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.

North Macedonia’s first National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security treated women as a homogeneous group, and failed to address categories of women who are differently impacted by conflict, insecurity, and peace-building.

El Salvador’s commitment to UN Resolution 1325 faces a crossroads: Past progress is now at risk as President Bukele’s growing militarization threatens women’s rights and equality, reviving echoes of the country’s war-torn past.

Amid rising tensions and mass displacement, Cambodia faces growing pressure to adopt a coordinated Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. This article examines the resilience of civil society organizations and ways to support effective WPS implementation.

Ukrainian women have become indispensable in national defense and resilience, reshaping gender norms and taking on critical roles. Without direct support for local women’s groups, their impact risks being undermined by structural exclusion.

In an age marked by rising authoritarianism and anti-gender backlash, feminist peace in the Western Balkans stands as both an act of resistance and a re-imagining of security itself. The Women, Peace and Security Agenda needs to be reviewed.

At CSW69, calls to fund feminist futures grew stronger amid economic injustice, fragmented advocacy, and a political declaration dodging anti-rights backlash - echoed not in plenary halls, but in sidelines, courtrooms, and coalitions demanding more.

We must band together to defend feminism, gender equality and democracy, demands Lisa Paus, Member of the German Bundestag and Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

In her laudatory speech, Viola von Cramon-Taubadel honours the different lives of the laureates and what unites them: their commitment, their convictions and their dedication to women's rights in Belarus.

Acceptance speech. Belarus is a country where women took to the streets with flowers and were thrown into prison vans. By Darya Afanasyeva

Irina Alkhovka pays tribute to earlier generations of women, such as her former university professor and founder of this award, Anne Klein. She says their resilience and courage serve as a beacon for all of us, in every era.

It is impossible to imagine a just, sustainable, and diverse future that does not include women, and especially rural women, as they are the ones leading the transformation of the agrifood system in Latin America. 

The number of farmers in Poland is declining, but fortunately there is one group in rural areas that is trying to build farms based on new principles. These are young women who embody the ideas of agroecology: diversification of production, rural cooperation and care for the environment.