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- Ellen Chesler
- • October 13, 2018
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From 1975 to 1995, the United Nations sponsored four international conferences on women that produced wildly optimistic blueprints for concrete gains. Some people dismiss these forums and the programs for action that they generated as lacking strategies to carry them …
- Categories: BOOKS, Development, Gender Violence
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 22, 2016
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As the Commission on the Status of Women convenes to tackle 21st-century feminist issues, Margaret Snyder — “Peg” to almost everyone who has met her — can take a long view of the history of women in the United Nations system, …
- Categories: Africa, Development, Women
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- Opinion by Yasmine Ergas
- • December 17, 2013
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Gender is at the center of international agendas, not at their periphery. Today, plans in Sochi for the forthcoming Olympics — the emblem of international cooperation — are riven by disputes over Russia’s policies toward lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender persons. Peacemakers in the …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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