Environment & Women
Women Farmers Yielding Profits and Better Futures in Rural Rwanda
I never thought I would be able to pay the school fees for all five of my children and our family’s health insurance costs as well!” exclaimed Euphrasia…
NICARAGUA: Re-Greening the Border
Ignacia Matute remembers when the hills around her home in northwestern Nicaragua were blanketed in green, and she woke to the sounds of birds and the rushing…
Women should be focus of energy expansion plans, says UN
Women should be the focus of efforts to bring access to modern energyto those who lack it, a new United Nations report has found, as bringing energy to women…
Pakistan's cities wake up to climate threats
Alerts last June from the Pakistan Meteorological Department about a fast-approaching tropical cyclone, urging the evacuation of communities along the…
Malawi farmers ease climate woes with fertiliser trees
Smallholder farmers struggling with climate change in Malawi are turning to trees to help their crops grow.
U.S. Spent $140 Million of Haiti Earthquake Aid on Controversial Food Exports
In the months following Haiti’s devastating January 2010 earthquake, the United States government spent $140 million on a food program that benefited…
Indonesian Garbage Project Helps to Save the Climate
"Finally, reliable work", says Karma as he works in the comunity garbage scheme, which is a source of local pride.
Cambodia: Women fight land grab for Phnom Penh's contested lake
Nget Chhon, 71, was surprised, but not afraid, when anti-riot police punched her in the eye and beat her over the head during a protest against forced land…
Recovery in Gaza - Garden by Garden
In Gaza organisations such as the Palestinian Agricultural Rights Committee (PARC) and the Union of Agricultural Worker Committees (UAWC) are rebuilding…
PHILIPPINES: Sanitation crisis in storm-hit Mindanao
Survivors of Tropical Storm Washi in Mindanao are in desperate need of water and sanitation facilities, say aid workers and officials.
Nigeria: Fearing the Floods - Sleeping with One Eye Open
The women of Makoko, a low-lying slum close to the Lagos Lagoon along Nigeria’s Atlantic coast, always sleep with one eye open. Many live in fear that…
Bangladesh: women, flooding and drought
Rubina Akhtar, 25, from Char Mornia village of Gangachara of Rangpur district, said: "I lost my home on the banks of the Teesta river four times over the last…
Bangladeshi Women on the Brink
Char Nongolia village is a basket case when it comes to climate change impacts such as increasing salinity, frequent cyclones, tidal surges, erratic rainfall…
Japan: Women Fight to Save Fukushima's Children
Hundreds of Japanese women have been converging on the Japanese capital demanding better relief for some 30,000 children exposed to nuclear radiation by the…
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