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At the UN, Mexico Works for Women’s Rights. Back Home It’s a Different Story.

March 29, 2021

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. Beginning in Mexico City on March 29-31 and culminating in Paris in early July, the …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Women

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In Kurdistan and Beyond, Honor Killings Remind Women They Are Worthless

May 6, 2014

by Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite

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 experts, including United Nations personnel. We were told by a Kurdish man here that women …

Gender-Based Violence, WORLDVIEWS

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Mexico Rising: Advances in Women’s Health and Rights

February 6, 2014

by Barbara Crossette

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 strides that the country has made in promoting women’s rights in recent years, powered by …