Deadly Heat Worldwide Prompts $300 Million for Climate Health Research at COP30 By Simon Jessop, Lais Morais and Anna Portella Philanthropies put $300 million into health-related research Brazil launches plan for climate-related health policy Experts warn climate change is worsening health indicators worldwide BELEM, Brazil, Nov . Learn More
Women’s Leadership & Political Participation
Facts & Figures: Women’s Leadership & Political Participation Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, data show that women are underrepresented at all levels of decision-making worldwide and that achieving gender parity in . Learn More
Women in Black: Silent Vigils Against War, for Peace
About Women in Black Who are Women in Black? Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. As women experiencing these things in different ways in different regions of the world, we support each other’s movements. An important focus . Learn More
Devaki Jain – Legendary Feminist India Economist, Author
Devaki Jain - Legendary Feminist India Economist, Author By Neha Kirpal Born in 1933, Devaki Jain was a ‘sport’ in the true sense – game for anything as a child, however unusual or risky. In The Brass Notebook (Speaking Tiger, 2020), the feminist economist and academician has sportingly put down a no-holds-barred, intimate and political . Learn More
Pakistan – Honor Killings – Graveyard for Victims +
Pakistan: Inside a Graveyard for Victims of 'Honor Killings' In Pakistan, hundreds of women are killed every year after being accused of "dishonoring" their families. DW joined a Pakistani women's rights campaigner to visit a graveyard in Sindh province where victims are buried. Fattu Shah is a remote village in the north of Pakistan's Sindh . Learn More
Aid Cuts Shutdown or Suspend One in Three Women’s Anti-Violence Programmes
Aid Cuts Shutdown or Suspend One in Three Women’s Anti-Violence Programmes 27 October 2025 . Funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organisations working to end violence against women and girls, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Monday. A new UN Women report, At Risk and Underfunded, based on a global survey of 428 women’s . Learn More
Sudan Women Call for Peace + UN Rights Chief Warns ‘Abominable Atrocities’ Likely Continue in Sudan’s El Fasher
Does the world have the courage to stand with Sudanese women in their call for peace? UN Rights Chief Warns Atrocities Likely to Continue in Sudan’s El Fasher 7 November 2025 - Warnings of worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan continue, despite reports of a ceasefire deal brokered by international mediators on . Learn More
Mexico – Many Expat Women Reset Lives in Mexico City
Mexico - Many Expat Women Reset Lives in Mexico City Annie Correal and Marian Carrasquero reported this story from Mexico City. Leer en español October 30, 2025 - Three years ago, Hannah McGrath felt lower than ever before, unemployed and staying in a relationship just to help pay Los Angeles rent. “I felt very, very lost,” she . Learn More
International Trade Unions in Action to End Violence & Harassment in the World of Work – Gender
Ending violence and harassment through a gender-transformative approach has been a central pillar of the ITUC campaign for the ratification and implementation of C190.2 This campaign has been built through the inspiring work of affiliates in their campaigns, advocacy, and bargaining initiatives to create a world of work free from violence and . Learn More
The Rise of Singlehood Is Reshaping the World
November 6. 2025 - For most of human history, coupling up was not merely a norm; it was a necessity. Before reliable contraception, women could not control their fertility, and most were far too poor to raise children alone. Hence the centuries-old convention that, whereas a tragic play or saga ends in death, a happy one ends in marriage. So the . Learn More
Around 224 Million Women Still Don’t Access Family Planning
Around 224 Million Women Still Don’t Access Family Planning 4 November 2025 - Since 1990, the number of people using modern contraception methods has doubled globally but despite this, nearly 224 million women in mainly developing regions still do not use safe and effective family planning methods, according to the UN sexual and reproductive . Learn More
Women Still Largely Excluded From Peace Processes
Women Still Largely Excluded From Peace Processes Around 676 million women lived within 50 kilometres of deadly conflict last year – highest figure since . .1990s 20 October 2025 - That’s one of the key findings of the UN Secretary-General’s annual report on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) published on Monday. The report highlights the . Learn More
Nepal – Child Marriage Video +
Nepal’s Child Brides & Grooms This story was originally published on Human Rights Watch’s website to mark the launch of their report “Our time to sing and play: child marriage in Nepal”. Narendra Chamar, who is now in his early 30s, laughs these days when he speaks about his marriage. But during the actual ceremony he cried so much they . Learn More
Establishment of UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Afghanistan Answers the Call of Afghan Victims.
Establishment of UN independent investigative mechanism for Afghanistan answers the call of Afghan victims, says UN expert Establishment of independent investigative mechanism for Afghanistan answers the call of Afghan victims, says UN expert GENEVA (7 October 2025) – A UN expert today welcomed the establishment of an independent investigative . Learn More
Somalia – America’s Retreat From Aid Is Devastating Somalia’s Health System
America’s Retreat From Aid Is Devastating Somalia’s Health System Hunger and the diseases that stalk small children have surged in Somalia after the U.S. slashed its aid to the country. By Stephanie Nolen - Photographs by Brian Otieno Stephanie Nolen and Brian Otieno visited the city of Baidoa in southern Somalia and surrounding camps for . Learn More
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