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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 21, 2023
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This week, the United Nations restated it commitment to remain in Afghanistan despite reports to the contrary. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings,…
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 19, 2023
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Taina Bien-Aimé started speaking up for women’s rights when she was still a teenager. A daughter of two Haitians who had met and settled in New York City, she was only about 15, some childhood friends recently reminded her,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women as Changemakers
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 24, 2023
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This week, we report on Russia getting its first hint that it might someday be held accountable for its territorial assault on Ukraine. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information…
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- Damilola Banjo
- • July 15, 2022
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This week, we focus on the rising number of armed children in conflicts in Africa’s Sahel region and how fake news, misinformation and disinformation are hurting peacekeeping worldwide. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 14, 2022
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Amid mounting reports of Ukrainian children being forcibly deported to Russia during Moscow’s brutal war against the country and its culture, savvy Ukrainian technocrats are launching a tool to fight back in cyberspace. An interactive public website will soon…
- Categories: Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 29, 2021
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The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lost control over how the International Peace Institute, a New York City think tank formerly financed by Norway, spent the money, an investigation by the country’s Office of the Auditor General found. The…
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 19, 2021
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The Security Council gathers with President Biden; commercial surrogacy is legalized in New York State; Kamala Harris on women and democracy; a UN secretary-general aspirant meets with Canadian diplomats. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues…
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- Rebecca Turkington  and Melanne Verveer
- • October 14, 2020
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty-five years ago this month, tens of thousands of women (and some men) gathered in Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. It was a profound moment in the history of women’s rights,…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2020
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To keep tabs on the lives and rights of people across the world, the United Nations Human Rights Council has the help of 44 independent monitors supposedly chosen for their expertise on a range of themes, from harsh government…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2020
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This year was intended to be a celebratory time for women: the 25th anniversary of the momentous Beijing conference on women’s rights and how to advance them. It isn’t working out that way, however, as a global health crisis…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
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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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- Opinion by Frank Vogl
- • December 13, 2019
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than a year, a BBC television team went undercover at the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana, where young female students are routinely extorted by professors. They are vulnerable because they either…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2019
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The surprising controversy over women in the sex trade — tangled in issues of legality, terminology and competing feminist visions — has produced an unequivocal statement from the executive director of UN Women that the agency is not taking…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 4, 2019
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Margot Wallstrom, as Sweden’s newly appointed foreign minister, announced in 2014 that her priority would be the creation of the world’s first feminist foreign policy. The concept left some in her diplomatic corps “gasping for air,” she said. Now,…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 17, 2019
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A group of civil society organizations is warning that a growing global movement to decriminalize and rebrand prostitution as “sex work” could lead to more, not less, violence against the world’s most vulnerable women and girls. The critics are…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
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