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GENDER EQUALITY
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WOMENS RIGHTS
WOMENS ISSUES
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2020
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UN Women is postponing two long-planned international meetings designed to give civil society groups a leading role in advancing gender rights 25 years after a landmark 1995 Beijing conference on women. The two sessions of the Global Equality Forum that…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights
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- Joseph Chamie
- • March 31, 2020
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Normally, the numbers of males and females in a human population are about the same across all such populations. However, pregnancy interventions by couples and unhealthy lifestyles among young men have produced gender imbalances, giving rise to “missing girls”…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population
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- Samea Shanori and Fiona Shukri
- • March 25, 2020
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Afghan women’s inclusion in the current peace negotiations with the Taliban and the United States has become an international cause célèbre. But calls for participation of Afghan women without methodical, sustained and substantive engagement in a peace settlement has the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • March 6, 2020
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Nearly 700 people, many of them young adults and students, flocked to the United Nations recently to attend an all-day gathering on “War No More.” Who were they eager to see and hear? The global feminist icon Gloria Steinem…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 4, 2020
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With International Women’s Day, March 8, on the horizon, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres blasted the intractable power of patriarchy, the cause of overwhelming gender injustice and an abuse of historical proportions, in his view. “Just as slavery and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 27, 2020
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From the start, the diplomats leading the negotiations on the new political declaration for the United Nations’ women’s rights conference in March wanted to keep it short and sweet. That meant five pages maximum, one diplomat told PassBlue before…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 25, 2020
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Whether or not Donald Trump will be re-elected president on Nov. 3, a tough debate is likely to begin soon in the United States Congress over the national budget for the unpredictable year ahead. Reproductive health issues rank high…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 23, 2020
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When Reporters Without Borders recently tallied the murders of journalists across the globe in 2019, the organization found that the confirmed death toll, 49, was the lowest since 2003. That was the good news. The rest of the findings from…
- Categories: Gender Violence
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- Kayla Stewart
- • February 12, 2020
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KETE KRACHI, Ghana — To smoke a fish here, you need to first remove its skull. Then you insert a sharp knife into its stomach, slowly cutting a clean line across its belly to avoid flooding your hand with…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 4, 2020
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In the gallery of authoritarian governments undercutting the rights of women and threatening democracy around the world, five nations stand out for a special reason. Donald Trump has made the leaders of Brazil, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 26, 2020
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This year will be an urgent moment for the United Nations and its 193 member countries to renew their commitment ensuring women’s equality in all walks of life. Twenty-five years have passed since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 25, 2020
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The naming of Jonathan Moore, a senior United States Foreign Service officer, to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, signals that in the United Nations’ 75th year, the Trump administration is getting serious. The…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Akila Radhakrishnan
- • January 21, 2020
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Last month, the world was struck by an unusual image — that of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi — standing in court to defend and deny genocide. What was striking was not only what she…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Myanmar, OPINIONS
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 20, 2020
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As the countdown to this year’s main events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women has begun, UN Women has announced six themes to anchor the two Generation Equality forums to be held in May and in…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2019
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Once again, 2019 marked incredible upheaval and change across the world, just as 2018 did so universally, signaled by the continued rise in nationalism and revolts by women against repression and violence in their daily lives. Reporting on how…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
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