Donor Direct Action
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2022
Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human-rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer, was there, advancing the rights…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 6, 2021
Jessica Neuwirth, a pivotal force in promoting and supporting the rights of women and girls worldwide, was appointed to the rank of chevalier in the French Legion of Honor by the French government in a ceremony in New York…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 20, 2018
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Justine Masika Bihamba
- • July 26, 2018
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been placed on the United Nations Security Council agenda for several decades, in one form or another through various peacekeeping missions. The Council regularly meets on the status of the Congo, with the…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 5, 2013
Recognizing that women in the Middle East and North Africa must play an active role in their countries’ political processes, especially amid the regional backdrop of upheavals and conflicts, the Netherlands government is providing money for a new program,…
- Categories: Middle East, Women