Gender-Based Violence

A Record Year of Death and Demonization for Journalism Globally

December 23, 2018

After the savage murder of Jamal Khashoggi, major organizations monitoring the freedom and safety of journalists worldwide are reporting, albeit coincidentally, that 2018 has been an exceptionally dangerous year everywhere. The deaths of journalists have risen sharply, to 53 from 47 in 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists announced on Dec. 19. “The recent …

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UN Sanctions for Sexual Violence in Libya Approved, but Russia Resisted

November 11, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

A decision by the United Nations Security Council to add sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence should have gone smoothly. The proposal, led by the Netherlands and Sweden, was meant to deter such violence in conflict zones and other hot spots. Weeks earlier, diplomats turned out in hordes to mark the 18th anniversary of a …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

In Cambodia’s Single-Party Politics, Women Are Barely Seen

October 23, 2018

by Johanna Higgs

KAMPOT, Cambodia — Chan Kanha is the deputy mayor for the Cambodian People’s Party in this small port town, which sits along Cambodia’s southern coast and still retains much of its French colonial architecture. The Cambodian People’s Party, or CCP, is led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has run the country for the …

Asia, Gender-Based Violence, Women

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The UK Flip-Flops on Gender Wording in UN Disarmament Discussions

October 15, 2018

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

Negotiations in the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee, which concentrates on disarmament, caused a Twitter row late last week after wording on gender stirred up strong feelings between powerful nongovernmental organizations and Britain, surprising other countries as well. The committee’s informal consultations, as they are technically called, are currently focusing on updating an …

Gender-Based Violence, Nuclear Disarmament

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BOOKS

Mexico City, 1975: When the Year of the Woman Was Born

October 13, 2018

by Ellen Chesler

From 1975 to 1995, the United Nations sponsored four international conferences on women that produced wildly optimistic blueprints for concrete gains. Some people dismiss these forums and the programs for action that they generated as lacking strategies to carry them out. Others insist that the conferences raised awareness, shaped aspirations, fostered activism and, in …

BOOKS, Development, Gender-Based Violence

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South Asian Health Care’s Dismal World Ranking

October 12, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

South Asia, a vast region stretching from Bangladesh to Afghanistan, has produced and exported respected medical professionals, research findings and innovations with universal reach. The poor record in domestic health care in almost every one of the seven countries in the region is a different story. The British medical journal The Lancet reopened discussion …

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WORLDVIEWS

Six Steps to End Sexual Violence in War

October 11, 2018

by Melanne Verveer and Zainab Bangura

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad, a human-rights activist from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, and to Denis Mukwege, a Congolese physician, for their fight against sexual violence as a weapon of war. On the one-year anniversary of the reporting that sparked the #MeToo movement, the committee’s recognition …

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Rape in Peru: Stopping a Deadly Epidemic

September 20, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

Forty years is a long time to trek uphill, but Victoria Villanueva, the tireless leader of a campaign to raise the status of girls and women in Peru, remains undaunted. Now 83, she has been doing exactly this since 1978, the year she helped found Manuela Ramos, an organization that lobbies to reduce sexual …

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Hungary Forbids Gender Studies, Enraging Academics

August 14, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

In the doldrums of a European summer, when many universities are mostly closed or short-staffed, the populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban sent a directive to higher-education institutions on Aug. 9 forbidding the teaching of gender studies. Hungarian academicians, faculties outside the country as well as civil society organizations reacted quickly, calling …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Women

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WORLDVIEWS

No Justice for Yazidi Women Yet: Why Not?

August 10, 2018

by Akila Radhakrishnan

It has been four years since ISIS launched its genocidal assault on the Yazidi community in the Middle East. ISIS fighters have faced terrorism charges in Iraq and abroad, yet not a single ISIS fighter has been prosecuted for, much less convicted of, genocide. For the Yazidis, justice remains out of reach. In light …

Gender-Based Violence, International Justice, WORLDVIEWS

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WORLDVIEWS

Violence Against Women Worsens by the Day in the Congo

July 26, 2018

by Justine Masika Bihamba

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been placed on the United Nations Security Council agenda for several decades, in one form or another through various peacekeeping missions. The Council regularly meets on the status of the Congo, with the most recent session occurring on July 26, 2018, concentrating on progress toward scheduled presidential and …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Backing Up Women With Facts and Figures

July 16, 2018

by Sarah Friedmann

In 2001, a pair of academics at Brigham Young University in Utah aimed to identify data linking the status of women to the security and behavior of countries. Seventeen years later, what began as a single article has evolved into a vital, comprehensive global database, offering insights into women’s lives in 176 countries. Meet the …

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UN to Rohingya: You Can’t Go Home Safely Any Time Soon

July 15, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

Among refugee advocates there has been a growing concern that recent agreements among regional governments and the United Nations on a framework for mitigating the Rohingya crisis could prompt at least some of the million-plus people who have fled the deadly military pogrom in Myanmar to consider risking a return to try to rebuild …

Asia, Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Refugees

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WORLDVIEWS

The UN’s Emphasis on Prevention Could Use Lessons From the Case of Guinea

June 18, 2018

by Gustavo Macedo

Historically neglected, gender-based violence is now becoming broadly recognized as a legitimate and urgent agenda item among the United Nations member nations, notably in the UN’s most powerful forum, the Security Council. But the future of the agenda is uncertain, as priorities remain unclear and inadequate methods for preventing sexual violence against women keep …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Responsibility to Protect, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Nigerian Women in African Migration, Vulnerable and Abused

June 11, 2018

by Joanne Myers

Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist based in Rome, covering the large refugee migrations from the Middle East and Africa since 2011, often with an emphasis on women. She has recently written a book, “Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast,” zeroing in on a huge increase in the …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Human Trafficking, Migration, Women

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Gender-Based Violence

A Record Year of Death and Demonization for Journalism Globally

UN Sanctions for Sexual Violence in Libya Approved, but Russia Resisted

In Cambodia’s Single-Party Politics, Women Are Barely Seen

The UK Flip-Flops on Gender Wording in UN Disarmament Discussions

Mexico City, 1975: When the Year of the Woman Was Born

South Asian Health Care’s Dismal World Ranking

Six Steps to End Sexual Violence in War

Rape in Peru: Stopping a Deadly Epidemic

Hungary Forbids Gender Studies, Enraging Academics

No Justice for Yazidi Women Yet: Why Not?

Violence Against Women Worsens by the Day in the Congo

Backing Up Women With Facts and Figures

UN to Rohingya: You Can’t Go Home Safely Any Time Soon

The UN’s Emphasis on Prevention Could Use Lessons From the Case of Guinea

Nigerian Women in African Migration, Vulnerable and Abused

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