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GENDER EQUALITY
HUMAN TRAFFICING
WOMENS RIGHTS
GENDER VIOLENCE
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 28, 2021
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
- Catherine Morrison
- • September 15, 2021
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 6, 2021
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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 26, 2021
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2021
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
- Fiona Shukri
- • August 18, 2021
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 28, 2021
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
- Ivana Ramirez
- • July 12, 2021
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
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 30, 2021
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
- Mikaela Conley
- • May 17, 2021
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
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 29, 2021
RosalÃa Arteaga, a former Ecuadorean president, is planning to enter the race to be the first woman to lead the United Nations and beat the incumbent, Secretary-General António Guterres, through a “people-backed” campaign. The announcement by the Forward campaign,…
- Categories: General Assembly, Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • April 15, 2021
Six Latin American names are being circulated in regional political circles as possible candidates to become the first woman to lead the United Nations, while the current secretary-general, António Guterres, will most likely be re-elected for the upcoming five-year term,…
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Women
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • April 13, 2021
In 2010, Maria Victoria (Mavic) Cabrera-Balleza founded an organization to help and advocate for the rights of women and girls globally, but it was her childhood experiences that first politicized her. Martial law was declared by the dictator President…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 12, 2021
Human-rights advocates around the world are assessing how much lasting damage could still be done to universal human rights after the four-year assault from the Trump administration. Although the Trump years ended with the swearing-in of President Joe Biden…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 29, 2021
Mexico and France are hosting a United Nations forum that aims to accelerate the agenda laid out 26 years ago at the landmark Beijing women’s conference: securing equal rights and equal opportunities for half the population of the world….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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