Equality Now
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 6, 2021
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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
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- Opinion by Simone Filippini
- • February 23, 2021
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António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, announced early last month that he would seek a second five-year term, starting in January 2022, as the organization’s highest official, “if it would be the will of the member states.” The respective presidents…
- Categories: OPINIONS, SDGs, Secretary-General
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2020
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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
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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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
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Burma has long been a unique country not only for its otherworldly landscape of pagodas and gold-topped stupas but also, paradoxically, as an isolated country where a nationalistic military has given itself extraordinary constitutional powers. Generals, who have warped…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
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- Opinion by Antonia Kirkland
- • June 21, 2017
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Unwed fathers and mothers may not be treated differently in determining whether their children born overseas can claim American citizenship, the United States Supreme Court has recently ruled. This means that all children born to an unmarried American parent,…
- Categories: Human Rights, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Opinion by Antonia Kirkland
- • May 25, 2017
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Recently in northern India, a five-months pregnant 10-year-old girl was forced to go to court to request an abortion after conceiving as a result of being repeatedly raped by her stepfather. Indian law does not allow terminating a pregnancy…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 28, 2017
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More than two decades have passed since a series of dynamic international conferences in the 1990s — on human rights, reproductive choices and broad empowerment for women — inspired and encouraged women around the world to raise their hopes…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 11, 2015
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Almost 20 years have passed since the genital mutilation of girls has been outlawed in the United States, but the traditional practice has continued to grow ever faster in recent years with increased immigration from parts of Africa where…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 30, 2015
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Has Russia put the kibosh on the chances that the next secretary-general of the United Nations will be a woman? As Vitaly Churkin walked ramrod-straight in his dark suit to a working-group discussion at the UN on the process…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 9, 2012
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With only three years left to reach an ambitious global deadline, tracking the eight Millennium Development Goals often seems like going around in circles. Perhaps no goal is better evidence of this than Goal 3: promote gender equality and…
- Categories: Women
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