Opinion / #women
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
Policy & Finance
Financing for development must account for women
Systemic inequality and financial exclusion are blocking women’s full economic participation – and costing the global economy trillions.
Policy & Finance
India’s digital divide and the consequent welfare bias
Digitalisation of government services is creating inequalities in the delivery of schemes to the marginalised.
Policy & Finance
Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
COP30 in Brazil is an opportunity to spotlight the risks facing environmentalists and to ramp up measures to better protect them.
All #women Opinion
9 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Global rollback of women's rights puts SDGs at risk
19 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it
6 May 2025
Policy & Finance
Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights
30 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Fake ‘threats’: How trans issues become a weapon
16 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
24 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Aid cuts could erase women from public life
11 December 2024
Policy & Finance
Did COP29 fail women?
23 September 2024
Carbon & Climate
Women leading the green charge
18 September 2024
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Helping women adapt to extreme heat helps us all
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Policy & Finance
India's intimate partner violence demands an all-in response
2 May 2024
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Policy & Finance
Is Southeast Asia's healthcare workforce ready for climate change?
29 April 2024
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Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks
26 March 2024
Policy & Finance
Gender discrimination in finance holds back women – and investment
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