COP27

Women are leading talks on COP27’s toughest topic: Climate reparations

Nearly all of the key players in negotiations on loss and damage are women.  Men usually outnumber and outrank women negotiators in climate talks, except when it comes to global warming’s thorniest diplomatic issue this year — reparations for climate disasters. The issue of polluting nations paying vulnerable countries is handed over to women, who got…

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Rayyanah Barnawi

Rayyanah Barnawi, Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut launched into space on a SpaceX rocket

It’s the latest move by the oil-rich Gulf kingdom, where women only gained the right to drive a few years ago, to revamp its ultraconservative image. SpaceX has launched the first female Saudi Arabian astronaut into space on a private mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the…

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