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AvatarSaraswathi Menon

Saraswathi Menon is the former director of the Policy Division of UN Women and before that director of the UN Development Program's Evaluation Office. Menon is currently a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Group of Experts on Review of Peacebuilding Architecture. She has lectured at Madras University in India and has a Ph.D. in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.

Women’s Rights and the UN: A Long History of Ups and Downs

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The 2010 creation of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (or UN Women) represented an unusual organizational consolidation instead of the typical proliferation. It had a promising start under strong leadership but faces serious challenges with growing resistance to gender equality. Support for women’s rights has a long and checkered history … Read more

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