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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 to …
- 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 make …
- 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 Michel. …
- Categories: Governance, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • April 29, 2021
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Rosalía 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, a …
- Categories: General Assembly, Latin America, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • April 15, 2021
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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, starting …
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Women
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • April 13, 2021
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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 Ferdinand …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 12, 2021
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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 in …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 29, 2021
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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. Beginning …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • March 24, 2021
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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. Any …
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2021
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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 United …
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 15, 2021
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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 reproductive …
- Categories: Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 1, 2021
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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 governor …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 22, 2021
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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 — on …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 31, 2021
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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 had …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 30, 2021
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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 she …
- Categories: Africa, Development, Women
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