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WOMENS RIGHTS
WOMENS ISSUES
- Laila Lutf Al-Thawr
- • June 1, 2021
CAIRO — “They dug a hole in the ground, threw us in and shot at us randomly. I only survived because a body laid on top of me. Al Qaeda has my friends — please help me save them.”…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, WORLDVIEWS
- Sabrina White and Fred Carver
- • May 12, 2021
LONDON — On taking his oath of office in December 2016, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres listed four priorities for his new job, the first combating sexual exploitation and sexual abuse across the UN system. In contrast, Guterres’s recent…
- Categories: Gender Violence, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Susana Malcorra
- • April 22, 2021
As a woman who has worked for the United Nations in emergency and humanitarian operations, I am deeply shaken over what is occurring in the protracted conflict in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, where reports of human suffering, including growing…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 16, 2021
Afghanistan mega-peace talks in Istanbul; Russia the spoiler; could a Latin American woman lead the UN down the road or sooner? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • April 13, 2021
In 2010, Maria Victoria (Mavic) Cabrera-Balleza founded an organization to help and advocate for the rights of women and girls globally, but it was her childhood experiences that first politicized her. Martial law was declared by the dictator President…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 12, 2021
Human-rights advocates around the world are assessing how much lasting damage could still be done to universal human rights after the four-year assault from the Trump administration. Although the Trump years ended with the swearing-in of President Joe Biden…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 6, 2021
During more than a year of tracking the parameters of Covid-19, medical science has made one thing clear: the virus hits the elderly hardest. Yet their vulnerability is often taken as fate. A new international study disagrees. Prejudice, institutional…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, SDGs
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 5, 2021
When Vietnam started its term as an elected member of the United Nations Security Council in January 2020, it also had to take on the role of the monthly rotating president. Back then, it sold itself as a bridge…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Myanmar, Security Council Presidency
- Ivana Ramirez
- • April 2, 2021
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken dials the UN; Mexico’s dual-personality approach to women’s rights; a deadly French airstrike on a wedding in Mali; two new applicants for secretary-general. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 29, 2021
Mexico and France are hosting a United Nations forum that aims to accelerate the agenda laid out 26 years ago at the landmark Beijing women’s conference: securing equal rights and equal opportunities for half the population of the world….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 26, 2021
Anti-Asian violence; the closing window for a woman secretary-general; a UN expert threatened by Saudi Arabia; the UN’s humanitarian-aid agency cries out for changes. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The…
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2021
Facing a world unsettled and even shocked by what has happened to the United States in recent years and not sure what to expect of Americans now, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today in clear, reassuring terms to a…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 13, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic anniversary; digitally recruiting women to run for the United Nations’ top job; International Women’s Day, a bit of a downer. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Migration, Myanmar, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Mouna Ghanem
- • March 8, 2021
COPENHAGEN — In her book, “The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir argued that one is not born but rather becomes a woman. De Beauvoir emphasized that destiny is not a cosmic force but a human choice, a result of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 22, 2021
It was a tough and discouraging year, 2020, for women around the world as they prepare for the 12-day annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women. It begins at the United Nations — mostly virtually —…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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