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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.

OPINIONS

Women and Civil Society Must Play Vital Roles in Ukraine’s Postwar Recovery

Opinion by Melanne Verveer and Jess Keller
• May 30, 2023

When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Natalia Karbowska sprang into action. She has since been working in overdrive to provide funding and humanitarian assistance to thousands of Ukrainian women whose lives have been destroyed by the Russian invasion,…

Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, Ukraine-Russia War

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,…

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

COVID-19

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…