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WEA has recently teamed up with eco-model, Josie Maran to run a campaign benefiting our work! Josie Maran Cosmetics has a product called argan oil, which is a skin oil organically grown in Morocco by a fair trade women’s cooperative. For what it’s worth, Wikipedia tells us that “All argan sold today is produced by…
Read MoreWomen in the Center of Crop Diversity & Food Security
Blog entry by Rucha Chitnis, India Program Director, who is traveling in Southern India to research women farmers’ green traditional knowledge systems for farming, seed saving and managing their natural resources. Let’s start from the very beginning. And some might say that it all began with the seeds. Seed, a symbol of fertility and…
Read MoreIndigenous Community Enterprises: Building Sustainable Futures, One Home at a Time
Zoe Levitt, Consultant for Indigenous Community Enterprises (ICE), a Women’s Earth Alliance Partner Organization March 14th was a bright, windy day in Window Rock. I waited outside the Navajo Nation Museum to meet Hazel James from Indigenous Community Enterprises (ICE) for the start of my site visit to gather photos and conduct interviews for their new…
Read MoreFlorence and Fulera bring Improved Access to Drinking Water to Ghanaian Schools
The following article was written by Beth Robertson, Research Fellow at Women’s Earth Alliance. This article was published in the Spring 2011 “A Matter of Spirit” newsletter published by Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center. To read more click here. In 2010, two powerful women leaders from Ghana—Florence Iddrisu and Fulera Mumuni—participated in a training through…
Read MoreWe are Together: Sharing observations from the 55th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women!
By Maame Yelbert-Obeng, WEA’s Africa Program Director During the first week of March, I had the opportunity to attend part of the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) organized by the United Nations at its headquarters in New York. This year’s CSW session, focusing strategically on “Gender, Education, Science and…
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