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- Damilola Banjo
- • July 15, 2022
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…
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 14, 2022
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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 29, 2021
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…
- Ivana Ramirez
- • March 19, 2021
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…
- Rebecca Turkington and Melanne Verveer
- • October 14, 2020
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2020
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2020
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
- Kayla Stewart
- • February 12, 2020
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
- Frank Vogl
- • December 13, 2019
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, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2019
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 4, 2019
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 17, 2019
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
- Joanne Myers
- • June 11, 2018
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,…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Migration, Women
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 19, 2018
While slavery and inhumane practices have still not been eradicated, the United Nations has done much to expose them and to help stamp them out. Its efforts continue. Early after its establishment, the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights carried…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, International Justice
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • March 14, 2018
Guatemala and Honduras were two of the nine countries that Nikki Haley invited to her “friends of the US” party in January for casting a no vote on a United Nations resolution negating the decision by President Trump to…
- Categories: General Assembly, Human Trafficking, Nikki Haley Watch
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