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Global: Dismantling Barriers to Women's Leadership in Building Peace

Jun 25, 2025 | UN OHCHR
UN OHCHR

“Peace needs to be inclusive and requires the participation of every citizen of society, not only half of it. Neglecting women from peacebuilding efforts misses…

Call for Abstracts: Symposium on the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus

Jun 24, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and University of Ottawa

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for presentations to be delivered at a one-day…

Cyprus: The Learning Refuge: How Women-Led Community Efforts Help Refugees Resettle in Cyprus

Jun 23, 2025 | Suzan Ilcan and Seçil Daǧtaș
The Conversation

Since 2015, the Republic of Cyprus (ROC) has seen a steady rise in migrant arrivals and asylum applications, primarily from people from Middle Eastern and African countries like Syria, the…

Brazil: The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

Jun 21, 2025 | Katie Surma
Inside Climate News

It was an audacious moment. During a recent government hearing, allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro berated Brazil’s environment and climate minister, telling Marina Silva she…

Building a Climate-Resilient Viet Nam: Strengthening Women’s Role in Agriculture and Leadership

Jun 20, 2025 | Caroline Nyamayemombe and ITO Naoki
UN Women

As one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, Viet Nam is facing an escalating climate crisis. Rising sea levels and increasingly severe disasters…

Tejiendo Autogobierno y Armonía con la Madre Tierra: Propuesta de las mujeres indígenas Iku de Colombia para la Construcción de la Paz Ambiental

Jun 18, 2025 | Yeimy Alejandra Izquierdo Cujar y Natalia Jiménez Galindo

Voces de las mujeres indígenas Iku de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

Las mujeres indígenas colombianas pueden ser parte del progreso global que promueve…

Weaving Self-Governance and Harmony with Mother Earth: Proposal of Iku Indigenous Women of Colombia for Building Environmental Peace

Jun 18, 2025 | Yeimy Alejandra Izquierdo Cujar and Natalia Jiménez Galindo

Voices from the Iku Indigenous women of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.

Colombian Indigenous women can be part of the global progress advancing…

Kenya: Terms of Reference (ToR): Documentation of Women’s Stories, Photography, and Videography

Jun 13, 2025
ActionAid

ActionAid Australia supports climate resilience and women’s leadership projects through local partners. In Kenya, the GRACC project promotes gender-responsive approaches to climate change, especially in…

Syria: Research Analyst, Women’s Political Participation in Syria

Jun 11, 2025
European Institute of Peace

We are looking for a Research Analyst to support the Institute’s Conflict Justice and Reconciliation (CJR) and Gender and Peacemaking (GPM) team.
You will

Under the strategic direction of the Institute’s Conflict Justice…

Kenya: Consultant: Training on Green Transformation, Gender Mainstreaming, Climate Resilient and Sustainable Financing

Jun 10, 2025
Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust

The objective of this consultancy is to facilitate training to the staff of the selected Financial Service Providers (FSPs) on Agri-value chain, gender lens investing/gender…

Latin America: How a Network of Women in Latin America Transformed Safe, Self-Managed Abortions

Jun 8, 2025 | Marta Martínez and Liana Simstrom
WUSF

In November 1990, more than 3,000 women descended on the sleepy beach town of San Bernardo del Tuyú, Argentina, for what was becoming a legendary…

Ukraine: Project-Designing Resilience Analyses with Peace and Conflict Analysis and Gender Analysis

Jun 6, 2025
Christian Blind Mission

Christian Blind Mission (CBM) International is applying for institutional funding from BMZ - Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany. The funding instrument Transitional…

Nepal: Centring Women’s Knowledge and Leadership in Nepal’s Climate Response

Jun 5, 2025 | Manjeeta Gurung
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Indira Dhital, a local woman leader from Kavre, central Nepal, recently recited this poem at the culmination of a UN Women project focused on building…

Djibouti: Réalisation d’Une Étude de Faisabilité du Projet, Jardins Urbains et Péri-urbains pour l’Autonomisation des Femmes dans la Région de Tadjourah

Jun 5, 2025
International Organization for Migration

L’objectif général de l’étude est d’évaluer la faisabilité technique, sociale, économique et environnementale de la mise en place de jardins maraichers urbains et péri-urbains, destinés…

