gender discrimination
- Ariel Sophia Bardi
- • February 26, 2018
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, India, Poverty
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2017
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…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Human Rights, International Justice
- Tendai Musakwa
- • September 24, 2015
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…
- Categories: Governance, Health and Population, Latin America, Middle East, Poverty, SDGs, Women
- Karen Mulhauser
- • April 10, 2015
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…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 24, 2014
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…
- Categories: Women
- Navi Pillay
- • November 4, 2013
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
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