Melanne Verveer

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Melanne Verveer is director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. She was formerly US Ambassador for Global Women's Issues and worked at the center of the work of the US delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.

TOPIC: WOMEN

Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: How Equality Became a US Foreign Policy Priority

Rebecca Turkington and Melanne Verveer

• October 14, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty-five years ago this month, tens of thousands of women (and some men) gathered in Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. It was a profound moment in the history of women’s rights, convening 5,000 official delegates from nearly every country in the world and more than 30,000 …

Development, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women

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What the Pandemic Means for UN Peacekeeping Work

Melanne Verveer and Robert Nagel

• April 8, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Covid-19 poses major challenges for people and governments around the world and for the United Nations. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global cease-fire on March 23 in recognition of the pandemic’s potentially devastating effects on people in conflict-affected nations. Less noticed in the press coverage was the important point …