Japan’s food tech innovations aim to boost global food security
Japan is developing high-tech farming techniques and training women farmers to help address global food shortages, reported Africanews via Euronews...
Women’s rights
South African women arm themselves due to gender violence crisis
A growing number of women in South Africa are learning how to use guns to protect themselves due to the...
Sudan: Over 2,000 pregnant women have fled el-Fasher
The United Nations has estimated that more than 2,000 pregnant women have fled el-Fasher since late October, reported by AP...
32 cases of rape documented in one week within Sudanese city
A medical organisation has recorded 32 cases of rape against girls within one week in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher,...
The invisible climate battle of Bangladesh’s Dalit women
In Bangladesh, caste and gender based discrimination is neglecting female sanitation workers into a cycle of exclusion and vulnerability even...
‘AI aunt’ app built for domestic abuse survivors in South Africa
A horrific killing in her own family inspired Leonora Tina, a South African woman, to create an AI Aunt app,...
The Zanzibar women driving the seaweed farming economy
As global demand for seaweed rises, thousands of women in Zanzibar’s women are driving a new 'blue economy', cultivating seaweed...
Women in Nairobi restoring traditional agriculture
A group of Nubian women in the slums of Kibera, Nairobi, have been turning derelict urban areas into agricultural ground,...
South Lebanese women claim war never ended
Despite the signing of a truce between Israel and the Lebanese armed group, Hezbollah, many women living in the southern...
Israeli forces razed civil infrastructure in south Lebanon
A resident of south Lebanon, who was displaced during Israel's war with Hezbollah, revealed that Israeli troops intentionally wrecked civil...
Women in south Lebanon say war never ended
Almost a year after a truce was signed between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, women living in the...
The Nairobi women reviving traditional agriculture
In the slums of Kibera in Nairobi, a group of Nubian women are turning neglected urban spaces into fertile grounds...
Syrian women speak out about torture in Assad’s prisons
Women have revealed the horrific sexual violence and torture in former Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad's prisons during the 2011-2024 Syrian...
Iraq: women “second class citizens” under status law amendment
Iraq's revision of its personal status law has limited women's rights, making them "second class citizens", according to Human Rights...
Morocco: Woman almost killed by her ex husband
A young woman in Morocco almost dies from domestic violence and rights organisations call for policy reforms. As seen in...
