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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 2, 2020
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, General Assembly, Women
- Foteini Papagioti and Paul von Chamier
- • September 30, 2020
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…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Careers, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 29, 2020
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,…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • September 10, 2020
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…
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2020
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 26, 2020
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…
- Categories: Security Council, US Foreign Relations, Women
- Samea Shanori and Fiona Shukri
- • March 25, 2020
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2020
This year was intended to be a celebratory time for women: the 25th anniversary of the momentous Beijing conference on women’s rights and how to advance them. It isn’t working out that way, however, as a global health crisis…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • March 6, 2020
Nearly 700 people, many of them young adults and students, flocked to the United Nations recently to attend an all-day gathering on “War No More.” Who were they eager to see and hear? The global feminist icon Gloria Steinem…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 4, 2020
With International Women’s Day, March 8, on the horizon, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres blasted the intractable power of patriarchy, the cause of overwhelming gender injustice and an abuse of historical proportions, in his view. “Just as slavery and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 27, 2020
From the start, the diplomats leading the negotiations on the new political declaration for the United Nations’ women’s rights conference in March wanted to keep it short and sweet. That meant five pages maximum, one diplomat told PassBlue before…
- Categories: Gender Violence, SDGs, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 25, 2020
Whether or not Donald Trump will be re-elected president on Nov. 3, a tough debate is likely to begin soon in the United States Congress over the national budget for the unpredictable year ahead. Reproductive health issues rank high…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 4, 2020
In the gallery of authoritarian governments undercutting the rights of women and threatening democracy around the world, five nations stand out for a special reason. Donald Trump has made the leaders of Brazil, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 26, 2020
This year will be an urgent moment for the United Nations and its 193 member countries to renew their commitment ensuring women’s equality in all walks of life. Twenty-five years have passed since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 23, 2020
Fannie Munlin has led a long life of helping others, making her a natural fit to chair the NGO Executive Committee, the liaison for the 1,600 civil society organizations affiliated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications. She…
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