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GENDER EQUALITY
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 24, 2019
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“Hold the line” was the frequent refrain heard during the contentious negotiations swirling around the annual meeting at the United Nations ensuring the rights of women. Delegates from the UN’s 193 countries were urged by conference leaders to remain steadfast …
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 19, 2019
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Ana Menéndez is a former Spanish diplomat who oversees the gender parity strategy at the United Nations, working directly for Secretary-General António Guterres for a year and a half now on one of his main priorities at the institution. Menéndez is …
- Categories: Secretary-General, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 7, 2019
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More than 10,000 people will soon converge on the United Nations for its annual Commission on the Status of Women conference, providing a unique forum to gauge progress and to press for the rights of women and marginalized populations around …
- Categories: Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Kacie Candela
- • February 25, 2019
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The scarcity of female experts that journalists can readily rely on for objective, accurate information for reporting on an international news story couldn’t be clearer: 81 percent of experts interviewed for global news stories were men, according to a 2015 …
- Categories: Journalists, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 21, 2019
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As multilateralism takes a beating from President Trump amid the “new world disorder,” as one European diplomat put it, three women who know the United Nations inside and out through previous top leadership jobs have originated a Group of Women …
- Categories: SDGs, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Rhona Scullion
- • February 20, 2019
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NOTTINGHAM, England — It has been more than two and a half years since Britain voted to leave the European Union. As the rest of the world knows, nothing since then has gone smoothly. It’s not even clear where most …
- Categories: Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • February 13, 2019
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ISHKASHIM, Afghanistan — I entered the country from the northeast, from Tajikistan, where I had been traveling for a month, researching the lives of women, as I have been doing across the world for years. From the small town of …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Kacie Candela
- • January 29, 2019
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More than two decades have passed since the United Nations General Assembly approved the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which encourages countries to protect people who fight for human rights around the world. So why has the situation deteriorated, especially …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 15, 2019
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As many political analysts see democracy weakened by introverted, xenophobic parties and autocratic leaders, a glimmer of hope is offered by a new generation of candidates and voters. This year will test that optimism in a series of important elections …
- Categories: Governance, Women
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 13, 2019
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Improving the lives of women is woven into each of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, markers that all 193 member states aim to reach by 2030. Goal 5 is quite specific: nothing short of gender equality. Attaining this …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 6, 2019
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Amid a busy December, when the United Nations was focusing on important conferences on climate change and migration and year-end holidays loomed, a case of harassment that never got the traction it arguably deserved ended in a traditional UN way: …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach and Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 12, 2018
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The nomination of Heather Nauert to succeed Nikki Haley as United States ambassador to the United Nations has quickly enraged some international women’s rights groups and a major Islamic advocacy organization based in the United States, portending a tense confirmation …
- Categories: Human Rights, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Irwin Arieff
- • November 24, 2018
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So many nonprofits seem to be after your money these days. Even if you are eager to give it away, you want to be convinced that a given group is the most deserving. But how can you tell when a …
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- Maria Luisa Gambale and Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • November 20, 2018
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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 …
- Categories: Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 13, 2018
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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 …
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, Women
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