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Congress Passes the Global Food Security Act of 2016
By: Janice Kim, Programs + Operations Intern Last week, in a celebrated step forward, Congress passed the Global Food Security Act (GFSA) of 2016. With just the president’s signature needed now, the GFSA reaffirms the United States’ commitment to supporting global food security and nutrition. Though the newest version of the bill doesn’t create new…
Report Launch + Week of Action to end Environmental Violence!
After 2 years in the making, WEA and Native Youth Sexual Health Network are ready to launch “Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence.” This community-based report and toolkit for action exposes the devastating impacts that extractive industries like fracking and mining have on the health and…
Meet The Interns: Hola Daniela!
Originally from Colombia, Daniela is currently working on her masters degree in marketing and public relations. A self-proclaimed food lover, tech and social media geek, Daniela has been working with WEA on keeping our social media drumbeat alive. If you are looking for Latin American music to get you dancing through the day, check her…
Meet The Interns: Hey, Sanjani!
Meet our Women Crush Wednesday of the week, Sanjani! A mother of two, family service consultant, and ‘House of Cards’ fan, Sanjani joined WEA for the month of May as our Special Projects Fellow. She’s brought her years of expertise working with grassroots organizations to her time with us, and continues to have such an…
Meet the Interns: Hey, Janice!
WEA envisions a world where women are resourced and communities are thriving, and our team of incredible summer interns play a key role in making this vision come true for WEA. They’re passionate, hard-working, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to see what their energy and creativity will bring to this work and movement. So…
Nigerian Women Risk Their Health to Feed their Families
WEA is honored and proud to share that our Nigeria Project Lead, Olanike Olugboji, was recently featured in TIME Magazine, sharing an important issue that’s at the heart of our collaborative WISE Women’s Clean Cookstoves Project. “Over 98,000 Nigerian women die annually from use of firewood. If a woman cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner, it…
Strengthening the resilience of West Bengali farmers
Soma is from West Bengal, a state that boasts extraordinary biodiversity but is also one of the most ecologically fragile regions in the world. At high risk of seasonal flooding, and prone to cyclones, West Bengal’s extreme weather patterns threaten the food, water, and economic security of its communities, especially its farmers. Committed to improving…
Women at the Forefront of Climate Change Adaptation
The ever-changing weather patterns across the globe, but particularly in Latin America, where alternating periods of droughts and floods have gotten worse, has put particular strain on the indigenous and rural women of the region. Lack of land ownership, access to technical and social services means that those who depend on the land for their…
Guatemala Women Standing Against Environmental Violence
A woman in Lote Ocho, Guatemala are filing negligence claims (in Canada) against a Canadian mining company whose employees that forcibly removed a women from her home, raped her and then burned her home to the ground. She is joined in her suit by 10 other women from her village, who were also gang-raped on…
A Canyon Deserves a Monument for Preservation
In Utah, a tribal coalition of Ute Mountain, Uintah and Ouray Utes, Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni tribes has been formed with a singular goal: To achieve monument status from the federal government for the Allan Canyon band of Ute Mountain. They propose to name it Bears Ears National Monument. “It’s never been done, all the tribes working…