From the Field

Women artisans from Barara village in Gujarat’s Patan district doing traditional embroidery.
Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

FROM THE FIELD: The Indian women weaving a digital web

21 February 2021
SDGs

Hundreds of thousands of Indian women are learning to market themselves and sell products online, with the support of a digital literacy project managed by the World Bank.

Sylvia Chiinda has boosted her income by farming goats.
UNDP Zambia

FROM THE FIELD: The goats helping Zambians to reach economic independence

20 February 2021
SDGs

In Zambia, where the climate crisis is making it increasingly difficult to earn a living, goat-rearing is being seen as a possible route to a better livelihood, and economic resilience.

Aicha was raped on numerous occasions after which her husband left her.
ICC-CPI/Rena Effendi

FROM THE FIELD: Life after conflict in the Central African Republic

16 February 2021
Law and Crime Prevention

Behind each case brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC), lie countless personal stories of horror, trauma and, sometimes, hope. “Life after conflict”, a photo-led series published by the ICC, shows the devastating impact that war crimes have on people’s lives.

Nastarin (left) and Sevinch took part in Technovation 2018
Rimma Mukhtarova and Sabina Baki

FROM THE FIELD: The teenage Uzbek girls using science to help their community

13 February 2021
Women

Young women in Uzbekistan are using technology to help improve the lives of those around them, challenging perceptions of the roles that women and girls play in society.

United Nations University-MERIT PhD fellows Racky Balde and Tatenda Zinyemba.
© UNU/H. Peijpers

FROM THE FIELD: Women scientists on the power of education to reach gender equality

11 February 2021
Women

Women are extremely under-represented in science, but a UN research centre in The Netherlands is trying to address the gender imbalance, by raising awareness of the leading role that women researchers play in tackling global problems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Young children in conflict-affected Bol, Chad study science at school.
UNICEF Chad/Nancy Ndal-lah

FROM THE FIELD: Teaching Chad’s scientists of the future

9 February 2021
SDGs

The study of science could have a “transformational” impact on young people living in different conflict areas across the world according to the UN’s Education Cannot Wait programme.

Candelario enjoys reading and having a good conversation. He likes to receive visitors at home and talk about politics and stories from the past.
UN Costa Rica/Danilo Mora

FROM THE FIELD: Sharing migration stories across generations in Central America

6 February 2021
Migrants and Refugees

Two migrants, one young and one old, have been sharing their experiences of migrating to a small town in Costa Rica in Central America.

Americans spent more than $17 billion on 2020 Super Bowl parties.
Unsplash/WFP

FROM THE FIELD: Chicken wings, hunger and the Super Bowl

6 February 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The amount of money spent on food and beverages to enjoy, perhaps, the United States’ most high-profile annual sporting event, adds up to more than twice the global budget of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), according to the agency.

Paul, 23, tells of how he spent his youth running from attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda.
Pete Muller for the ICC

FROM THE FIELD: Ugandan forced to commit ‘horrendous acts’ as 9-year-old child soldier

4 February 2021
Human Rights

A young man in northern Uganda has been talking about how he was abducted as a nine-year old and forced to commit horrendous acts as a child soldier for the self-styled rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. 

Ana T. Tukia, Houma Community Facilitator, in the Houma Community citrus fruit tree project orchard where mandarin and lemon trees are tended to and grown by members of the local community.
© IFAD/ Todd M. Henry

FROM THE FIELD: COVID crisis creates new wave of self-reliance for Tonga

30 January 2021
Economic Development

Although Tonga, an archipelago in the South Pacific, has so far avoided COVID-19 cases, the pandemic has hit the economy hard along with the entire region, and helped Tongans become more resilient and less reliant on expensive food imports.