Women

‘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 …

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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 …

Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, Women

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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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Hungary Forbids Gender Studies, Enraging Academics

August 14, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

In the doldrums of a European summer, when many universities are mostly closed or short-staffed, the populist Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban sent a directive to higher-education institutions on Aug. 9 forbidding the teaching of gender studies. Hungarian academicians, faculties outside the country as well as civil society organizations reacted quickly, calling …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Women

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Michelle Bachelet of Chile Nominated to Be Next UN Rights Commissioner

August 8, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has nominated Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile, to become the next UN high commissioner for human rights. The nomination has been sent to the General Assembly for approval. Bachelet, who is 66, was Guterres’s top choice all along in the selection process, which began informally in the …

Human Rights, Secretary-General, Women

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Women’s Roles as UN Peacekeepers: A Status Report

August 7, 2018

by Kacie Candela

Women have historically been underrepresented across the United Nations system, but notably in peacekeeping, one of the most highly visible activities of the world body. And while the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations publishes monthly data on troop- and police-contributing countries, by missions and by gender, the numbers are not easily comprehensible. There are …

Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, Women

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Backing Up Women With Facts and Figures

July 16, 2018

by Sarah Friedmann

In 2001, a pair of academics at Brigham Young University in Utah aimed to identify data linking the status of women to the security and behavior of countries. Seventeen years later, what began as a single article has evolved into a vital, comprehensive global database, offering insights into women’s lives in 176 countries. Meet the …

Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Six Women, Including This Ghanaian, Join the UN’s Disability Committee

June 15, 2018

by Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame

When I was growing up in Ghana, if someone had told me that one day I would hear my name announced as a member of a United Nations treaty body, I would hardly have believed it. But this is where I find myself, after many years of personal and professional experience fighting for disability …

Disabilities, Women

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Nigerian Women in African Migration, Vulnerable and Abused

June 11, 2018

by Joanne Myers

Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist based in Rome, covering the large refugee migrations from the Middle East and Africa since 2011, often with an emphasis on women. She has recently written a book, “Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast,” zeroing in on a huge increase in the …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Human Trafficking, Migration, Women

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‘Don’t Try to Be a Superwoman’: An Interview With Michelle Bachelet

May 31, 2018

by Dulcie Leimbach

Michelle Bachelet ended her second term as president of Chile on March 11, 2018. Her first term, from 2006 to 2010, was marked by an ambitious social and economic agenda advancing women’s rights and better health care. Her cabinet of ministers, for example, was composed of an equal number of men and women, as …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Latin America, Women

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Deconstructing Power: The Global Prevalence of Gender Violence

May 19, 2018

by Ladan Osman

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

Women’s Rights Predicted to Advance in New US Congress

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

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

Rape in Peru: Stopping a Deadly Epidemic

Hungary Forbids Gender Studies, Enraging Academics

Michelle Bachelet of Chile Nominated to Be Next UN Rights Commissioner

Women’s Roles as UN Peacekeepers: A Status Report

Backing Up Women With Facts and Figures

Six Women, Including This Ghanaian, Join the UN’s Disability Committee

Nigerian Women in African Migration, Vulnerable and Abused

‘Don’t Try to Be a Superwoman’: An Interview With Michelle Bachelet

Deconstructing Power: The Global Prevalence of Gender Violence

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

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