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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • March 24, 2021
Unless a strong candidate backed by an influential member state comes forward soon, it looks unlikely that Secretary-General António Guterres will be denied a second term and that a woman could be elected to succeed him, starting in 2022….
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2021
Facing a world unsettled and even shocked by what has happened to the United States in recent years and not sure what to expect of Americans now, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today in clear, reassuring terms to a…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 15, 2021
In the middle of the night on April 2, 2020, buried in a 400-page state budget, a provision to make commercial surrogacy legal in New York was adopted despite a campaign against the move by leading advocates of women’s…
- Categories: Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 1, 2021
The African Union, living up to its longtime promise to improve the gender balance in its leadership, has elected the first woman as deputy chair of the organization’s operating commission. She is Monique Nsanzabaganwa, an economist who was deputy…
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 22, 2021
It was a tough and discouraging year, 2020, for women around the world as they prepare for the 12-day annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women. It begins at the United Nations — mostly virtually —…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 31, 2021
Fulfilling promises that he made in his 2020 election campaign, President Joe Biden restored United States contributions to the United Nations Population Fund on Jan. 28. Through another executive order, he also overturned crippling US aid restrictions worldwide that…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 30, 2021
Margaret C. Snyder, the founding director of Unifem, now folded into UN Women, died on Jan. 26, 2021, after a brief illness while staying in Syracuse, N.Y., near her relatives and the city where she was born. “Peg,” as…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 27, 2021
The widely shared hopes in 2016 that a woman could finally be elected secretary-general of the United Nations at the end of Ban Ki-moon’s two terms were crushed when the big powers chose a man from a large field…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 4, 2021
In the early afternoon of May 13, 2020, Joana Mamombe, a member of parliament in Zimbabwe, was seized by security officers after she participated in a pop-up protest, demanding aid for the poor during the Covid pandemic. She and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 31, 2020
How bad was 2020? So awful that Match.com made a commercial in which a woman named 2020 falls in love with the Devil and they live happily ever after. As annoying as it is that 2020 is portrayed as…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Clair MacDougall
- • November 19, 2020
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Monique Yéli Kam’s war room is not a typical campaign headquarters for a national presidential candidate. A dusty white marquis stands next to stacked blue chairs fanning out to a balcony that leads to a…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 10, 2020
When it comes to power and influence in the United Nations system, the president of the General Assembly has little control beyond a procedural role in managing an often-fractious body of member nations, now numbering 193, each with policies…
- Categories: Gender Violence, General Assembly, Women
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • November 8, 2020
From a young age, Zahra Mirzaei, 32, decided to become a midwife after she encountered a kind doctor who encouraged her to pursue studies in the field. Observing the role that midwives played in her country — Afghanistan —…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Rebecca Turkington and Melanne Verveer
- • October 14, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty-five years ago this month, tens of thousands of women (and some men) gathered in Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. It was a profound moment in the history of women’s rights,…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2020
In a year of anniversaries at the United Nations, one stands out of special interest to women in peacekeeping and humanitarian work in conflict zones and other arenas of crisis where civilian rights are trampled on and families and…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
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