gender-based violence
- Susana Malcorra
- • November 7, 2022
The deterioration of women’s rights across the world is enabling more gender-based violence. Even those who strive to defend and even expand their privileges at the exclusion of others recognize that half the global population suffers inequalities and injustice….
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 12, 2021
Human-rights advocates around the world are assessing how much lasting damage could still be done to universal human rights after the four-year assault from the Trump administration. Although the Trump years ended with the swearing-in of President Joe Biden…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 15, 2018
Negotiations in the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee, which concentrates on disarmament, caused a Twitter row late last week after wording on gender stirred up strong feelings between powerful nongovernmental organizations and Britain, surprising other countries as well….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament
- Melanne Verveer and Zainab Bangura
- • October 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad, a human-rights activist from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, and to Denis Mukwege, a Congolese physician, for their fight against sexual violence as a weapon of war….
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Gustavo Macedo
- • June 18, 2018
Historically neglected, gender-based violence is now becoming broadly recognized as a legitimate and urgent agenda item among the United Nations member nations, notably in the UN’s most powerful forum, the Security Council. But the future of the agenda is…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Responsibility to Protect, SDGs, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 14, 2018
Canada’s national health system, the envy of many people in other countries, including in the United States, is being more scrutinized from Canadians as reports reveal serious health-service gaps in the territory of Nunavut, a self-governing province populated by…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 21, 2017
BJNI, Armenia — The riverside village of Bjni possesses all the ingredients to blossom into a tourist haven for visitors new to this landlocked country in the South Caucasus and for Armenians themselves. What visitors don’t see right away…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 17, 2017
The study of violent extremism and what attracts people to become jihadists has been expanding rapidly in social sciences, but what is little known is why people avoid or leave a violent movement. It is a field that is…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Middle East
- Antonia Kirkland
- • May 25, 2017
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, SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Johanna Higgs
- • December 28, 2016
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — On the outskirts of the capital here, it is dark and loud in a makeshift bar as Congolese music blares across the room. When we ask two patrons if children are there, they point…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty
- Anjali Manivannan
- • October 10, 2016
Rape is prevalent in many armed conflicts around the world today. Government security forces, nonstate militias and violent extremists use rape as a weapon of war. Women and girls are disproportionately targeted for such attacks and many endure the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite
- • April 6, 2016
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Amima and Fatima Jebari are Syrian sisters who fled last year to the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, after the Free Syrian Army entered their village in the north, they said, and…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Middle East, Refugees, Women
- Julienne Lusenge
- • December 31, 2015
In the developed world, women fought and struggled to gain their rights and eventually created a space in which these rights could be expressed. Violence does indeed occur in the developed world, but it cannot be compared to what…
- Categories: SDGs, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 13, 2015
In the few months remaining before a new set of development goals are set to be adopted in the United Nations to replace the Millennium Development Goals, specialists in many fields will be drilling down into why some of…
- Categories: Education, Gender Violence, Human Rights, SDGs
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