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GENDER EQUALITY
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WOMENS RIGHTS
WOMENS ISSUES
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 17, 2023
This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, ICC, Myanmar, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 10, 2023
Just because it was International Women’s Day on March 8, we focus on women all week! Why not? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is culled from UN press…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 9, 2023
Although nobody knows exactly what a feminist foreign policy should look like, numerous countries continue to adopt the banner ever since it originated in Sweden, in 2014, when Margot Wallstrom, the foreign minister at the time, announced the pioneering…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Habiba Sarabi
- • March 7, 2023
Today is International Women’s Day, a celebration of the achievements of women. It is also another day of Afghan women and girls living under Taliban rule, fearful of which freedoms will be stripped from them next. For decades, women’s…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 6, 2023
Nordic countries may be gender progressive globally, but they quickly admit they have not figured out how to combat the wide-ranging, rampant instances of gender-based violence online. They roundly acknowledge that the problem stems from what happens in the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Houry Geudelekian
- • March 5, 2023
As I reflect on my final year chairing the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, which organizes the forum parallel to the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, I wonder, How did I get here?…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 20, 2023
This week, we focus on the crises in Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the United Nations intensifies peacekeeping and humanitarian remediation in the first weeks of 2023. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 15, 2023
Ukraine is dropping its “peace formula summit” that it wanted to hold at the United Nations to mark the yearlong anniversary, on Feb. 24, of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, a Western source familiar with the decision told PassBlue….
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 6, 2023
Margot Wallstrom, who chairs the Women’s Forum on Afghanistan, is asking the United Nations Security Council to pay an urgent visit to the Taliban-controlled country. Wallstrom, who was Sweden’s foreign minister from 2014 to 2019, addressed her request…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, Women
- Irwin Arieff
- • December 19, 2022
Early and often during his 2016 run for the presidency, Donald Trump vowed to pull Washington out of the Iran nuclear agreement the moment he arrived at the White House. The pact, brokered the year before by Barack Obama,…
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • December 1, 2022
The United States wants Iran kicked off the United Nations body mandated since 1946 to empower women and promote gender equality. Through a request to hold a vote in the UN’s Economic and Social Council on Dec. 14, the…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 25, 2022
This week, we focus on climate commitments made at the just-concluded COP27 as well as the UN Environment Program honoring activists. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Damilola Banjo
- • November 11, 2022
This week, world leaders are gathering in Egypt to renew their commitments to sustainable climate conditions. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Climate Change, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • November 9, 2022
Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations stunned journalists recently when he read a contentious statement to them in response to an informal Security Council meeting on the current protests in Iran. The envoy delivered his remarks to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, UN Diplomats, US Foreign Relations
- Susana Malcorra
- • November 7, 2022
The deterioration of women’s rights across the world is enabling more gender-based violence. Even those who strive to defend and even expand their privileges at the exclusion of others recognize that half the global population suffers inequalities and injustice….
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS