Women

Deconstructing Power: The Global Prevalence of Gender Violence

May 19, 2018

In scriptures, poetry, constitutions and leaders’ pledges to protect all members of the state, women are often listed with children or others rendered “vulnerable” by circumstance. The woman citizen is imagined as less adult. Is it possible that vocabularies that consider women as objects make a quiet argument that the assault on our person …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Why Do You Treat Us Like This?, Iranian Women Challenge Their Government

April 20, 2018

by Johanna Higgs

ZAHEDAN, Iran — “They give all of the rights to men,” said Neda, a young woman living in Zahedan, a border city near Afghanistan and Pakistan, who did not want to reveal her last name. “You can never make your own decisions. Many women need permission from a man in their family to leave …

Gender-Based Violence, Middle East, Women

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A Taste of Running for Political Office Has Left This UN Retiree Ready for More

April 10, 2018

by Kacie Candela

ORANGE, Conn. — Margaret Novicki is a 22-year veteran of the United Nations, having served in various regions in Africa and as the director of strategic communications at UN headquarters in New York. Upon her retirement in 2017 at age 62 from an eventful, complicated career at the UN, Novicki, an American, ran as …

Africa, UN Careers, Women

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US Congress Strikes Back at Trump’s Goals to Curtail Family Planning

March 25, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

In a rare act of legislative sabotage, the Trump administration’s plan to starve international family planning of funds has been killed for now as committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate slipped hundreds of millions of dollars to support reproductive health programs into a 2,232-page, $1.3 trillion US budget …

Gender-Based Violence, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women

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In Colombia, Female Ex-Combatants Still Face Risk of Stigmatization

March 13, 2018

by Adriana Erthal Abdenur

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and the resulting agenda on women, peace and security has called for more inclusive peace processes, stressing that women’s specific needs and experiences should be taken into account during and after peace negotiations. Yet the role of female ex-combatants in peace processes remains understudied and somewhat neglected in …

Disarmament, Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Women Descend on the UN, Riding on the Heels of #TimesUp

March 12, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

As women across the world battle systemic harassment and worse abuses for merely being female, the United Nations has opened its annual gathering of women in one of its biggest conferences of the year. This time, the 12-day meeting focuses on the status of rural women, but since it follows closely on the heels …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Women

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Thank You, UN, for Protecting the Rights of Women

February 28, 2018

by Bertrand Ramcharan

There is still a long way to go to uphold the rights of women worldwide, and UN Women, a department of the Secretariat, is now carrying the torch in this struggle. It builds on the efforts of the UN human-rights program going back to the earliest days of the organization. For International Women’s Day, …

Human Rights, International Justice, Women

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The ‘Incredible Courage’ of Asma Jahangir, Pakistan’s Human-Rights Advocate

February 17, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

Only a few days before Pakistan’s most famous human-rights advocate, Asma Jahangir, was felled by a heart attack on Feb. 11, she was speaking out in support of a group of ethnic Pashtuns who had marched across the country from their homes along the Afghanistan border to protest military brutality. A Pashtun boy had …

Asia, Human Rights, Women

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As Sweden and Canada Push a ‘Feminist Foreign Policy,’ Others Resist the Label

February 12, 2018

by Stéphanie Fillion

After years of civil war, Somalia is beginning to build democratic institutions with support from the West, even as horrific violence repeatedly strikes the capital, Mogadishu. Help from foreign countries and regional groups — such as the European Union, Italy and the United States — was provided in Somalia’s 2016 election, where electoral processes …

Caribbean, Governance, Latin America, Women

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US Visa Rules Can Create Heartbreak for Women

February 4, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

Imagine an accomplished young woman — we can call her Amrita — who has a caring husband and maybe a child or two. He is a highly skilled professional in his field with a doctorate or even postdoctorate qualifications. She has the same level of achievement or possibly higher. He has been offered a …

Asia, Gender-Based Violence, Women

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At Sciences Po in France, a Lack of Gender Studies Rankles Some Students

January 25, 2018

by Elizabeth Walsh

PARIS — Women outnumber men in international affairs graduate programs across the world and are increasingly demanding that curriculums reflect feminist thinking and include gender mainstreaming. Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in New York, Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs and the London School of Economics are three of …

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Blessed Are the Peace-Builders in Ukraine: Female Activists Repair a Broken Country

January 21, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

KYIV, Ukraine — There is no escaping that Ukraine is at war — although it is not totally apparent who the Ukrainian military and volunteer vigilantes are fighting in the east: Russian “separatists” or Russians themselves? No one can definitively say who is who or decide up from down, one of the living puzzles …

Gender-Based Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, Women

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Michelle Bachelet, Outgoing President of Chile, Gets a WHO Post

January 19, 2018

by Chris Gelardi

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has agreed to chair the board of the World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health after she finishes her government role on March 11. The announcement came after a Jan. 10 meeting at the presidential palace in Santiago, during which the WHO leadership offered Bachelet the position. …

Health and Population, Women

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Sexual Harassment at the UN Is Alive and Persistent

December 22, 2017

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

As its people of the year, Time magazine recently named the Silence Breakers — people who have spoken against sexual harassment and launched the hashtag #MeToo into an international phenomenon with more than seven million hits on social media. Just before the announcement, more than 230 women who work in national security for the …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, Women

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From the Kingdom of Women, With Love

December 5, 2017

by Johanna Higgs

LIOUSHUI, China — Known as the Kingdom of Women, the Mosuo are a small ethnic minority group living in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, predominantly around Lugu Lake. The Mosuo have become somewhat famous for their matriarchal society, where the family name and other legalities are passed to the next generation through the women, and …

Asia, Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Women

Deconstructing Power: The Global Prevalence of Gender Violence

Why Do You Treat Us Like This?, Iranian Women Challenge Their Government

A Taste of Running for Political Office Has Left This UN Retiree Ready for More

US Congress Strikes Back at Trump’s Goals to Curtail Family Planning

In Colombia, Female Ex-Combatants Still Face Risk of Stigmatization

Women Descend on the UN, Riding on the Heels of #TimesUp

Thank You, UN, for Protecting the Rights of Women

The ‘Incredible Courage’ of Asma Jahangir, Pakistan’s Human-Rights Advocate

As Sweden and Canada Push a ‘Feminist Foreign Policy,’ Others Resist the Label

US Visa Rules Can Create Heartbreak for Women

At Sciences Po in France, a Lack of Gender Studies Rankles Some Students

Blessed Are the Peace-Builders in Ukraine: Female Activists Repair a Broken Country

Michelle Bachelet, Outgoing President of Chile, Gets a WHO Post

Sexual Harassment at the UN Is Alive and Persistent

From the Kingdom of Women, With Love

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