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Kacie Candela

Kacie Candela is an assistant editor for PassBlue and a news anchor and reporter with WFUV, a public radio station in the Bronx, N.Y., where she covers the UN and other beats. Her work has won various awards from the New York State Associated Press Association, New York State Broadcasters Association, PRNDI, and the Alliance for Women in Media.

Kacie Candela

Kacie Candela is an assistant editor for PassBlue and a news anchor and reporter with WFUV, a public radio station in the Bronx, N.Y., where she covers the UN and other beats. Her work has won various awards from the New York State Associated Press Association, New York State Broadcasters Association, PRNDI, and the Alliance for Women in Media.

For Journalists Seeking Female Experts on Global Affairs, Here’s a New Source

February 25, 2019

by Kacie Candela

The scarcity of female experts that journalists can readily rely on for objective, accurate information for reporting on an international news story couldn’t be clearer: 81 percent of experts interviewed for global news stories were men, according to a 2015 study by the Global Gender Monitoring Project, which promotes gender equality in the news …

Journalists, Women

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Three Ex-UN Leaders Form a Women’s Group to Save the World

February 21, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

As multilateralism takes a beating from President Trump amid the “new world disorder,” as one European diplomat put it, three women who know the United Nations inside and out through previous top leadership jobs have originated a Group of Women Leaders for Change and Inclusion. The goal is to bring together former UN female …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women

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Women and Brexit: Their Voices Are Just Not Heard

February 20, 2019

by Rhona Scullion

NOTTINGHAM, England — It has been more than two and a half years since Britain voted to leave the European Union. As the rest of the world knows, nothing since then has gone smoothly. It’s not even clear where most voters stand on the issue today. But despite the nonstop debate, women’s voices continue …

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A Journey Into Terror and Truth: My Travels Alone in Afghanistan

February 13, 2019

by Johanna Higgs

ISHKASHIM, Afghanistan — I entered the country from the northeast, from Tajikistan, where I had been traveling for a month, researching the lives of women, as I have been doing across the world for years. From the small town of Khorog in Tajikistan, I hired a taxi to drive me to the border crossing. …

Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Authorities Find More Ways to Silence Women Human-Rights Experts

January 29, 2019

by Kacie Candela

More than two decades have passed since the United Nations General Assembly approved the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which encourages countries to protect people who fight for human rights around the world. So why has the situation deteriorated, especially for women who defend human rights? Fears of terrorism and the rise of fundamentalism …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Women

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Young, Female and Diverse: Legislatures Begin to Change to Save Democracy

January 15, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

As many political analysts see democracy weakened by introverted, xenophobic parties and autocratic leaders, a glimmer of hope is offered by a new generation of candidates and voters. This year will test that optimism in a series of important elections around the world. Changes in the composition of national legislatures were already being recorded …

Governance, Women

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How Will Women Fare as Cities Grow Dramatically? The Data Are Missing

January 13, 2019

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

Improving the lives of women is woven into each of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, markers that all 193 member states aim to reach by 2030. Goal 5 is quite specific: nothing short of gender equality. Attaining this lofty goal means being able to put one’s hands on data that have been …

Cities, Women

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Another UN Harassment Case Quietly Disappears

January 6, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

Amid a busy December, when the United Nations was focusing on important conferences on climate change and migration and year-end holidays loomed, a case of harassment that never got the traction it arguably deserved ended in a traditional UN way: it disappeared. On Dec. 14, the chairman of the International Civil Service Commission, which …

Gender-Based Violence, Secretary-General, Women

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Heather Nauert, Trump’s Nominee for UN Envoy, Faces Heated Opposition

December 12, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach and Laura E. Kirkpatrick

The nomination of Heather Nauert to succeed Nikki Haley as United States ambassador to the United Nations has quickly enraged some international women’s rights groups and a major Islamic advocacy organization based in the United States, portending a tense confirmation hearing in the US Senate for Nauert. The announcement of her nomination last week …

Human Rights, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women

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Lessons in Making a Difference for Girls in Burkina Faso

November 24, 2018

by Irwin Arieff

So many nonprofits seem to be after your money these days. Even if you are eager to give it away, you want to be convinced that a given group is the most deserving. But how can you tell when a charitable group is effective, making the best use of your donation without wasting it …

Africa, Education, Women

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‘We Do Not Ask. We Act’: A Syrian Women Activist Tells It Like It Is

November 20, 2018

by Maria Luisa Gambale and Laura E. Kirkpatrick

Mariam Jalabi, a co-founder of the Syrian Women’s Political Movement and the Syrian National Council’s representative to the United Nations, reflected on Syria’s future in a recent conversation with Jamille Bigio, senior fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy program. Jalabi’s work focuses on women’s inclusion in politics and decision-making, and …

Syria, Women

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Women’s Rights Predicted to Advance in New US Congress

November 13, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

The results of the recent United States elections raise hopes for women’s rights. At least 100 women, among them young liberals who defeated incumbent men, will hold nearly a quarter of the seats in the House of Representatives when a new Congress opens in early January. Two women are Muslim-American and two are Native …

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In Cambodia’s Single-Party Politics, Women Are Barely Seen

October 23, 2018

by Johanna Higgs

KAMPOT, Cambodia — Chan Kanha is the deputy mayor for the Cambodian People’s Party in this small port town, which sits along Cambodia’s southern coast and still retains much of its French colonial architecture. The Cambodian People’s Party, or CCP, is led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has run the country for the …

Asia, Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Abortion, Fertility and Women’s Rights: Where the UN & US Diverge

October 22, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

If it had not been for the disruption of Donald Trump’s appearances in the United Nations the last week of September, more attention might have been devoted to an international day of advocacy for safe abortion, on Sept. 28, arranged by more than 1,200 organizations. A woman’s right to choose has few more powerful …

Health and Population, US Foreign Relations, Women

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Rape in Peru: Stopping a Deadly Epidemic

September 20, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

Forty years is a long time to trek uphill, but Victoria Villanueva, the tireless leader of a campaign to raise the status of girls and women in Peru, remains undaunted. Now 83, she has been doing exactly this since 1978, the year she helped found Manuela Ramos, an organization that lobbies to reduce sexual …

Gender-Based Violence, Women

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