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Win or Lose, Trump’s Policies on Women’s Health Inflict Damage

February 25, 2020

Whether or not Donald Trump will be re-elected president on Nov. 3, a tough debate is likely to begin soon in the United States Congress over the national budget for the unpredictable year ahead. Reproductive health issues rank high on the agenda for women’s rights advocates. Trump’s proposed budget would continue to restrict funds …

Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Stolen Childhoods: The Girls of Ghana’s Lake Volta

February 12, 2020

by Kayla Stewart

KETE KRACHI, Ghana — To smoke a fish here, you need to first remove its skull. Then you insert a sharp knife into its stomach, slowly cutting a clean line across its belly to avoid flooding your hand with guts. Remove the intestines, bile and blood. Smother the fish in salt and place it above …

Africa, Gender-Based Violence, Human Trafficking

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Trump’s Dictator Buddies Across the World Are Not Friends of Women

February 4, 2020

by Barbara Crossette

In the gallery of authoritarian governments undercutting the rights of women and threatening democracy around the world, five nations stand out for a special reason. Donald Trump has made the leaders of Brazil, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey his friends and accomplices. In all of these countries, according to mounting evidence in numerous …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women

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Feminists Rev Up for Beijing+25 Reviews as the US Resists

January 26, 2020

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

This year will be an urgent moment for the United Nations and its 193 member countries to renew their commitment ensuring women’s equality in all walks of life. Twenty-five years have passed since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was ratified at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995. That document was …

Gender-Based Violence, US-UN Relations, Women

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The US Raises Its UN Profile, but Not Its Support

January 25, 2020

by Barbara Crossette

The naming of Jonathan Moore, a senior United States Foreign Service officer, to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, signals that in the United Nations’ 75th year, the Trump administration is getting serious. The move doesn’t mean that the US is increasing support for the organization, of course, or …

Gender-Based Violence, US-UN Relations

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Fannie Munlin, the Face of the African-American Community at the UN

January 23, 2020

by Dulcie Leimbach

Fannie Munlin has led a long life of helping others, making her a natural fit to chair the NGO Executive Committee, the liaison for the 1,600 civil society organizations affiliated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications. She is also “the face of the African-American community at the UN,” as she said, as …

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The UN Unveils 6 Themes in a Big Year Pushing for Women’s Rights

January 20, 2020

by Stéphanie Fillion

As the countdown to this year’s main events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women has begun, UN Women has announced six themes to anchor the two Generation Equality forums to be held in May and in July. While many women’s groups applaud the broad themes, some have serious qualms about one …

Gender-Based Violence, Women

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In Haiti, a Result of Peacekeepers Who Abuse Their Power: ‘Petits Minustahs’

January 16, 2020

by Susan A. Bartels

In Haiti, a young woman I’ll call Marie became involved with a United Nations peacekeeper from Brazil when she was 14 years old. She became pregnant. He was sent back to Brazil; she was ostracized by her family. In 2017, when our research team met with Marie, she said that she and her son, …

UN Peacekeeping, Women

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Despite Years of Pledges and Plans, Gender Gaps Persist on a Global Scale

January 14, 2020

by Barbara Crossette

In health care, political participation, economic advancement, personal safety and justice, women across the world may be advancing on some fronts in various places. At the start of a new decade, however, the realities on a global scale are far from meeting promises made in past years. On March 9, when delegations from United …

Health and Population, Take a Look, Women

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The Topic Was the UN Charter, but the Backdrop Was a Just-Averted US-Iran War

January 9, 2020

by Dulcie Leimbach

Six days after the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani of Iran by the United States and high-wire threats sent between President Trump and top officials of Iran, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council and other nations finally had a chance to speak about the fight in an open forum. As …

Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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The Top 10 PassBlue Stories of 2019: From Strongmen to Sexual Harassment

December 31, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

Once again, 2019 marked incredible upheaval and change across the world, just as 2018 did so universally, signaled by the continued rise in nationalism and revolts by women against repression and violence in their daily lives. Reporting on how United Nations member states — all 193 of them — acted in 2019 was a …

Gender-Based Violence, Geopolitics, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

My Beautiful Christmas in Kabul

December 24, 2019

by Fiona Shukri

The Christmas spirit finally found me drinking whisky on a rooftop in Kabul. Given my multinational background — I’m from Boston but my father came from Iraq and my mother from London — it’s not surprising that I chose a career in foreign affairs. When people learn I spent nearly a decade in Afghanistan, …

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China’s UN Playground & Talking Gender With the UN’s Rosemary DiCarlo: Our Latest Episode

December 23, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

This year was a big one for China, and 2020 is likely to be much the same — if not more intense, given the range of issues involving the United States and far beyond. For our last episode of the year, UN-Scripted looks at how China’s rise internationally is reflected at the United Nations. …

Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Special Envoys

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‘Sextortion’: The Worst Form of Corruption Across the Globe

December 13, 2019

by Frank Vogl

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than a year, a BBC television team went undercover at the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana, where young female students are routinely extorted by professors. They are vulnerable because they either seek to gain admission to the universities or to secure good grades to allow them …

Gender-Based Violence, Human Trafficking, WORLDVIEWS

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Rosemary DiCarlo, the Top-Ranking American at the UN, Describes Her Work Crisscrossing the World

December 11, 2019

by Joanne Myers

On a busy day of a busy week and year, Rosemary DiCarlo, the United Nations under secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, spoke frankly in an interview about her role as the first woman to be appointed to this position and as the highest-ranking American now serving the UN. DiCarlo discussed the challenges and …

US-UN Relations, Women

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gender equality

Win or Lose, Trump’s Policies on Women’s Health Inflict Damage

Stolen Childhoods: The Girls of Ghana’s Lake Volta

Trump’s Dictator Buddies Across the World Are Not Friends of Women

Feminists Rev Up for Beijing+25 Reviews as the US Resists

The US Raises Its UN Profile, but Not Its Support

Fannie Munlin, the Face of the African-American Community at the UN

The UN Unveils 6 Themes in a Big Year Pushing for Women’s Rights

In Haiti, a Result of Peacekeepers Who Abuse Their Power: ‘Petits Minustahs’

Despite Years of Pledges and Plans, Gender Gaps Persist on a Global Scale

The Topic Was the UN Charter, but the Backdrop Was a Just-Averted US-Iran War

The Top 10 PassBlue Stories of 2019: From Strongmen to Sexual Harassment

My Beautiful Christmas in Kabul

China’s UN Playground & Talking Gender With the UN’s Rosemary DiCarlo: Our Latest Episode

‘Sextortion’: The Worst Form of Corruption Across the Globe

Rosemary DiCarlo, the Top-Ranking American at the UN, Describes Her Work Crisscrossing the World

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