Securing Women’s Land Rights: A Pathway to Food Security

Jun 5, 2025 | Sunaina Kumar
Observer Research Foundation

Despite playing a central role in food systems, women lack secure land rights in more than half of all countries, posing serious implications for food…

Georgia: Consultant, Enabling Actions to Address Challenges of Environmental Migration in Georgia

Jun 3, 2025
International Organization for Migration

Support the compilation of best practices on the migration, environment, and climate change (MECC) nexus mainstreaming and implementation of a case study to assess the…

Canada: Assembly of First Nations Releases 2025 Progress Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, Highlighting Human Trafficking Crisis

Jun 3, 2025 | The Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations

(June 3, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – On the sixth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered…

Liberia: RICCE Program Manager Urges Passage of Oil Palm Development Bill to Empower Women and Communities

Jun 3, 2025 | GNNLiberia
GNNLiberia

The Program Manager of the Rural Integrated Center for Community Empowerment (RICCE), Madam Renee N. Gibson, has called for the submission and passage of the…

Colombia: Peace Has Long Been Elusive in Rural Colombia - Black Women’s Community Groups Try to Bring It Closer Each Day

Jun 3, 2025 | Tania Lizarazo
MSN

It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one guerrilla group and the government, and three years since President Gustavo Petro vowed “total…

Global Survey of Women Building Peace and Security

Jun 2, 2025 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is working to build a data set of information about the work of women peacebuilders around the world…

Sweden: OSCE Workshop Tackles Gender, Climate, Security

May 30, 2025 | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Mirage News

How gender intersects with climate-related security risks was one of the questions explored by experts and practitioners at the "Gendered Perspectives on Climate and Security:…

Cambodia: Lieutenant Colonel Sorm Leangy, a Force for Peace

May 29, 2025 | UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific

"I was the first woman from my village to become a peacekeeper,” says Lieutenant Colonel Sorm Leangy, her voice steady with pride. “At first, people…

Liberia: From Farm to Market: Digital Platform Connects Women Farmers to Buyers

May 29, 2025 | Tina Mehnpaine
Front Page Africa

When scrolling through the UN Women and Orange Foundation-supported ”Buy from Women digital platform, the faces of four Liberian women farmers appear. Fifty-six-year-old Gertrude Kpoleh,…

Why Gender-Responsive Action Must Anchor Africa’s Climate Summit 2025

May 29, 2025 | Salome Owuonda
Citizen Digital

As Africa prepares to convene in Addis Ababa for the second Africa Climate Summit (ACS) in September 2025, the continent stands at a critical intersection.

The…

Mexico: Women Who Nourish the Earth: Yuridia Hernández and the Feminine Strength in Sustainable Agriculture

May 28, 2025 | Sarah Martínez Gámiz
Cimmyt

In the lands of Oaxaca’s Mixteca, where rainfall no longer comes as it once did and the soil begins to feel the weight of years…

Call for Proposals: Path To Ottawa

May 26, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association & University of Ottawa

In the lead-up to the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding–taking place in June 2026 in Ottawa, Canada–the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and Conference partners…

Tanzania: From Burden to Opportunity: Mechanization in Rural Tanzania

May 26, 2025 | Martin Majambele, Esther Cheyo, Radegunda Kessy, Atupokile Mwakatwila, Justus Ochieng, and Maximillian Saku
Alliance Biodiversity CIAT

Beneath vast Tanzanian skies, where fields stretch like patchwork quilts of promise, a quiet revolution is taking root. It doesn’t shout—but whispers change with every…

Global: Who Are The Women Leading Peacekeeping?

May 22, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

In 1995, at the Fourth World Conference on Women, world leaders agreed to ensure that women lead and play decision-making roles in conflict resolution and peace efforts.…

Myanmar: For ALL Women and Girls: ‘Work with Us, not just for Us’, Urges Rohingya Activist

May 19, 2025 | UN Women
UN Women

Born in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Lucky Karim was only 14 when genocidal violence forced her family to flee on 25 August 2017. Over seven…

Liberia: Men, Tradition Denying Women’s Rights to Land

May 16, 2025 | Esau Farr and Harry Browne
Front Page Africa

JORPOLU CLAN, Bong County – In 2018, Liberia passed the Land Rights Act. The historic legislation grants communities and women customary ownership of ancestral land, putting an end…