gender discrimination Archives

Changing the Minds of Youths to Stop India’s Extreme Bias Against Girls

March 5, 2018February 26, 2018 by Ariel Sophia Bardi

HARYANA, India — In 2014, Breakthrough India, an independent human-rights organization, launched a program to tackle gender discrimination throughout 150 schools in Haryana, one of India’s most gender-biased states. A 2011 census showed that Haryana, a primarily agricultural state bordering Delhi in northern India, had the worst child-sex ratio in the country, with only 830 … Read more

GEOPOLITICS

Janet Benshoof, Legal Activist, Seeks Help for Burma Through the Global Court

October 25, 2017October 8, 2017 by Barbara Crossette

Photo of Janet Benshoof, a lawyer-activist, leads the Global Justice Center in New York.

Burma has long been a unique country not only for its otherworldly landscape of pagodas and gold-topped stupas but also, paradoxically, as an isolated country where a nationalistic military has given itself extraordinary constitutional powers. Generals, who have warped the country’s Buddhist heritage over half a century, can now attack the Muslim-majority Rohingya people with … Read more

The Situation for Women and Girls Around the World? Stark.

October 11, 2015September 24, 2015 by Tendai Musakwa

As the United Nations prepares to formally accept the new Sustainable Development Goals at midday at a summit meeting on Friday, here is a close look at one of the main resources that helped inform the long debate on creating the goals — the UN Development Program’s Human Development Report for 2014. What do the … Read more

WORLDVIEWS

Applying a Global Treaty on Gender Equality to American Cities

April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 by Karen Mulhauser

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every year at the United Nations, the Commission on the Status of Women brings together an impressive array of global leaders to publicly state their support for gender equality. This year’s meeting, occurring in March, was no different, with 8,000 attendees reiterating their support to ending gender inequality and discrimination around the … Read more

UN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 2014

Putting Women and Girls at the Center of the Future Development Goals

May 17, 2014March 24, 2014 by Dulcie Leimbach

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, chief of UN Women

What happened at the annual United Nations women’s conference this year? Over 10 days of both mercifully brief and far-too-long speeches by policy people, government ministers, UN staff members and a wide array of other experts, the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women ended on a hush. It was as if everyone … Read more

WORLDVIEWS

War Crimes Against Women and Girls Must Be Prosecuted

May 17, 2014November 4, 2013 by Navi Pillay

Three children walk to clean dishes in the Niger river in Gao, Mali.

There is now overwhelming evidence that conflicts exacerbate pre-existing gender discrimination and put women and girls at heightened risk of sexual, physical and psychological violence. One appalling example of this evidence is the report recently to the Human Rights Council by the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which highlights the threat and use … Read more