing force behind a new wave of small village farm unions. That…
Colombia: UN Praises Colombia and FARC's Agreement on Women
Jul 25, 2016
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BBC News
The UN has welcomed an agreement between the Colombian government and FARC rebels giving specific guarantees to women as part of a peace accord. Both…
Climate Change: The GOP is Leading an Effort to Block the Military from Planning for Climate Change
Jul 24, 2016
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Adam Wernick, PRI
In June, House Republicans attached an amendment to the defense authorization bill that stopped the Defense Department from spending money to plan for climate change. The…
The Top-Secret Cold War Plan to Keep Soviet Hands off Middle Eastern Oil
Jun 23, 2016
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Steve Everly, Politico
On a cool summer day in London in 1951, an American CIA officer told three British oil executives about a top-secret U.S. government plan. The…
Afghanistan: Afghan Women Take on Farming
Jun 23, 2016
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Arzo Mohammadai, Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Agriculture, a central pillar of Afghanistan’s economy, has traditionally been dominated by men. Women are sometimes recruited to work the fields or tend livestock, but…
Phillippines/United States/South China Sea: U.S. Conducts Joint Patrols with Philippines in South China Sea
Apr 14, 2016
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Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press
In a military buildup certain to inflame tensions with China, the United States said Thursday it will send troops and combat aircraft to the Philippines…
Iraq: Marsh Loss Shatters Lifestyle of Iraq’s Ma’dan Women
Apr 14, 2016
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Rasha Dewedar, SciDev.Net
Iraq is losing crucial knowledge about water management as marshland depletion is altering the lifestyle of local women, a paper has warned. The indigenous people…
DRC: New Scheme Seeks to Improve Tracking of DRC Minerals
Sep 9, 2015
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Nick Long, Voice of America
The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is renowned for its mineral wealth, but much of that wealth is untapped, partly because of fears that mineral…
Liberia: Women Petition Senate to Pass Land Rights Bill
Sep 9, 2015
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Liberia News Agency, Richard Stephens
A group of women under the banner of the Women NGO Network Tuesday converged on the Capitol Building to petition the Liberian Senate to speedily…
Timor-Leste: Timor-Leste Welcomes Australia's Return of Spying Documents Seized by Asio
May 3, 2015
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Daniel Hurst, The Guardian
The Timor-Leste government has praised a decision by the Australian government to return documents about past spying that were at the centre of raids by…
Myanmar: Moving the Earth: Women Take On Land Aggressors
May 3, 2015
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Sonya Carassik Ratty, Democratic Voice of Burma
From the platinum reserves in eastern Shan State to the Shwe gas pipeline in south-western Arakan, much of Burma’s wealth lies in the earth. As…
Can Women Make the World More Peaceful?
Aug 11, 2014
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Laurel Stone
Do women hold the key to a peaceful society? Much is known about the victimisation of women through rape, trafficking, and early marriages, but much…
Conflict Minerals: How to Make the Most of Africa’s Business Boom
Aug 9, 2014
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Sara Murphy, The Motley Fool
Following the close of this week's unprecedented U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the business community's eyes are trained on Africa. Perhaps not since colonization has the West…
World: Official Urges Greater Action To Combat Sexual Violence
Apr 26, 2014
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The Daily Times of Nigeria
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura has said in spite of unprecedented political momentum to fight rape in war zones.
It says…
China/Japan: Pacific Rim Deal Could Reduce Chance of Unintended Conflict in Contested Seas
Apr 23, 2014
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Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley, The New York Times
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A naval code of conduct approved by more than 20 nations around the Pacific, including China, Japan and the United States, could…
On International Day, Ban calls for protection of natural resources in war-torn countries
Nov 6, 2013
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United Nations
World: Empowering Women in Natural Resource Management Critical for Lasting Peace in War-Torn Countries, Says UN Report
Nov 6, 2013
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UNEP
Geneva /New York/Nairobi, 6 November 2013 - Ensuring that women have better access to and control of natural resources such as land, water, forests and…
DRC: Developing Clean Energy Potential in the DRC
Africa Oil & Power
As global energy focus shifts towards renewables, in line with the Paris Climate Agreement, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is gaining traction as an…
Afghanistan: Kabul City: On the Brink of Water Shortage Crisis
Daily Outlook Afghanistan
The alarms and concerns over the water shortage crisis are repeatedly expressed or raised in Afghanistan, especially in Kabul city. Last week, the office of…
Pakistan: Action Against Hunger Is Helping Women in Pakistan Grow Saline Tolerant Crops
Gabby Lozano, Food Tank
Action Against Hunger (ACF), an international humanitarian organization, is helping women in Sindh, Pakistan become self-sufficient by teaching them how to grow saline tolerant crops. Climate…
2022 Women Building Peace Award Finalists
USIP
The Women Building Peace Award is given each year to a woman peacebuilder who has made a major contribution to preventing conflict, combatting violence and…
Ukraine: The International Response Should Follow the Principle of ‘Nothing about Us, Without Us"
CIVICUS
IPS
CIVICUS speaks with Ukrainian gender rights activist Maryna Rudenko about the gendered impacts of the war in Ukraine and the importance of including women in…