Women's Environment and Development Organization

The Women and Gender Stakeholder Group at UNDRR's Session 1 on the UNDRR Architecture & Sendai Framework

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As the First Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Conference in Santa Marta, Colombia wraps up, WEDO’s Sinéad Magner and Mara Dolan sit down to share a few reflections from the ground, including: ...

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This edition of Critical Conversations features an interview with Thea Riofrancos, a political scientist and researcher whose work examines resource extraction, the global lithium sector, and the p...

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Vers une justice économique et climatique féministe : Une analyse feministe des principales tendances

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Hacia la justicia económica y climática feminista: Un análisis feminista de las tendencias claves El Informe Anual de Tendencias Críticas de WEDO analiza el progreso y los desafíos para la materia...

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Published annually since 2023, this report provides a snapshot of progress and challenges in seven key areas: tax, trade, debt, corporate capture, global economic governance, feminist climate finan...

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In celebration of Women's History Month, we share this conversation between WEDO Executive Director Bridget Burns and Thais Corral, one of WEDO's visionary co-founders. Together, they dive into th...

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In celebration of Women's History Month, WEDO Executive Director Bridget Burns sat down with Thais Corral, one of our visionary co-founders. Thais’s approach to feminism, deeply grounded in commun...

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Laura Turquet from UN Women presents on the 10th edition of the UN Women's flagship report at a Gender + Environment Data Alliance (GEDA) meeting on March 3, 2026. The next UN Women report will ex...

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Presentation from Wiebke Bender and Gabriela Pimentel from the UN Climate Change Gender team, discussing the details of the Belém Gender Action Plan adopted at COP30, at a Gender + Environment Data...

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On March 17, 2016, hundreds of activists and allies joined Berta’s family in demanding justice for her murder, protection and security for her family and COPINH members, and the immediate halt to p...

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A 2025 update on the Gender + Environment Data Small Grants Program featuring the Grantees from around the globe and their work on participatory and inclusive approaches to collecting, analyzing, a...

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In this installment of the Critical Conversations series — devoted to deep, thoughtful conversations around dimensions of a gender-just transition — we spoke with Katie Swan-Nelson, a Scottish just...

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As negotiations on the renewed Gender Action Plan (GAP) intensify at COP30, advocates warn that coordinated efforts to delay, weaken, or reinterpret long-standing commitments to gender equality pos...

This event draws on the diverse membership of the Gender and Environment Data Alliance (GEDA), with a particular focus on voices from the Global South, to highlight participatory data collection pr...

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The WEDO team is headed to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to advocate for systemic, cohesive, and gender responsive climate policy decisions across the thematic negotiation items within the UNFCCC.  In

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For the latest installment of the Critical Conversations series — devoted to deep, thoughtful conversations around dimensions of a gender-just transition — we spoke with Thokozile Madonko, feminist...

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From September 18–21, 2025, in Brazil, the Guardians of the Earth gathering brought together climate defenders and activists from across Latin America to align visions, exchange strategies, and str...

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في مايو من هذا العام، اجتمعت مجموعة من المنظمات النسوية والحليفة في الرباط، المغرب، من أجل وضع استراتيجيات، وبناء روابط عالمية، وتأسيس دعوة قائمة على التحليل النسوي القادم من الجنوب العالمي، وخاصة ...

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This panel and discussion, organized by WEDO and MENAFem Movement for Economic Development and Ecological Justice, introduced the Rabat Roadmap, a concrete tool to advance collective demands of lib...

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