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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • November 26, 2021
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
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • 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….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite
- • May 6, 2014
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, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 6, 2014
 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