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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 27, 2021
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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 of …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 4, 2021
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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 two …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 31, 2020
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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 a …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Clair MacDougall
- • November 19, 2020
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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 room …
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 10, 2020
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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 of …
- Categories: Gender Violence, General Assembly, Women
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • November 8, 2020
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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 — while …
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Rebecca Turkington and Melanne Verveer
- • October 14, 2020
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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, convening …
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2020
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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 societies …
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 2, 2020
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The 25th anniversary of the landmark global action plan that was adopted to expand the equality and rights of women and girls was jinxed from the start. The celebratory event, long scheduled for March, was hastily postponed as the Covid-19 virus …
- Categories: Gender Violence, General Assembly, Women
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- Foteini Papagioti
- • September 30, 2020
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It has been a banner year for the long-overdue push to appoint women to the notoriously male-dominated leadership ranks of United Nations peacekeeping and political missions. Five out of six mission-leadership jobs in the first half of 2020 went to …
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Careers, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 29, 2020
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In the rubble of what’s left of American commitments to international organizations, one survivor is doing well. The United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, the perennial target of Republican politicians and presidents since the 1980s, is thriving. Arthur Erken, director …
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 10, 2020
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The first woman scheduled to speak at this year’s opening session of the United Nations General Assembly is 53rd on the list of about 119 heads of state — President Zuzana Caputova of Slovakia — delivering her remarks on Sept. …
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2020
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To keep tabs on the lives and rights of people across the world, the United Nations Human Rights Council has the help of 44 independent monitors supposedly chosen for their expertise on a range of themes, from harsh government abuses …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2020
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The world of diplomacy has toyed with the concept of feminist foreign policies for years, raising some support and not a few snickers from dissenters. A new campaign led by women with strong professional qualifications and global experience in more …
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Samea Shanori and Fiona Shukri
- • March 25, 2020
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Afghan women’s inclusion in the current peace negotiations with the Taliban and the United States has become an international cause célèbre. But calls for participation of Afghan women without methodical, sustained and substantive engagement in a peace settlement has the potential …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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