Dawn Clancy

Dawn Clancy is a New York City based reporter who focuses on women's issues, international conflict and diplomacy. She holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she has written for The Washington Post and HuffPost.
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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda — An unusually blistering heat wave smothered this Caribbean island nation just as thousands of participants from across the globe — including 22 heads of state and government — attended the fourth United Nations conference …

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For more than a decade, Mohammad Ajjour helped Palestinian couples in Gaza facing infertility to achieve their dreams of parenthood. But in a single missile attack launched by an Israeli tank in December 2023, the Al Basma IVF center was …

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As the war on Gaza enters its seventh month, 35,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, warnings of genocide and famine are mounting and reports of mass graves with bodies showing signs of torture are emerging. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

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RAFAH, Egypt — Like a little boy heading home from a carnival, a child with shaggy black hair, carrying a bobbing blue balloon, walked alone on Saturday through the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Whether he …

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The United Nations said it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israeli women were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, gang rape and “sexualized torture,” across “several locations” on Oct. 7 during the attack by Hamas in southern Israel. The …

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As the United Nations marks the second year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this week, big-power politics are still blocking the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression by Russia’s top leaders for their …

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Bombs, bullets and the suffocating weight of bodies trapped under slabs of fallen concrete where houses once stood are just a few reasons the death toll in Gaza is still soaring. But recently, contaminated water paired with an overwhelmed sanitation …

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Pramila Patten, the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, is reportedly going to Israel at the end of January. She was invited by the government to visit the country more than a month ago to hear first-hand …

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fallen from major headlines — overtaken by the Israel/Hamas bloodbath in Gaza — but Ukrainian officials are shuttling across the globe to remind the world that their country is still at war and that peace …

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As the threat of aggression haunts formerly occupied Baltic states that share a border with Russia and the war in Ukraine grinds toward its grim two-year anniversary, one country is trying to increase its influence at the United Nations by …

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Sima Bahous, the head of UN Women since 2021 and a former Jordanian envoy to the United Nations, faced intensifying criticism for not declaring Hamas a terrorist group since its Oct. 7 massacre in southern Israel. CATIANNE TIJERINA/UN WOMEN …

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IDLIB, Syria — In early October, a suicide drone ripped through a graduation ceremony at a military academy in Homs, Syria, killing and injuring dozens of civilians and cadets while delivering an equally devastating blow to the psyche of the …

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Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …

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His Peace Plan Will Save Both Ukraine and the UN, Zelensky Says — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine promoted his 10-point peace formula to the United Nations Security Council, meant to end Russia’s war in his country. Among the points …

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[…] longer,” he said. In his speech, on Sept. 19, Biden straddled a range of foreign policy and global issues, including reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, reforming global financial institutions to better serve developing countries and harnessing …

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