gender inequality
- Margot Wallström
- • March 19, 2023
Recently, I attended a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA. It is the first such hearing in the United States Senate since 1984, and this year marks the 100th anniversary since the ERA was…
- Categories: Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 17, 2023
This week, we focus on countries with enduring humanitarian disasters, plus big news from the International Criminal Court on Russia. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, ICC, Myanmar, Secretary-General, This Week @UN, Ukraine-Russia War
- Michelle Langrand
- • March 14, 2023
Iran’s crackdown on women’s rights protests that erupted in September, and the Taliban recently banning women from working in nongovernmental organizations or from attending university have served as a reminder of how fast women’s rights are sliding back in…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 10, 2023
Just because it was International Women’s Day on March 8, we focus on women all week! Why not? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is culled from UN press…
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 9, 2023
Although nobody knows exactly what a feminist foreign policy should look like, numerous countries continue to adopt the banner ever since it originated in Sweden, in 2014, when Margot Wallstrom, the foreign minister at the time, announced the pioneering…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Habiba Sarabi
- • March 7, 2023
Today is International Women’s Day, a celebration of the achievements of women. It is also another day of Afghan women and girls living under Taliban rule, fearful of which freedoms will be stripped from them next. For decades, women’s…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 6, 2023
Nordic countries may be gender progressive globally, but they quickly admit they have not figured out how to combat the wide-ranging, rampant instances of gender-based violence online. They roundly acknowledge that the problem stems from what happens in the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Houry Geudelekian
- • March 5, 2023
As I reflect on my final year chairing the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, which organizes the forum parallel to the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, I wonder, How did I get here?…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS
- Damilola Banjo
- • March 2, 2023
Mozambique, the southern African nation with scenic beaches and islands, will focus on issues around security and terrorism as it leads the United Nations Security Council in March. This is the first time Mozambique has been an elected member…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Security Council Presidency, Terrorism, Ukraine-Russia War
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • February 28, 2023
In a follow-up to our recent analysis on the status of gender parity among United Nations senior-level appointments, which found that almost half of them replaced a woman with a man, we look now at the senior leadership of…
- Categories: UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • February 24, 2023
You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting and other sources. This week, we look at the humanitarian crises in Ukraine and another…
- Damilola Banjo
- • February 20, 2023
LAGOS — A women-focused organization is seeking to increase funding for Nigerian women who want to participate in politics. In a country with only 6.4 percent of women taking active roles in public office, the organization understands the challenges…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Women
- Chloé Cosson
- • February 12, 2023
My grandmother raised seven children as a housewife. After she died in 2011, my mother inherited a bag full of cassette tapes. That’s when I remembered what I had heard before: my grandmother volunteered as a radio host on…
- Categories: UN Agencies, Women
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 22, 2023
Beatrice Fihn, a 40-year-old Swede, grew up wanting to make a big difference in humanity, but she did not know how she could do that. First, she thought she would “stitch people up” after they suffered an accident or…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Women as Changemakers
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 11, 2023
Kimihiro Ishikane, Japan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, expressed frustration with the Security Council’s lack of consensus on North Korea’s unabating missile tests. Ishikane is the monthly rotating president of the Council in January, and he conveyed his…
- Categories: Asia, Security Council Presidency, Ukraine-Russia War
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