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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • September 18, 2021
Vaccine-policy confusion as delegates arrive for UNGA; Gabon’s troops repatriated from a United Nations peacekeeping mission; President Macron of France won’t participate in the UN high-level debate. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Catherine Morrison
- • September 15, 2021
For more than two decades, sexual violence against women in Somalia has become more pervasive as the country has been torn by civil conflict and state collapse. However, after an alarming 80 percent increase in the number of confirmed…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 6, 2021
Sima Sami Bahous, until recently Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations since 2016, has been chosen as the next executive director of UN Women. Her appointment may be announced as soon as Tuesday, Sept. 7, according to numerous people…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 27, 2021
Fears are running high among the vulnerable women of Afghanistan — scholars, writers and other intellectuals — that they may be prime targets for retribution and abuse by the Taliban’s ideologically driven tribal misogyny. In remote Kyrgyzstan, a Muslim…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Uncategorized
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 26, 2021
REYKJAVIK — Iceland is reportedly one of the most gender-equal societies in the world, but during a visit to the country in July, it was not immediately obvious how this progress plays out in everyday life. The clearest sign…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Fiona Shukri
- • August 20, 2021
United Nations staff members in Afghanistan who work for the UN political mission there say it has been failing to protect its national personnel since the Taliban’s sudden takeover of the country on Aug. 15 and as the United…
- Fiona Shukri
- • August 18, 2021
The Taliban seized Afghanistan’s second-largest city of Kandahar just last week, marking the beginning of the quick takeover of the country. Kandahar, a city of 60,000 that borders Pakistan, is a historic center of Pashtun culture and power and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 14, 2021
As the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Sunday — and the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country — the United Nations continues to decline to say whether it is planning to evacuate its thousands of…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, UN Agencies
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 7, 2021
Noeleen Heyzer not only saved Unifem, the precursor of UN Women, from financial collapse but also turned the small grant-making agency into a powerful policy tool for boldly addressing the crushing economic and social disadvantages that silence women worldwide….
- Categories: Asia, BOOKS, Gender Violence
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 16, 2021
Receding glaciers in Iceland; the UN’s use of public-relations firms; South Sudan’s promising women’s soccer league; Lebanon’s “reversal.” 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, Security Council, This Week @UN
- Sophie Huvé and Rebecca Brubaker
- • July 13, 2021
Since 2008, the United Nations Security Council has been integrating part of the women, peace and security agenda into its sanctions regimes — albeit inconsistently and with mixed results. So far, this practice has mostly focused on protecting women…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 12, 2021
In times of extreme adversity, hope and light can come from unexpected places. In South Sudan — haunted by a war for independence, followed by a civil war and continued unrest in its short history — people can point…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Poverty, Women
- Anne Marie Goetz and Joanne Sandler
- • July 8, 2021
UN Women is looking for a new executive director. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former vice president of South Africa, is stepping down after eight years at the helm. The appointment comes as the Generation Equality Forum in Paris just ended, with…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 30, 2021
The most important day of the widely anticipated United Nations-backed Generation Equality Forum’s second session ended Wednesday night in Paris. But before the dozens of speeches were heard, a gulf emerged among people who at heart all want to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
- Ivana Ramirez
- • June 22, 2021
In 2020, during one of the worst global pandemics in recent history, killing more than three million people that year from the Covid-19 virus, nine nuclear-armed countries spent $72.6 billion on bolstering and modernizing their arsenals, at a rate…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament
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