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- Nyasha Bhobo
- • October 17, 2022
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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
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • October 1, 2022
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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
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- Damilola Banjo
- • August 23, 2022
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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
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- Dawn Clancy
- • August 8, 2022
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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
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 15, 2022
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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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- Asila Wardak
- • June 13, 2022
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Over the last 20 years, the United States and other global powers pumped money and military aid into Afghanistan, only to see it disappear when militarism proved untenable and ineffective. Now, as Afghanistan endures a state of emergency, those…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Ellen Marshall and David Harwood
- • June 5, 2022
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Adrienne Germain, who helped shape international development and women’s rights for more than four decades, died on May 19, 2022, at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 75 years old. Her passionate advocacy on behalf of the sexual…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • May 4, 2022
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Xiomara Castro, Honduras’s first woman president, is brandishing an ambitious agenda whose top priorities include reforming the Constitution and elevating women’s rights. Yet the success of Castro, a 62-year-old former first lady, depends heavily on how well she manages…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Latin America, Migration, Women
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- Damilola Banjo
- • April 27, 2022
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CALABAR, Nigeria — In March 2020, when schools in Nigeria closed their doors to flatten the surging curve of coronavirus infection, the unintended consequence was that thousands of children and teenagers across the country became soft targets of sexual…
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- Mikaela Conley
- • March 22, 2022
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BERLIN — During her final visit to the United States last year as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel was asked about her plans for when she stepped down as her country’s leader in December.
“Maybe I will try to read something,”…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 2, 2022
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Prime Minister Kaja Kallas of Estonia, a small Baltic nation with a tragic history of living with Russia, has become a leading European voice demanding that no breathing space or second chances be given to Vladimir Putin as his…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Women
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- Mikaela Conley
- • February 14, 2022
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BERLIN — The number of countries declaring they are carrying out a feminist foreign policy is quickly increasing throughout the world, with Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Luxembourg, Libya and now Germany joining Sweden’s pioneering concept, declaring that the countries’…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 26, 2022
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At a moment past midnight on Nov. 30, the island nation of Barbados severed its last direct links to colonial Britain and became a republic to the celebratory music of brass bands and Caribbean steel drums. Queen Elizabeth II,…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 12, 2022
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For decades, amid genocidal wars and gender violence that tore apart the lives and bodies of girls and women, Denis Mukwege, facing repeated threats to his own life, worked as a medical doctor in poor, broken communities in the…
- Categories: International Justice, Uncategorized, Women
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • January 10, 2022
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VIENNA — The name Helga Schmid probably does not ring a bell beyond diplomatic circles in this very diplomatic city. Nor is the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, which Schmid leads, a household name, either….
- Categories: Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations, Women
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