Women

What is lost, beyond their modesty, when non-sexual images of women and queer people are captured, circulated, or manipulated without their consent? 

What happens when words travel further than the power they promise? Feminist scholar and activist Anila Noor left the Women Deliver 2026 conference carrying an unexpected metaphor: a conference bag that was empty. Not as a disappointment — but as a revelation.

Inherited and intergenerational trauma produce complex effects at the individual, familial, and societal levels that can impact willingness to participate in public discourse and protest. In the Lebanese context, the mothers of Gen Z daughters have firsthand experience of high-stakes military conflict that often shape their perceptions of danger. Memories of war inform both mothers' responses to later events, such as the 2020 Beirut port explosion and the way they seek to protect their daughters from similar trauma. Daughters, in turn, inherit aspects of their mothers' trauma but nevertheless seek to engage with means of breaking cycles of violence.

CSW70 revealed debates on women’s and girls’ human rights, as well as structural contradictions within multilateral spaces. This analysis explores how feminist and anti-gender movements contest the same space and whether this contestation is worthwhile.

Feminist struggles do not end in the city: millions of women work in the fields—mostly invisible, often without rights. If you want equality, you have to consider agriculture. And that means redistribution, protection, visibility.

Women’s unpaid labor continues to prop up economies while remaining invisible in GDP. Felogene Anumo exposes how fiscal systems rely on women as shock absorbers - and argues it’s time to rewrite the economic rules that keep care undervalued and women overburdened.

Few regions illustrate the relevance of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda as clearly as the South Caucasus, where women across the region have been at the forefront of peacebuilding efforts in multiple protracted conflicts.

Led by Iya Akilah and Kemba Jaramogi, the women of Fondes Amandes blend tradition and science to restore forests, fight fires, and revive communal practices – challenging climate colonialism with grassroots power.