Long time partner and ally, eShe, an independent digital media platform based in New Delhi, India and amplifying womens voices has once again joined forces with Ananke to celebrate its flagship Women in Literature Festival 2024. With ideas, inspiration and an intimate look at the world through the female gaze, eShe has touched the lives...
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In the spotlight: Djamila Morani
Empowering New Parents Through Technology
Palestinian women-led organisations must be at forefront in Gaza, West Bank humanitarian response
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile Memorializes Political, Historical Developments For Peace Sake
Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan sounds the alarm as unregulated CCTV encroach womens safe spaces
The World Continues to Fail Children of Gaza, Sudan
Transforming Moments of Darkness into Sparks of Defiant Joy
An Exploration of Identity, Love and Family Traditions
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Experiences of Borderland Realities
The Gargantuan AI Myth
If I were to talk about it for the next 100 years, I cannot describe the fear we live in
The Djinns Apple: Of Intrigues & Mysteries In Islamic Civilizations Golden Age
AnankeWLF Endnote: The Power to Shape the World, Every Story is Valued
AnankeWLF2024 Partners Mobilize Impact By Enabling a Collective Space
Celebrated Publisher Arpita Das to Open Ananke Women in Literature Festival 2024
AnankeWLF2024 unveils Panel on Poetry And Process
Award winning author Anam Zakaria To Share Insight on the Historicity of Erasure at AnankeWLF2024
Ananke to Host Distinguished Author Manjiri Indurkar at AnankeWLF
Publisher Naveen Kishore Joins AnankeWLF2024 to Delve into Loss and the Transformation of Mourning into Remembrance
Category: International
Catalysing a Revolutionary, Inclusive and Feminist Future for Africas Extractive Industry
As the worlds biggest mining companies of some of the worst emitters of carbon – converge in Cape Town, South Africa to deliberate multi-billion dollar mining deals, Oxfam joins progressive organisations and movements from across the world for the 2024 Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI2024), which kicked off February 5th, 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa. Oxfams...
Two mothers are killed in Gaza every hour as fighting exceeds 100 days
New York City: The Gaza crisis is impacting women and girls at unprecedented levels with loss of life and catastrophic levels of humanitarian needs. This is the main conclusion of the “Gender Alert: The Gendered Impact of the Crisis in Gaza” issued by UN Women. At least 24,620 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, about 16,000 of...
GBV, Inequality, and the Climate are inextricable crises: Oxfam
As we embark on the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Oxfam is compelled to address the upcoming 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai. There can be no doubt that the world finds itself at a pivotal moment that demands our collective action. Gender-based violence and the climate crisis are all firmly...
Women are increasingly at-risk in conflict and underrepresented in peace processes: UN report
New York City, USA: More than 600 million women and girls lived in conflict-affected countries in 2022, a 50 per cent increase since 2017. Civilians around the world need greater humanitarian aid than ever beforebut countries are instead increasing military spending, which topped USD 2.2 trillion in 2022. That is the picture painted by the...
The Crisis of Hunger in South Africa Requires Urgent Attention
October 16, 2023: Oxfam South Africa has learnt from its programmatic and advocacy work with communities in South Africa and the SADC that the pandemic and subsequent austerity measures have worsened inequality and food insecurity, catalysing an urgent need for concerted efforts to address the crisis. The pandemic has exacerbated extreme inequality and has pushed...
World Forum to Mobilize Investments for Climate, Energy, Health, Food
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will hold the World Investment Forum 2023 to rally investments for climate action, clean energy, health care, food security and other development needs. Heads of state, more than 50 government ministers, over 150 CEOs of leading companies and stock exchanges, and thousands of investment stakeholders from...
340 million females will live in extreme poverty by 2030 with continuing trends: UN Report
September 8th, 2023, (New York, USA): Despite global efforts, the world is falling short of achieving gender equality. This year’s edition of the UN Women and UN DESA Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2023, launched today, paints a worrisome picture halfway through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Gender Snapshot...
UN Women Statement on Afghanistan
It is now two years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, during which time it has imposed the most comprehensive, systematic, and unparalleled assault on the rights of women and girls. Through over 50 edicts, orders and restrictions, the Taliban have left no aspect of womens lives untouched, no freedom spared. They have created...
IWMF Selects UAE-based journalist Anjana Sankar as 2024 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow
August 2nd, 2023 (WASHINGTON, DC, USA): The International Womens Media Foundation (IWMF) today announced print journalist Anjana Sankar as the organizations 2024 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. A veteran journalist, Sankar was chosen by a selection committee from more than 160 applicants across 59 countries. In its 19th year, the fellowship awards one journalist the opportunity to study and report...