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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 26, 2021
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UN envoy for Libya resigns; older women’s rights forgotten by the General Assembly; UN staff’s dependents to leave Ethiopia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the organization. The information is gathered from UN…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Libya, This Week @UN, UN Special Envoys
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- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 29, 2021
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Mexico and France are hosting a United Nations forum that aims to accelerate the agenda laid out 26 years ago at the landmark Beijing women’s conference: securing equal rights and equal opportunities for half the population of the world….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Opinion by Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite
- • May 6, 2014
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KURDISTAN, Iraq — For many women in Kurdistan, life is anything but honorable. We have come to this autonomous region in northern Iraq as social anthropologists to research violence against women — particularly, honor killings — by interviewing local…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 6, 2014
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 When the latest list of 20 top donors to UN Women appeared last year, there was only one country outside the richer nations of the world among them: Mexico. The Mexican commitment to the women’s agency reflects the…
- Categories: Human Rights, Latin America, Women
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