Beijing+25
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • December 31, 2020
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 3, 2020
The annual debate of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ended on Sept. 29, after a weeklong screening of prerecorded video speeches by 190 member states. The numbers were impressive: videos by 102 heads of state, 1…
- Categories: General Assembly, This Week @UN
- 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
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 5, 2020
The 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; the United States sanctions the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; dissecting the failed ambitions of the US effort to force the UN mission in Lebanon to be…
- Categories: Middle East, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Ellen Chesler
- • September 4, 2020
Twenty-five years ago, the United Nations hosted the largest gathering of women (and more than a few good men) in its 50-year history. Some 17,000 participants — among them, official government delegates, representatives of accredited nongovernmental organizations, international civil…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2020
UN Women is postponing two long-planned international meetings designed to give civil society groups a leading role in advancing gender rights 25 years after a landmark 1995 Beijing conference on women. The two sessions of the Global Equality Forum that…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 29, 2020
Another highlight of the year marking the 25th anniversary of a breakthrough international conference in Beijing on women’s rights has fallen victim to the global march of the new coronavirus, Covid-19. The event is the first of two global…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, Latin America
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 20, 2020
As the countdown to this year’s main events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women has begun, UN Women has announced six themes to anchor the two Generation Equality forums to be held in May and in…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Joanne Myers
- • December 11, 2019
On a busy day of a busy week and year, Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, spoke frankly in an interview about her role as the first woman to be appointed to this…
- Categories: US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 11, 2019
The surprising controversy over women in the sex trade — tangled in issues of legality, terminology and competing feminist visions — has produced an unequivocal statement from the executive director of UN Women that the agency is not taking…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 17, 2019
A group of civil society organizations is warning that a growing global movement to decriminalize and rebrand prostitution as “sex work” could lead to more, not less, violence against the world’s most vulnerable women and girls. The critics are…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
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