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UN Chief Condemns Male Privilege as Many Nations Defy Such Bashing

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 colonialism were a stain on previous centuries, women’s inequality should shame us all in the …

Gender-Based Violence, Secretary-General, Women

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Feminists Rev Up for Beijing+25 Reviews as the US Resists

January 26, 2020

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

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 Action was ratified at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. That document was …

Gender-Based Violence, US-UN Relations, Women

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The US Backs the UN on Women’s Rights and Family Planning

November 18, 2013

by PassBlue

Speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the third international conference on family planning, Anne C. Richard, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, urged strong support for United Nations efforts to promote the rights of women and girls, including universal access to family planning, as the organization frames new …

Health and Population, Women

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The US Backs the UN on Women’s Rights and Family Planning

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