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Saraswathi 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

Saraswathi Menon
• August 10, 2015

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…