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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • May 4, 2022
Xiomara Castro, Honduras’s first woman president, is brandishing an ambitious agenda whose top priorities include reforming the Constitution and elevating women’s rights. Yet the success of Castro, a 62-year-old former first lady, depends heavily on how well she manages…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Latin America, Migration, Women
- Yasmine Ergas
- • March 9, 2022
Mothers appeal to mothers. Who doesn’t understand the power of women speaking to women about fear for their children? We listen as young women — parliamentarians, government ministers — who are staying to defend their country and denounce the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS
- Dawn Clancy
- • January 5, 2022
After four hours of torture, Flora Igoki Terah arrived at Nairobi Women’s Hospital on Sept. 7, 2007, with smashed bones, a shaven head and clumps of human feces jammed in her throat. Months before the attack, Terah’s torturers sent…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Governance, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 4, 2022
Norway holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council in the country’s 2021-2022 term only once — in January — so it is aiming to make the best of this moment. “We have to make sure to put our…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Security Council Presidency
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 21, 2021
Jane Holl Lute is in high demand. In 2020, on top of her two high-level United Nations jobs, the American diplomat has juggled other numerous executive roles on corporate and/or nonprofit boards, earning more than $900,000, according to public…
- Categories: Gender Violence, UN Diplomats
- Catherine Morrison
- • December 6, 2021
Gender financial bonds to support women have been sold since 2013, but they haven’t exactly taken off like wildfire. Now the Japan International Cooperation Agency is one of the first public development banks to issue a gender bond, supporting…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 26, 2021
UN envoy for Libya resigns; older women’s rights forgotten by the General Assembly; UN staff’s dependents to leave Ethiopia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Libya, This Week @UN, UN Special Envoys
- Marcia V. J. Kran and Aruna D. Narain
- • November 18, 2021
Women have a right to participate in public and political life and the work of international organizations under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or Cedaw. This right extends to membership…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Margot Wallström and Susana Malcorra
- • November 4, 2021
The Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, and the hard-won gains women have made in the country are at risk. The situation is dire for all Afghans. The country is on the brink of starvation, and in recognition…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Terrorism, WORLDVIEWS
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 22, 2021
The UN boss points to rising global military spending as a source of gendered violence; the UN’s tech envoy, mired in controversy, may be exiting; the Human Rights Council rolls out a multimillion-dollar project with the Philippines. You are…
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 18, 2021
As the International Criminal Court begins an investigation into the thousands of extrajudicial killings committed by the Philippine government during its antidrug campaign, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is partnering with the country…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, International Justice
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 6, 2021
Jessica Neuwirth, a pivotal force in promoting and supporting the rights of women and girls worldwide, was appointed to the rank of chevalier in the French Legion of Honor by the French government in a ceremony in New York…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Anna Bianca Roach
- • October 1, 2021
Where were the women at UNGA?; feminists want big action by UN Women; undersea mining may be underway. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings,…
- Categories: Climate Change, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, This Week @UN
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 28, 2021
More than 50 former staff members of UN Women sent a pointed open letter to the new executive director of the agency, Sima Sami Bahous, an ex-Jordanian diplomat, on Sept. 28. They suggest a comprehensive agenda for her, undertaking…
- Categories: Gender Violence, UN Agencies, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 22, 2021
The second day of world leaders’ speeches delivered at the United Nations General Assembly continued on Sept. 22, after the heavily reported appearance of United States President Joe Biden at the fabled rostrum in the Assembly Hall; a last-minute…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Human Rights, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
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