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GENDER EQUALITY
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WOMENS RIGHTS
GENDER VIOLENCE
- Dawn Clancy
- • January 5, 2022
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After four hours of torture, Flora Igoki Terah arrived at Nairobi Women’s Hospital on Sept. 7, 2007, with smashed bones, a shaven head and clumps of human feces jammed in her throat. Months before the attack, Terah’s torturers sent…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Governance, Women
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- Catherine Morrison
- • December 6, 2021
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Gender financial bonds to support women have been sold since 2013, but they haven’t exactly taken off like wildfire. Now the Japan International Cooperation Agency is one of the first public development banks to issue a gender bond, supporting…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 30, 2021
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President Joe Biden has nominated Geeta Rao Gupta as the next ambassador at large for global women’s issues at the United States State Department. Gupta is a senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation, a nonprofit group based in…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 23, 2021
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The images are stark: In India, Hindu widows who are considered burdens by their families are being abandoned at temples on the banks of sacred rivers. In Ethiopia, homeless older women evicted by their relatives sleep on the steps…
- Categories: Women
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- Clair MacDougall
- • October 25, 2021
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Anta Guissé has spent a large part of her 20-year career defending people accused of war crimes in countries like Rwanda, Cambodia and the Central African Republic before United Nations-backed international tribunals and the International…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 28, 2021
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More than 50 former staff members of UN Women sent a pointed open letter to the new executive director of the agency, Sima Sami Bahous, an ex-Jordanian diplomat, on Sept. 28. They suggest a comprehensive agenda for her, undertaking…
- Categories: Gender Violence, UN Agencies, Women
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- Catherine Morrison
- • September 15, 2021
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For more than two decades, sexual violence against women in Somalia has become more pervasive as the country has been torn by civil conflict and state collapse. However, after an alarming 80 percent increase in the number of confirmed…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 6, 2021
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Sima Sami Bahous, until recently Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations since 2016, has been chosen as the next executive director of UN Women. Her appointment may be announced as soon as Tuesday, Sept. 7, according to numerous people…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 26, 2021
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REYKJAVIK — Iceland is reportedly one of the most gender-equal societies in the world, but during a visit to the country in July, it was not immediately obvious how this progress plays out in everyday life. The clearest sign…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2021
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The Biden administration’s budget proposals for 2022 could erase many of the constrictions on global health aid imposed during the Trump years or earlier Republican administrations. But the sweeping developments depend on what happens in the Congressional debate on federal…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Fiona Shukri
- • August 18, 2021
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The Taliban seized Afghanistan’s second-largest city of Kandahar just last week, marking the beginning of the quick takeover of the country. Kandahar, a city of 60,000 that borders Pakistan, is a historic center of Pashtun culture and power and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 28, 2021
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There was brassy military music and the thud of a 21-gun salute. But there were also the drumbeats and songs of the polar north as Mary May Simon was sworn in on July 26 as Canada’s 30th governor-general, the…
- Categories: Human Rights, Women
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- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 12, 2021
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In times of extreme adversity, hope and light can come from unexpected places. In South Sudan — haunted by a war for independence, followed by a civil war and continued unrest in its short history — people can point…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Poverty, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 30, 2021
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The most important day of the widely anticipated United Nations-backed Generation Equality Forum’s second session ended Wednesday night in Paris. But before the dozens of speeches were heard, a gulf emerged among people who at heart all want to…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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- Mikaela Conley
- • May 17, 2021
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BERLIN — In the seating snub heard round the world, the first woman president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was not offered a chair in April while meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and European Council President Charles…
- Categories: Governance, Women
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