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- Alex Baluku
- • January 15, 2024
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BUGHENDERA, Uganda — In this East African country, many young women’s dreams of earning a university degree and pursuing a career are being shattered because they can’t access the contraceptives they need to avoid getting pregnant before they are ready …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Women
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- Anastasiia Carrier
- • December 19, 2023
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In the Taliban’s Afghanistan, it’s not uncommon for three women to share a hospital bed. Nor is it rare for premature babies to share incubators. This occurs in the most developed city, the capital of Kabul, and all over the …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Security Council, Women
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- Clair MacDougall
- • December 12, 2023
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- Dawn Clancy
- • October 26, 2023
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Every year, women’s equal roles in peace talks are highlighted in October at the United Nations. This time, the women, peace and security agenda, as it’s known, got attention outside the UN, near the steps to its main entrance on …
- Categories: Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 11, 2023
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Only 21 of the 192 speakers participating at the annual “high level” week of the United Nations General Assembly in September were women, a far cry from the UN’s gender equality ambitions included in the Sustainable Development Goals. Some of …
- Categories: General Assembly, SDGs, Women
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- Chloé Cosson
- • October 2, 2023
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“I became a diplomat by accident,” Cambodia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sophea Eat, said. Yet her rise in the world of diplomacy is also a story of survival, hard work and resilience. Eat, 58, sat down with PassBlue at …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • August 15, 2023
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LAGOS — When Hilda Bassey broke the Guinness World Record for the longest cooking marathon by an individual, she had no real professional cooking experience. Though steeped in Nigerian food culture, she had not gone to cooking school. Her main …
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 21, 2023
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The phrase “gender apartheid” is used in a new United Nations report describing the continuing grave violations of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. The goal of using the term, the experts who wrote the report say, is …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • June 12, 2023
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — On Mother’s Day weekend in the United States, families across Buffalo were commemorating a mass shooting of exactly one year ago. Occurring at the only supermarket in the city’s Masten District, the massacre killed 10 people and …
- Categories: Cities, Human Rights, Poverty, SDGs, Women
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- Kourosh Ziabari
- • May 16, 2023
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Nationwide protests convulsing Iran triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody last September have tapered off, but as the women-led uprising recedes from the streets, a new spectacle is dominating slowly. It is unnerving the authorities once …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 10, 2023
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Lyuba Maksymovych never imagined she would be rescuing women and children amid a hot war. She also never foresaw that a war could unite her country and induce deepening respect for women there — a “big step,” she said, for …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Refugees, Ukraine-Russia War, Women
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- Michelle Langrand
- • March 14, 2023
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Iran’s crackdown on women’s rights protests that erupted in September, and the Taliban recently banning women from working in nongovernmental organizations or from attending university have served as a reminder of how fast women’s rights are sliding back in the …
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Women
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 9, 2023
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Although nobody knows exactly what a feminist foreign policy should look like, numerous countries continue to adopt the banner ever since it originated in Sweden, in 2014, when Margot Wallstrom, the foreign minister at the time, announced the pioneering concept. …
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • March 8, 2023
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Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari opposes the general perception that Islam represses women while ignoring various negative indices regarding women in his own country. “Islam was the first religion to give rights to women,” he declared in a session …
- Categories: Ukraine-Russia War, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 6, 2023
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Nordic countries may be gender progressive globally, but they quickly admit they have not figured out how to combat the wide-ranging, rampant instances of gender-based violence online. They roundly acknowledge that the problem stems from what happens in the “real …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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