Gender Violence
- Opinion by Taina Bien-Aimé
- • March 13, 2024
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The United Nations working group on discrimination against women and girls published a paper last year that not only fails to address the widespread human rights violations caused by prostitution and pornography, but also advocates for policies that will endanger …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Dawn Clancy
- • March 6, 2024
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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 …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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- Opinion by Marissa Conway
- • February 19, 2024
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Britain has cut its international aid several times since 2020 and, by the government’s own admission, the well-being of women around the world has been substantially impacted. The 2021 cut to UNFPA, the UN Population Fund, is a prime example. If …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Humanitarian Aid, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Fawzia Koofi
- • February 12, 2024
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The United Nations-led meeting in Doha with the Taliban next week offers another opportunity for Afghanistan and all opposing sides in the country to come together to end the war. Any achievement, however, depends on whether all factions, including women …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Dawn Clancy
- • January 9, 2024
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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 …
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • December 19, 2023
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In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, it’s not uncommon for three women to share a hospital bed. Nor is it rare for premature babies to share incubators. This occurs in the most developed city, the capital of Kabul, and all over the …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Security Council, Women
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- Clair MacDougall
- • December 12, 2023
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- Dawn Clancy
- • December 3, 2023
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- Opinion by Akshaya Kumar
- • November 9, 2023
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The Rapid Support Forces, an independent military group with a long history of abuse in Sudan, has reached El Fasher, the only major city in the Darfur region still outside its control. Since April, the RSF have been fighting the …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, OPINIONS, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Damilola Banjo
- • October 9, 2023
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A high court in Kenya has temporarily blocked the United Nations Security Council-backed Multinational Security Support mission from going to Haiti. “That a conservatory order is hereby issued restraining the respondents from deploying police officers to Haiti or any other …
- Categories: Africa, Caribbean, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Arthur Bassas
- • September 29, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news coming out of the organization as well as promote our own articles, focusing on Armenia and Azerbaijan, the tail end of the UN General Assembly’s big week, Russia’s human …
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- Evelyn Leopold
- • August 29, 2023
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With the death of Yevgeny Prgozhin, the leader of the brutal Wagner Group, Russia seems determined to allow the mercenaries to operate in Africa, particularly in Mali and the Central African Republic. Murders, theft of resources and rape characterize the Wagner Group’s …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Opinion by Savita Pawnday and Kate Ferguson
- • August 14, 2023
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We believe that war crimes, crimes against humanity and potentially genocide are currently being deliberately perpetrated in Sudan. We urge all of those committed to the collective responsibility to protect people from these crimes to listen to populations whose lives …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • August 9, 2023
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- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
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- Arthur Bassas
- • July 25, 2023
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The United Nations Office of Counterterrorism says it is growing its offices overseas to become more efficient, but some civil society experts who follow the UN’s counterterrorism work closely remain skeptical. They contend that the new centers expand a somewhat-secretive …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Terrorism
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