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GENDER EQUALITY
HUMAN TRAFFICING
WOMENS RIGHTS
GENDER VIOLENCE
- Michelle Langrand
- • March 14, 2023
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…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 9, 2023
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…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 8, 2023
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…
- Categories: Ukraine-Russia War, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 6, 2023
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • February 28, 2023
In a follow-up to our recent analysis on the status of gender parity among United Nations senior-level appointments, which found that almost half of them replaced a woman with a man, we look now at the senior leadership of…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • February 20, 2023
LAGOS — A women-focused organization is seeking to increase funding for Nigerian women who want to participate in politics. In a country with only 6.4 percent of women taking active roles in public office, the organization understands the challenges…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
- Chloé Cosson
- • February 12, 2023
My grandmother raised seven children as a housewife. After she died in 2011, my mother inherited a bag full of cassette tapes. That’s when I remembered what I had heard before: my grandmother volunteered as a radio host on…
- Categories: UN Agencies, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 6, 2023
Margot Wallstrom, who chairs the Women’s Forum on Afghanistan, is asking the United Nations Security Council to pay an urgent visit to the Taliban-controlled country. Wallstrom, who was Sweden’s foreign minister from 2014 to 2019, addressed her request…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Security Council, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 5, 2023
António Guterres has finished the first year of his second five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations. During his original term, from 2017-2022, he publicly avowed to bring gender parity to the UN. Recently, speaking on the fifth…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Women
- Kourosh Ziabari
- • December 1, 2022
The United States wants Iran kicked off the United Nations body mandated since 1946 to empower women and promote gender equality. Through a request to hold a vote in the UN’s Economic and Social Council on Dec. 14, the…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
- Nyasha Bhobo
- • October 17, 2022
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — When news that a mob of men raped eight young women last summer during a music-video production set in an abandoned mining site in Krugersdorp, Sipehle wasn’t optimistic that the culprits would be prosecuted….
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Women
- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • October 1, 2022
VIENNA — Margot Wallstrom, a former Swedish foreign minister, clinched her reputation in 2014 for boldly coining the concept of the world’s first “feminist foreign policy.” While having left active politics only five years later, in 2019, she remains…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • August 23, 2022
LAGOS — A mere 17 women were appointed or elected to parliaments, ministerial or electoral offices in the West Africa/Sahel region out of 134 available positions from December 2021 to June 2022. While the paltry figures have long raised…
- Categories: Africa, Secretary-General, Women
- Dawn Clancy
- • August 8, 2022
WARSAW, Poland — Olena’s journey begins in the smoldering shadow of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, but whether her escape to safety will end in a suburb of Warsaw, Poland, or thousands of miles away in Dublin,…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Refugees, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • June 15, 2022
Despite 100 countries enacting national plans to carry out the global women, peace and security agenda, women remain largely absent from conflict mediation and other peacemaking endeavors across the world. The agenda, cemented in a Security Council resolution approved…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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